List your pets' nicknames here and any silly rhymes you recite to them [View All]

[Ladyhawk]

The subject: an eighteen-year-old double yellowheaded Amazon parrot named Gabby who has lived with me since age four months.



AKA:

His Royal Greenness, Gabby the Velociraptor

Gab

Gabs

Gabbles

Gabby-Wabby

Flabby-Gabby

Crabby-Gabby

Gabblety-Wabblety

Cabby

Bir

Bir-bir

Birdles

Biggles

Greenness With No Penis (although male, like other parrots, Gabby possesses only one testicle and no penis)

Mean Green Thing (I think of him when I listen to "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" from Little Shop of Horrors

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Birdie Rhymes:

You're so good
You're so green
You're so nice
You're so mean

You have feathers on your face
You have feathers every place
You have feathers here and there
You have feather underwear!

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Gabby-Wabby, two-by-four
Can't fit through the kitchen door
Gabby-Wabby, two-by-six
Couldn't win at "Pick Up Sticks"
Gabby-Wabby, two-by-eight
Couldn't get over the garden gate
Gabby-Wabby, eight-by-ten
Drank a tub of bathtub gin

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Question: do we lose our sanity when we talk to our pets? :crazy: