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Cockatoo reenacts previous owners' arguments
Odd_News ^ | Feb. 10, 2015 | Ben Hooper

Posted on 02/10/2015 12:11:45 PM PST by Brother Cracker

RALEIGH, N.C.- A North Carolina woman who bought a cockatoo from a divorcing couple said the bird keeps reenacting its former owners' arguments.

Elaine Sigmon said she and her husband, Don, recently obtained Peaches the Moluccan cockatoo from a couple who separated and the former owners apparently weren't shy about having arguments in front of the bird.

Sigmon said Peaches reenacts her former owners' squabbles "once or twice a day."


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: amish; cockatoo; divorce; moluccancockatoo; stress
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Peaches, The Cockatoo, Mimicking A Couple Arguing - VIDEO


1 posted on 02/10/2015 12:11:46 PM PST by Brother Cracker
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To: Brother Cracker

SQUAAWWK .. tiny dick .. tiny dick .. SQUAAWWK !


2 posted on 02/10/2015 12:15:26 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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To: Brother Cracker

Might be funny the first time.

After that it could lead to fried bird.


3 posted on 02/10/2015 12:19:20 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Brother Cracker

Wonder if the bird testified at the divorce. I also want to know how the new owners can deprogram him, I worry about his blood pressure.


4 posted on 02/10/2015 12:20:00 PM PST by Mjaye (Obama's chickens have come home to roost.)
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To: Brother Cracker

Most hilarious bird mimic I’ve seen ever. Sad at the same time, though, but fortunately those impressions tend to diminish over time if the bird doesn’t hear the source again.


5 posted on 02/10/2015 12:20:10 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Mjaye
I also want to know how the new owners can deprogram him

Fairly easily by surrounding him with different sounds.

6 posted on 02/10/2015 12:22:29 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Brother Cracker

That’s funny. I like the story about the English speaking parrot that disappeared, then showed up four years later speaking Spanish.


7 posted on 02/10/2015 12:23:27 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: steve86

And the body language is priceless.


8 posted on 02/10/2015 12:26:32 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: Brother Cracker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QkV4oiyNjg

Sometimes it turns out bad for the bird.


9 posted on 02/10/2015 12:34:39 PM PST by pa_dweller (If just one life can be saved, isn't CCW worth it?)
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To: Mjaye
Years ago I used to hang out at a bar on the Mississippi. There was a huge parrot in a cage there that had a pretty good vocabulary. It had been originally purchased by the family of a terminally ill young girl to cheer her up, and given away after she died. Unfortunately it had picked up her crying. It didn't do it often, but when it did it was an awful thing to hear.
10 posted on 02/10/2015 12:35:25 PM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: CrazyIvan

Damn


11 posted on 02/10/2015 12:38:25 PM PST by sparklite2
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To: Rusty0604

That’s the best part! Can’t make out what he’s saying but if this was scott peterson’s bird we would know where he buried the 4th wife.
This is a stool pigeon.


12 posted on 02/10/2015 12:39:36 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Brother Cracker

I once knew someone who raised birds and sold aviaries for a living. He had a Myna that talked prolifically. He used buy young parakeets and put them in the same room with it. Pretty soon they learned to speak from the Myna, and he could sell the talking parakeets for 3 to 4 times as much as he paid for non-talking parakeets.


13 posted on 02/10/2015 12:39:52 PM PST by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: Brother Cracker

That made me cringe...you could actually feel the hate. The bird needs to take an anger management class.


14 posted on 02/10/2015 12:46:47 PM PST by moovova
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To: Brother Cracker
Animated for sure. ...too funny.

Can't understand a single word.

15 posted on 02/10/2015 12:47:21 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: longfellow

LOL, like this, from the cat’s diary:

“The bird must be an informant. I observe him communicate with the guards regularly. I am certain that he reports my every move. My captors have arranged protective custody for him in an elevated cell, so he is safe. For now ...”


16 posted on 02/10/2015 12:49:01 PM PST by Rusty0604
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To: knarf

When I was a child, my grandparents had a parakeet (?? I think), that talked some, and sometimes it would go into a little conversation that was clearly grousing between Grandma and Grandpa. Then Grandma would cover the cage.


17 posted on 02/10/2015 12:52:11 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: moovova

The bird needs to teach an anger management class.


18 posted on 02/10/2015 12:52:47 PM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: longfellow

Drew Peterson. He’s the one with 4 wives. Scott Peterson just had Lacy.


19 posted on 02/10/2015 12:53:08 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: driftdiver

My former mother in law had friends who owned an African Gray. Everytime the wife went past its cage it said “bend over Doris”


20 posted on 02/10/2015 12:55:13 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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