Speaking of birds ...

Parrots will pick up on sounds they really like and repeat them, whether they have anything to do with you or not.

Praxis likes water sounds. He imitates the sound of pouring a glass of water out of the Brita pitcher, most times I'm opening the refrigerator where the pitcher lives.

He also imitates the sound of our sink draining. After they took out the defunct garbage disposal, it makes a loud dripping noise as water is draining. Praxis loves that sound and will make it randomly throughout the day.

I tell him we need to call the blumber (the bird plumber) but he insists on leaking anyway.

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Praxis loves to sit on the ceiling fan but doesn't understand the physics of the whole thing. He'll land one one of the blades and start it slowly spinning. He wants to look in a particular direction so he hops to the next blade and runs to the end, which makes it rotate slightly faster. It's quite fun to watch. Silly bird.

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I love to listen to talking parrots, especially #budgies. This one is speaking German so I can only understand a little of what he's saying.

And you can always tell a bird is well-loved by all the kissing sounds.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hk9JrXDBIo

About my bird's gender, since this has come up several times now. And this is for the purposes of explaining it to someone new without having to write it all out again.

Our family knows that Praxis is a female bird. But he uses he/him pronouns (we use them for him).

This is due to the clerk at the bird store when we brought him home. I kept saying I thought then-baby Praxis was female. But the clerk insisted, swore up and down, that Praxis was a male. I should have listened to myself but let a supposed "expert" dissuade me.

At any rate, we started calling Prax "he" and by the time his cere had settled into adult color, the pronouns were engraved in our minds.

Prax doesn't care either way; he doesn't know what a pronoun is.

So my bird (and my family) says: Trans Rights.

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At times we may be upside down but at least we know where to go next.

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Someone either had a bath or trampled his enemies into the dirt. Unsure which.

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Praxis LOOOOOVES his morning salad.

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