Okay, since I last posted here, CoCo had to be put down, and I had given Deezal to a couple who had just put their black dog to sleep. He was too much to handle at the time, and I figured another family would be happy with him. So... as seen in the "Show Us Your Critters" thread, I have two dogs.
*Sir Maxwell is still well. He will be eight years old in March. The little guy, Pepper, is keeping him busy

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*Pepper is a black Cocker Spaniel (I'm a Cocker nut

), and he is five months old. He is the most rambunctious little rascal. Something he has done at times, when he wants back in the house bad enough, is bang on the back door instead of scratch :blink:. Seriously, the first time he did that, I thought somebody was trying to break in

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*Howard, the African Grey, has learned a lot more vocabulary. He mocks entire small talk telephone conversations (including the telephone ringing, pushing the talk button to talk and then again to hang up

), copys the sound of the front door opening and closing, screams for me if I have not awaken him by a certain time, and talks to the dogs (i.e "Get in your bed.", "Let's go night-night.", "Gotta go potty?", "Down!", "Good boy!", "Whatcha got,huh?"). He makes a peep sound whenever I unlock the front door to enter the house, followed by, "Hello!". Ever since he began to cuss like a sailor, I've had to be careful about TV programs I was leaving on for him (it aids in their vocabulary learning process). I don't even do that anymore due to consciousness about the environment and saving energy. Anyhoo, he hardly cusses anymore. Strangely, even though I rarely use this phrase and never say it around him, he has started saying, "Son of a b****!" He also adds random names to the things he says. He'll say things like, "Whatever, Max!", "Whatcha got, bird?!", "How's it goin', Pepper?" and other random things

. Something random he said the other week was, "I got it on sale!" Phew! I could go on and on about this character, but I think this is enough for now

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