Feathered Members

Ziggy is a 10-year-old blue crown conure that I got from Connie W.  A year later I got Pepper and  their cages were next to  each other in the bird room. I must have asked Pepper what she was doing a lot, as whenever Ziggy sees me, she constantly asks "Whacha doin Pepper?".  It doesn't matter that I just answered her 10 seconds earlier.  She is another example of being careful what you wish for when you want a bird that talks, as my example of "Whacha doin Pepper?" "Mommy's cleaning Pepper's cage." "Whacha doin Pepper?" "Mommy's cleaning Ziggy's cage." "Whacha doin Pepper?" "Mommy's giving Cheeky some food.", etc. gets the point across, and sometimes she'll say it loud enough for the kids to hear before she comes out of her carrier.

(an addition to Kirby - Jon was in trouble for 1.5 years as Kirby would grant permission for him to do something/go somewhere or make promises that Jon would do something for me and neither of us realized it was Kirby making the promise/granting permission until one day we were outside the bird room and one of us asked the other a question and Kirby answered correctly in the opposite voice; after that we required two differing answers to any question just to be safe.)

Dottie