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Parrots on Prozac ... sounds like the title of a new reality TV show, doesn't it? Well, it's not.
Out of the UK comes a story about an African Grey who became depressed after his owner, George Dance, passed away. Dance had raised the bird since he was a chick.
How did Dance's widow, Helen, know the bird had the blues? He bit off all his neck feathers and bobbed his head up and down all day.
I want to make a joke here, something to the effect, "Don't most males bob their heads up and down all day so they don't have to talk to their wives?" But it's the holiday season and I'm trying to be nice.
Now the parrot takes a liquid dose of a bird-friendly version of Prozac twice a day and seems to be in better spirits.
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In other parrot news from the UK, a missing cockatiel was reunited with its owners after the bird chirped its name into the phone from the home of the woman who rescued it.
The two-year-old bird, Smokey, flew out of his house and landed two miles away, where Sue Hill found him and alerted the proper authorities.
To be certain she had contacted Smokey's "parents," she held the receiver up to the bird, who began saying his own name when he heard one of his owner's voices.
Smokey's just lucky his parents weren't screening their calls.
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