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.