Well the holidays are finally over so it’s time for an update.
Linus has been plucking for a while. I’ve taken him to the vet and he’s got a clean bill of health so I’m trying to figure out what the issue is. He gets plenty of sleep and light and his diet is fairly varied although if it were up to him he’d eat his curly noodles all day long. He loves the spiral pasta but only a certain kind. I couldn’t get him to eat the protein and vitamin enriched, probably because I wouldn’t touch it myself.
His speech is developing very quickly. In the last month or so he has been speaking gibberish, but he sounds like a human when he does it. He uses inflection, phrasing and it even sounds conversational at times. However he’s like a radio with bad reception. You can kind of hear “words” but it’s not very clear even though it sounds like a human being speaking. He’ll do it for hours at a time and usually when he’s alone although sometimes at night while we’re watching TV he’ll give us the parrot translation of what’s going on.
I’m being told that he may be smarter than the average Grey although I guess that’s an illusion that all parents have. I was under the impression that the speech wouldn’t be starting up for another year and wasn’t aware that there would be so much of it. I’ll be posting a recording of him as soon as I can get a good one.
It looks like Alex may have some competition.