Hey Phil,
LThat's just what you need--a Parrot answering machine.
 Vinny
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 7:45 AM
Subject: Chester our parrot


> Chester is now almost 11 months old and although he still doesn't really
say
> words, he is learning to imitate various sounds including whistling
certain
> ways.  Lately, however, with colds and all, he has begun to imitate the
> blowing of the nose and coughing.  He thinks it is pretty funny, too.  He
> also imitates the high pitched beeping of my radio shack watch.  It does a
> double beep and I made it beep one day checking something and he
immediately
> mimicked it.  He does that all the time now.  He has almost gotten the
> electronic ringing of the telephone down, too.  I say thank you to him all
> the time and he mimics the sound of the words and once and awhile, it
sounds
> like he is saying the words to me.  You are supposed to squirt him down
once
> a week, at least, for a bath but he does not like the mist squirt bottle
we
> have at all.  So we bought a perch that you can put in the shower.  He
sits
> up on the thing a couple of times a week now and since it is up higher, he
> gets all that steam and he's happy once he gets out and back into his cage
> and sings and makes all sorts of sounds.  Of course, he isn't in the spray
> of the shower so he is just getting the steam.
>
> Phil.