This is why if you are having an affair with someone, you give that person a different name when you are talking about him/her with others.
Maybe there's a more innocent explanation. Maybe Gary was getting it on with the parrot instead of Suzy.
Wait, that's not innocent at all, is it?
This story tastes like it is about to be debunked on snopes.
There are worse things a parrot could say under these circumstances.
Top of my list would be: "I want to do it too, Gary, but where would we hide the body?"
Stop licking the story, Mr. Knick.
Note to self: Buy birdcage cover
African greys are really smart.
They've been witnesses to murders.
They've even been been kidnapped to prevent them from testifying
"I wasn't sorry to see the back of Suzy after what she did, but it really broke my heart to let Ziggy go," he said.
Sounds like the line from a Bob Dylan song.
....And when finally the bottom fell out
I became withdrawn,
The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin' on like a bird that flew,
Tangled up in blue.
I'm not sure people should own birds.
Poor ol' Zig. He was just keepin' it real.
Why are you not sure people should own birds, petebest? It's not like Ziggy was put down--he was rehomed. Birds respend to emotions and do what they can to get a reaction. In this case, Ziggy was repeating the name to get a reaction. Through positive reinforcement the owner could have redirected Ziggy's attention, but he made the choice to give up the bird.
Yeah hopefully Zig's at least as happy or better. I like birds, and have known some cool ones, but - y'know they don't get to fly around outside and stuff like that. Kinda antithetical to being a bird, or so I would imagine.
*notices thread title*
Beau'iful plumage!!
Monkeyfilter: Not Sorry To See The Back Of Suzy
Foolish Suzy. Didn't she saw The Flinstones?
My next-door neighbour has a very friendly parrot on the small garden by her front door. 'Heeeellloooo!' it says to anybody that passes by. Some kids attempted to teach it to curse to no avail.
Of late, it has begun to repeat a male name. Afaik, the elderly owner has no male relatives visiting. Mmmh...
Would that that were the norm, patita.
Admittedly the argument is a slippery slope - you could say the same about dogs perhaps.
Through positive reinforcement the owner could have redirected Ziggy's attention, but he made the choice to give up the bird.
Yeah, when I read this I hoped that the guy had tried training Ziggy to say other stuff first. It might have even been therapeutic (at first, anyway) to hear Ziggy cursing out Gary and Suzy, for example.
At least the parrot wasn't saying 'Oooh, it's much bigger than Chris's...'
SQUAWK!!
Eh... dogs can't fly.
Slightly more info here."I'm surprised to hear he's got rid of that bloody bird," Collins was quoted as saying. "He spent more time talking to it than he did to me."
The plot thickens.
(And I'm also amazed to see the word 'Loquacious' in an American headline.)
I'm not satisfied with this story so far. When does Suzy get her comeuppance by being hit by a bus? Where's the bit where Chris starts a 'friendship' with Ziggy's new owner, the Swedish aerobics instructor and part-time lingerie model? I need closure, here.
"...but when I looked at Suzy I could tell something was up. Her face was like beet root, and she started to cry."
Must everything be couched in beet root similes these days?
Behold! The Mighty Beet! It Doth Smile Upon Us All!
They've been witnesses to murders.
They've even been been kidnapped to prevent them from testifying