Newsgroups: rec.birds
Path: utzoo!snell
From: snell@utzoo.uucp (snell)
Subject: Parrot Paranoia--Sorry to disappoint you, but we're bored...
Message-ID: <1988Feb25.145536.3854@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 88 14:55:36 GMT


In article <114@cfiprod.UUCP>, susans@cfisun.UUCP (Susan Scheide -CFI-) writes:

>In article <768@mit-caf.UUCP> paul@mit-caf.UUCP (Paul Meyer) writes:
>>
>>	I recently bought a spoon-fed African Gray.  It is now about 4
>>months old and I am starting to attempt to teach it to talk.  It is very
>>tame and pettable and not hand-shy at all.  If anyone out there has
>>any advice on training a parrot to talk or perform simple tricks, I would
>>appreciate it.  
>>	
>>Paul Meyer
>
>	Poor Paul!!  He made the fatal mistake of posting about
>	a (gasp!  shriek!  moan of disgust) PET BIRD in rec.bird --
>	obviously he missed the heated debate in which those of us
>	who keep birds as pets were assaulted by the men of Toronto.
>	Now that we've been bullied out of this newsgroup, I've noticed
>	traffic is pretty stable at about 2 articles a day.
>
>	I'd love to read the e-mail Paul gets!!  
>-- 
>                         Susan Scheide

This is really a hoot, as clearly Ms. Scheide has been on a slow burn since
December, but never bothered to rebut any of the arguments put to
her.  Now we are reading rantings about imagined e-mail to Paul Meyer.
Good grief.  Is she unhappy that we (meaning the system users at utzoo
who read rec.birds, which is not the same as the _Men_of_Toronto_) have not
bothered to comment on the latest rash of parrot-talk articles?  We are
just bored of it, as are most others.
-- 
Name:   Richard Snell
Mail:   Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada    M5S 1A1
UUCP:   {allegra,decvax,ihnp4,linus,pyramid,yetti,utai}!utzoo!snell