Word: parakeet
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...Lovshin has a wife, a son (17), three daughters (15, 11, and 7). a pup, a cat and a parakeet (see cut). Says his wife: "Certainly I'm pooped...
...must learn to expect anything. An old lady in Washington, D.C. asked the repairman to run the new telephone wire through her parakeet's cage so that he "would have something interesting to perch on" (refused). A Chicago woman insisted on having her wall telephone four inches from the floor so that she would be forced to exercise while bending to answer it (granted). One telephone man was called to a Chicago hotel to repair a badly frayed cord, discovered the cause of the trouble as he was leaving: sitting in the bathtub was a pet lion...
...both tests, parakeets were fed on a schedule of two days on millet seed enriched with Aureomycin, one day on plain feed. After 15 days, virtually all became virus-free. Hartz Mountain will begin marketing the treated feed in September, and parakeet owners can relax at last. Dr. Meyer's next project: a medicated feed for table birds, especially turkeys, which are also subject to ornithosis epidemics (TIME, March...
...Bird. In Ventura, Calif., Audrey Martin got a divorce on the ground of mental cruelty after she told the judge that toward the end of their 25th year of marriage her husband Albert rarely spoke to her, proved by the fact that their parakeet's favorite saying was now: "Did you hear me, Albert...
...Gentle Rain. In Portland, Ore., a woman in desperate need of an apartment submitted a want ad to the Oregonian, saying she would "get rid of pet chinchillas, toy poodle, Siamese cat, parakeet and goldfish, but would like to keep 9-year...