OH, too bad, Darks.
Yup.
Peaches the peg legged lovebird had a stroke.
So we had to have her put to sleep.
She would chatter to the cats, they’d mutter and murmur back.
Seemed like a conversation.
When she had the stroke, the cats were upset as she wasn’t talking to them.
(Usually she’d say “Pretty bird”. When they say lovebirds aren’t good mimics, it is a continent sized understatement. But she did talk.)