-=> Quoting Sue Hathaway to Pete Hopping <=-
 PH> I just watched the PBS show "Nature" segment on Parrots again, for the
 PH> third time. There's an African Grey (I think...) in there making the
 PH> "passing gas" sound. Hmmm...I wear hearing-aids and at times they make
 PH> feedback squeals. I hope my parrot doesn't pick that up (when I get my
 PH> parrot, that is...) as it tends to drive people batty...and I'd have
 PH> trouble knowing if it was me or the parrot squealing. :)
 SH> Yeah, that was what he was doing all right! Anything
 SH> embarrass- ing, gross or naughty, they seem to pick up right
 SH> away! But this dang guy will NOT say "I love you" for anything!
 SH> He does do an annoying series of household sounds though... the
 SH> smoke alarm (which he always does when the oven's on for some
 SH> reason... Mom's a rotten cook?)  He does a car alarm,
 SH> microwave beep, computer error beep, bicycle tire pump (that one
 SH> really sends your nerve endings into orbit!), etc.
Heh heh...perverse, huh? :)
 PH> Lots of "for sale" ads in the local paper again from people trying to
 PH> get rid of various parrots. One ad has a moluccan 'too and cage for
 PH> $500. Makes me wonder what's wrong with the 'too, or what's wrong with
 PH> the owners.
 SH> Hmmm, that doesn't sound good at all... i've seen Moluccans as
 SH> high as $3,000 around here. The cage alone would be $500. Maybe
 SH> they found out he has a terminal illness or something. Cockatoos
 SH> are cuddly darlings, but they can also be pretty destructive and
 SH> de- manding of attention. Hopefully that was all that was wrong
 SH> with that poor critter.
I was going to call the people and find out, but I didn't get around
to it and the ad disappeared after a couple of days.
 PH> BTW did you see the CBS news story on Ebola last week where they said
 PH> that some researchers in SC theorize that Ebola cycles through birds?
 SH> Yipes, no, i didn't! There was an article in National
 SH> Geographic a couple years ago about the influenza virus... part
 SH> of its cycle it passes through domestic animals like pigs and
Yeah, I remember the "swine flu" panic back in the '70's. The news thing
about birds and Ebola was a passing comment at the end of a story on
a research breakthrough on the Ebola virus's protien coat...but the
bird thing is just a theory and not proven.
 SH> -!- GEcho 1.00
 SH>  ! Origin: Slings & Arrows BBS - St. Louis, Mo. -  (1:100/205.0)
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