Our Lovebird Loves Strawberries

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Strawberry seeds are yummy!

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Pets I’ve Had And The 6 We Have Now [With Video!]

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Thunder standing on things inside the 6 ft. fence.

Growing up I had a rabbit and at one point we had one and a half cats. The half is because the mama cat split her time between our house and the neighbor’s house across the field. They knew it and we knew, and we both loved her. Oh, and at one point I won a fish tank and fish from VBS; but they didn’t last long. That wasn’t too sad, though. We tried, but there was something with the water that wasn’t conducive to keeping fish alive and healthy.

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Our Zebra Finches aka I Brought Home More Birds

But they are just little birds, and they needed a home.

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Squeak & Pip

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Our Gray-Bird Talking

This is our Timneh African Gray Parrot named Grady, and a small percentage of what he says. We love the Peek-a-boo, I see you! and that was what I was trying to catch on video. I also managed to get some video of him waving – it’s toward the end of the following video.

 

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Our African Grey Parrot And His Free Toys

Our Timneh African Grey – Grady – enjoys playing with bottle caps of all shapes and sizes. Then he drops them on the floor and the dog chews them up. They become little scattered pieces of plastic or a chunk of mutilated plastic with sharp edges that really hurts when you step on them in bare feet. Kind of like legos…

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African Grey Parrot playing with a bottle cap

Another cheap parrot toy is an ice cube. See what Grady does with one in the video.

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