Chicken Run Inspired Dog Names

One of the main characters in the movie Chicken Run is a Rhode Island Red hen named Ginger who has become the self-appointed leader of the chickens in the Tweedy chicken coop. She tends to be cautiously optimistic, and while she can be a bit abrupt, she cares a great deal for the other chickens, going so far as to attempt to hatch an escape plan that frees all of the chickens, not just herself. Ginger is also the name of a Golden Retriever in the Philipines, one who was unsocialized as a puppy and is generally at odds with any dog in her environment, but she tolerated the presence of the other Golden Retriever in the home, T-Bone. When her pet parents, Eric and Thea, began searching for a new dog to add to their family, they took Ginger with them to the shelter to meet the new dog. Unfortunately, Ginger rejected most of the dogs there, growling and snapping at them when they became too friendly. The pair nearly gave up, when a short, fat Cavalier King Charles Spaniel mix made a beeline through the crowd of dogs, straight to the couple. Ginger was unexpectedly friendly with the little dog, even stopping to check on her when they took a trial walk together. The blind spaniel was estimated to be around ten to twelve years old and had come to the shelter as a stray, found wandering the streets of a town named Alabang during a typhoon in 2012. 

Eric and Thea adopted the dog and named him Kimchi, and the two dogs immediately became fast friends, with the couple even tethering Kimchi to Ginger on occasion, to keep her from wandering off. Shortly after they began the practice of clipping the two together, Ginger, much like the character Ginger in Chicken Run, took charge. She began leading Kimchi around and helping to keep her safe, naturally playing the part of a seeing-eye dog to her blind pal. While the two are not kept tethered to each other in the home, where Kimchi is able to navigate the familiar surroundings, but whenever the dogs leave the house, they are paired together. The close friendship between the dogs has not only enriched their own lives, it has also helped to enrich the lives of many others as their bond has allowed them to blossom enough that the pair is often invited to work as therapy dogs, providing comfort to stressed-out students and corporate employees, as well as patients at hospitals, special needs centers, and nursing homes.