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I thought you might enjoy a biting story about my Blue-fronted Amazon, Pepper. When I first got Pepper as an adult, he followed me into my kitchen and saw some paper grocery bags. He said, “Put the bird in a sack.” I called his former owner and she confirmed that Pepper loved to be put in a paper sack and rocked. Several days later he was out of his cage while I was cleaning it. Sitting on the hearth of the fireplace he called out, “Put the bird in a sack!” “No, not now,” I replied. With more feeling he again stated, “Put the bird in a sack!!!” Being very much in a hurry I told him, “No, later.” In a flash he charged off the hearth, grabbed me in the leg, and through clenched beak muttered, “Put the bird in a sack!!!!!” He bit through a pair of jeans, long johns, and a pair of wool socks. (This was Fairbanks, Alaska in winter.) That was over 10 years ago, and I still have the scar. His bite has to register pretty high on the bite-o-meter.
Politically correct bird terminology from the Exotic-L Internet mailing list.
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