They already had the best dance moves.
Posted on 10/21/2007 7:25:38 PM PDT by Kimmers
Muncie - A family's new pet likely saved their lives Friday night.
Shannon Conwell and his 9-year-old son fell asleep on the couch while watching a movie. Around 3 a.m., they were awakened to find their home on fire after hearing the family's parrot, Peanut, imitating a smoke alarm.
"The bird just started squawking, and he mocks everything he hears," Conwell said. "He was really screaming his head off."
While the smoke alarm was going off, it was the bird's call that caught Conwell's attention.
"I sit up, smoke everywhere and then I get up and I see fire starting. Fire everywhere," Conwell recalled. "I grabbed my son and my bird, and got out of the house," he said.
"I remember my dad grabbing me and the bird and ran out of the house," Tyler Conwell said.
The home was destroyed in the fire, and the Conwells will have to find somewhere else to live, along with their new hero, Peanut.
"If he wasn't here, we wouldn't be here today," Conwell said. "He's family. He's been family since day one."
Conwell said he only bought the bird six months ago, but feels now that it may have been fate.
"Something told me we had to have this bird," he said. "I always thought, you know, I paid a lot of money for this bird, but I never, you know, it's the best money I ever invested in."
Shannon and Tyler hope to get a veterinarian to give Peanut a check-up. They want to make sure he's okay after being exposed to all that smoke.
This is a great story! It also proves its important to make sure your parrot’s batteries are fully charged.
That reminds me of a joke about a parrot named Chet.
This story is similar to one I read last week.
I believe it was in the U.K., where a man was awakened by his parrot who was saying, “Hello, Hello...”
Realizing the bird spoke when someone entered the house, the fella got his gun and shot the intruder.
‘Looks like dogs have got to pick it up a bit in the security area if they don’t want to be replaced by Pit Bull Parrots.
Finally someone on a group figured out it must be the smoke alarm. It was; the batteries were going dead. I took them out because it was driving me nuts. The sound kept moving. That's because two smoke alarms were going at once.
Then she walked back and had a snack. By the way, she loves 40's jazz....
“parrot named Chet.” and a german shepard named “Jesus”?
A new wrinkle in the dogs vs. cats saga: Parrots gain a point.
Dogs 1, Cats 1, Birds 1
They already had the best dance moves.
LOL! By the end I almost was up and dancing with it!
Glad the parrot made it out and isn't pinin' for the fjords.
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