Word: parakeets
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When at last he was bundled, along with his poodle Rufus and his parakeet...
...Back home in North Carolina, Pet-Lover Graham keeps a horse, a cat, a canary, a parakeet, a Great Pyrenees dog named Belle Shazzar...
...also have a parakeet," added Joan, "named Crazy Crawford." But parakeets (like Peter Lorre's pet sea gull that recently suffered a broken wing) have their own special emotional problems...
...Leader Enterprises Inc., had something for almost every child's taste. Among the features: the story of a schoolboy named Ed Hoover, who couldn't make the football team but grew up to be director of the FBI; a how-to-do-it section on teaching your parakeet to talk ("When he trusts you, he will perch on your finger while you take him out of the cage"); "Railroad Whistle Talk," i.e., what the toots of a locomotive whistle mean; a secret code so that "you can send letters and notes that no one else will understand...
...Parakeet reactions to TV are fairly complicated. Lu Van Wiseman says that most of them go "nearly crazy with excitement" at the sight of their own kind on the TV screen. Certain music appeals to them ("They just love the Hopalong Cassidy theme song"). And some parakeets act like some people: they just stare at TV in a pained silence...