The Mexican Red-Headed Amazon Parrot went missing sometime Saturday afternoon from Ewert’s Pets in Niles. Store manager George Blake is offering a reward for the bird’s return and information leading to the conviction of whoever took it.
“We think someone put him under their coat,” Blake tells the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune. “(Floyd is) that nice. It would cuddle with you.” For more information visit here
Dallas police are investigating a very unusual burglary case. A pet owner says someone broke into her house and stole two cockatoo birds.
Tonight all the owner wants for Christmas is her birds back where they belong.
“They’re very sensitive to your emotions, they’re incredible pets,” explains Nicole George. “These little guys live to be about 80-years-old. You want to put them in your will basically.”
George has had her cockatoos for 16 years. She says she knew something wasn’t right when she walked through her door and didn’t get her usual greeting. “Thumper actually has a distinctive whistle,” she said. For more information visit CBS11TV
NILES — Floyd talks, makes kissing sounds and whistles the tune from “The Andy Griffith Show.”
And he’s missing.
The Mexican Red-Headed Amazon Parrot was stolen between noon and 4 p.m. Saturday from Ewert’s Pets, 2059 S. Third St.
George Blake, store manager, said the theft ruined the Christmas of an area family that had planned to purchase the bird as a gift, either for itself or someone else.
He said the family — he didn’t get a name — went to the store Sunday to close the deal and discovered Floyd had been stolen. For details read here.
Kuwait - Some people were injured at a Friday Market when the buyer and seller were involved in a scuffle, reports Al-Watan daily.
According to the daily an unidentified person sold a ‘talking’ parrot to the buyer. The buyer went home with the parrot but the bird refused to talk. He came back to the Friday Market with the bird and told the seller he wants his money back.
Read more at ArabTimesOnline.com
PUPILS from a Tarleton Primary School had an unexpected visitor to their playground – an African grey parrot.
The children from Tarleton Community Primary are now hoping the owner of the lost bird will come forward so they can be reunited in time for Christmas.
Headteacher Angela Fleming rescued the bird from circling crows and seagulls. For more information
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