Oh yes, Rocky barks like a long dead dog. I've had people on the other end
of a phone conversation ask, WHAT in the world is wrong with that dog?"
Nancy
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, "Cherie Mascis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> African Grays and Amazon parrots love words spoken loudly and
emphatically and loud sound effects. They often pick up sounds like
things shouted on TV, cuss words, squeaky doors, barking dogs, bedroom
sounds
I can't remember everything Smokey says either, since she can recombine
words into phrases as she pleases. Smokey can answer, "What does a dog
say?" (Woof.) "What does the kitty say?" (Meow) "What does Crackers
say?" (wkkk - the happy macaw sound)
I should add that sometimes she li
Sometimes vets like to be negative, but I had one tell me that many of
them she saw didn't live past 8 or 9 years old.
I'd bet that's probably true. While they can live a long time, a notable
number escape, get injured by other pets, or get infections. And a lot of
people try to hand feed
> figures out that he does not like it, he will shake his head no when
> I offer it to him. He does have requests sometimes, when I put his
> food in the other day he said "Pasta?", it wasn't, but I went and
> bought him some, he also sometimes requests "Pizza" and "Want to eat
> some beans":)If I
--- In IceHorses@yahoogroups.com, "Karen Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>- so he's probably in the 25-30-ish year range, maybe even older. I
> was shocked when the avian vet told us that Crackers is the oldest
of his
> clients, and by a good bit. So, I'm pretty comfortable that Alex
was
