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Most of our pets have been four-footed.\u00a0 Shortly after we moved to Tucson, the children began asking for a bird.\u00a0\u00a0 We decided on a half moon parrot and named it Sam.<\/p>\n

Sam quickly learned his name and repeated it over and over.\u00a0 He could say the usual \u201cpretty bird, Sam.”\u00a0 Much time was spent trying to get him to say \u201cSam, I Am.\u201d\u00a0 He would not.\u00a0 Perhaps we should have read Dr. Suess to him.\u00a0 He kept us wondering about one sound he made.\u00a0 We could never decide what he was trying to say until one of the children observed that he only made the sound when someone sneezed.\u00a0 Sure enough, every time someone sneezed, Sam sneezed too.<\/p>\n

Sam had a travel cage and went on most trips with us.\u00a0 He transitioned from Tucson to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas without incident.\u00a0 When Butch, the one of a kind dog, \u00a0entered the picture, Sam gave a few initial squawks and then paid no attention to him.\u00a0 Butch was not at all sure what to make of the creature in the cage, but soon became accustomed to him.\u00a0 He never barked at Sam.<\/p>\n

Sam would move from one person\u2019s outstretched finger to another and liked to be carried.\u00a0 He actually preferred shoulders to hands.\u00a0 Ken was the tallest member of the family and his shoulders were Sam\u2019s favorite.\u00a0 Parrots use their beaks for help navigating. \u00a0Sam would move from one shoulder to the other holding the back of Ken\u2019s shirt collar with his beak.\u00a0 This made a tiny \u201cV\u201d on top of the collar each time he moved.\u00a0 This was not too good for shirts.\u00a0 He also liked to watch our world from the top of curtain rods.\u00a0 This required balancing with his beak on the curtains or drapes.\u00a0 He notched a few drapery tops in his lifetime.<\/p>\n

He would stay on the floor when the children were playing.\u00a0 Charles had several remote controlled trucks and Sam liked to ride on them.\u00a0 His favorite was a little forklift that would go around in a circle.\u00a0 He would stay on the lift as it went up and down and hold onto the lift as it went round and round. \u00a0We waited for him to get dizzy and fall off.\u00a0 He never did. \u00a0He would start a squawking fit when he was removed and\u00a0 fly back to the lift.<\/p>\n

We left for a week and dear friends kept Sam.\u00a0 This couple was at our house most weekends.\u00a0\u00a0After his visit with them, Sam would begin to squawk loudly whenever the wife came in.\u00a0 One afternoon she said, I think I know why Sam no longer likes me.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 It seems that she had taken his cage outside in the carport and used a water hose to wash it out.\u00a0 She said he got pretty upset but not nearly as upset as when she put the vacuum cleaner nozzle into the bottom of the cage.\u00a0 Umm.\u00a0 Question:\u00a0 \u201cDidn\u2019t you take him out of the cage to do this?\u201d\u00a0 Answer: \u201cNope, I just left him in it.\u201d\u00a0 Poor traumatized Sam.<\/p>\n

I never thought that Sam had much of a brain, but he knew what he liked and he remembered our friend.\u00a0 Maybe he really was a smart little bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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