British schoolboy reunited with missing pet chicken thanks to Twitter user in America

A schoolboy has been reunited with his missing pet chicken thanks to a Twitter user in America. Tom Cowley, aged 11, found himself asking the age-old question ‘why did the chicken cross the road?’ after discovering Ginger just meters from his home in Park View, Moulton. It turned out the Gingernut Ranger hen had simply crossed the A43 after escaping from the family’s garden.

But it took three days for Moulton School pupil Tom to be reunited with his pet, thanks to social media website Twitter. Tom’s mother, Louise, who runs a bakery business, said: “It was amazing. I was so sad I tweeted on my business account and a follower in America picked it up and retweeted it. We did look for her and asked neighbors but we’d given up.”

Two days after the search began, the retweet was seen by Catherine Inglis, founder of a website created to reunite lost pets with their owners. Catherine contacted Louise through the social media website and created posters, which Tom put up near the family’s home. One of the posters was spotted by Emma Maloret, a nursery worker at Tiny Horizons nursery, on the opposite side of the busy A43 in Park View.

Emma knew Ginger was safe in the nursery’s small farm, after a neighbor had alerted them thinking it was one of theirs. Tom was finally reunited with Ginger last Wednesday. Louise said: “It’s hilarious really. We’re absolutely delighted.”