My African Grey

OK, well as is normal with a child… he ignores the expensive toys and gravitates towards the least expensive items. Behold the parrot chewing on shiny colorful ad inserts from the LA Times.

He’s also learning whistles. He spent about 20 minutes with me tonight practicing his wolf whistle. He’d [...]

Thanks to a kind fan the LinusCam is back online with a temporary camera.

OK, here’s some more cute pictures of Linus enjoying his peppers… (click to enlarge)

Well it looks like the linuscam will be down for a while. It’s having issues with the chip that processes the video and Panasonic had me send it back to them for repairs. One of the viewers of his cam was kind enough to loan me a camera to use and I should have that [...]

Ok, I said he likes the New Mexico pepper pods, that was an understatement.
He loves them. They’re like crack for him. I think I finally found a good treat food. This is a good thing since they’re about a dollar for a month’s supply at the local hispanic grocery store.
He also likes my salsa. He [...]

I stopped by the mexican market today and got him a bag of New Mexico Chile pods. He loves ‘em.

I also finally got some video of him doing his little crazy dance around the cage. He does this once or twice a day and I’m a bit puzzled as to what he’s doing. He doesn’t [...]

OK, here’s some new movies (quicktime) of Linus enjoying his playtop.
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Linus attacked Tricia’s hair again last night. For some reason he gets really aggressive towards her red hair. I don’t think he’s being territorial because he lets her hold him but the last couple times he’s been perched on the back of the sofa he’s attacked her hair. It wasn’t a friendly little gnawing, he [...]