R.I.P. Alex
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prosodicThis video just breaks my heart.
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3590688
Animal stories usually melt me much more than human stories. Maybe because I've always felt more of a connection with animals than I have with people. (Case in point: lately, whenever I make a grocery run, I buy carrots for the horses that live across the street. Lance picks on me mercilessly because of this, but I enjoy feeding them, and I love how one of them always snuggles his huge head against my chest.)
Anyway, this story about Alex just makes me incredibly sad...I used to have birds - not African Grey Parrots, mind you - but I've had budgies, zebra finches and doves in the past. Of these, Blue (my first budgie) was my favorite. She was a crochety old thing, and loved to snap at you if you got your fingers anywhere near her cage, but she had a favorite song (to this day, Mom and I reminisce about her whenever that song comes on the radio), and she lived to be 11 years old. I don't think budgies have such a long life span on average.
African Greys are just amazing creatures. I knew a guy once who had one. I was talking to him on the phone one day, and he had to step away from the phone for a minute, so he put the phone next to his African Grey, and it was talking to me while I was waiting for him to return.
It was certainly the most bizarre phone conversation I've ever had. ;)
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3590688
Animal stories usually melt me much more than human stories. Maybe because I've always felt more of a connection with animals than I have with people. (Case in point: lately, whenever I make a grocery run, I buy carrots for the horses that live across the street. Lance picks on me mercilessly because of this, but I enjoy feeding them, and I love how one of them always snuggles his huge head against my chest.)
Anyway, this story about Alex just makes me incredibly sad...I used to have birds - not African Grey Parrots, mind you - but I've had budgies, zebra finches and doves in the past. Of these, Blue (my first budgie) was my favorite. She was a crochety old thing, and loved to snap at you if you got your fingers anywhere near her cage, but she had a favorite song (to this day, Mom and I reminisce about her whenever that song comes on the radio), and she lived to be 11 years old. I don't think budgies have such a long life span on average.
African Greys are just amazing creatures. I knew a guy once who had one. I was talking to him on the phone one day, and he had to step away from the phone for a minute, so he put the phone next to his African Grey, and it was talking to me while I was waiting for him to return.
It was certainly the most bizarre phone conversation I've ever had. ;)
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Date: 2007-09-13 07:08 pm (UTC)I met Alex. He was in the same waiting room as I was when I took my little Pomeranian to the vet back in Chicago.
I enjoyed playing with him.
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Date: 2007-09-14 04:01 am (UTC)