A while ago

[solarbird]

A few years ago, I posted a link to a video of my crazy parrot Zoe boogieing down to the 70s pop stylings of The Captain and Tennille, hosted on my own webserver, which was slow. I finally gave in a year or so ago and got a YouTube account, and have further finally put the video on it. It's not that exciting, but I miss Zoe, so here she is being silly:

eta: Other dancy parrots, courtesy annathepiper.

Comments

[breimh.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's great when pets can be so much fun and entertaining. I'd miss a cool little friend like that, too. The only birds I ever had, though, were a mated pair of zebra finches named Riven and Dale.

[torquemada.livejournal.com]

I've had a couple finches that had pretty neat personalities that I miss now that they're gone. One in particular, a society finch named Carmelita, would sing duets with me: we'd whistle back and forth and usually end up whistling her usual song as a round. She'd also get excited when people were in the kitchen (which the flight cage looks in on) and sing for them for hours. She was also pretty flirty with men, me in particular.

We're down to one finch now, a zebra finch (no official name, but unofficially named Hernando) that's pushing six years old and was the hatchling of two of my original finches. He also gets excited when people are around and will have conversations with you -- you talk to him, he makes zebra finch squeaky wheel noises back. He also puts up with the cats' extreme interest in him pretty well, and when they're not jumping on the cage will talk to some of them like he will to us. He's well past his life expectency, though, and I'm dreading coming home to finding him dead one of these days.

[flit.livejournal.com]

Sooo cute.

[janne.livejournal.com]

Remember that one, very very cute :)

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

To submit your You Tube video of your dancing pet for evaluation by NPR, just tag it nprpetdance.