I suppose one of the downsides of having a pet is watching them make great strides in rather different directions than you would wish. Alphie the parrot came to us able to say "step up" (his command for getting on a finger): now, six months later, he can also say "What's up?", "What's that?", "Stop it," "Alphie, no!" "dammit," "brat", and (today's accomplishment, still a bit wobbly around the r) "You're a twit". As well as doing an imitation of water gurgling and an imitation of my laugh that makes him sound like a mad science-bird.
Other people get their birds to say stuff like "Polly wanna cracker" and "pretty bird". I am a bad bird-momma, I am.
In other news, I'm doing Novel in 90 again, so progress reports are hereby removed from here to there. But there is progress again, for now.
And if it's neither too hot nor too cold tomorrow we may kill hogs. So that's all right.
Other people get their birds to say stuff like "Polly wanna cracker" and "pretty bird". I am a bad bird-momma, I am.
In other news, I'm doing Novel in 90 again, so progress reports are hereby removed from here to there. But there is progress again, for now.
And if it's neither too hot nor too cold tomorrow we may kill hogs. So that's all right.
posted at 06:07 PM on 01/06/08
by kat -
Category: Animals
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April D. wrote:
Ahh, Kat - you may be a bad bird-momma, but you have a gift for humor - I always crack a big grin, if not actually laughing out loud, reading your blog. I love the way you interpret animals, and look forward to someday reading your book, in whatever voice you narrate it...
01/08/08 03:38 PM
April D. wrote:
So my husband walked by while I was commenting, and stopped to read your blog. He was laughing out loud at your bad bird-momma post, so I showed him the cow mob in the woods post, and he laughed so much reading that one that I showed him your October post, wherein you tell your new baby parrot to not remove ears, nose, etc. He was still laughing at the end of that post. Two fans, here. It's a beginning, eh?
01/08/08 03:55 PM
kat wrote:
Heh. Thanks, guys. I write this mostly for my own amusement and so I can remember my beasties later -- but it's good to hear that people find it funny from time to time. Audience is good for my ego. :)
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