Our Goofy Chicken

Our parrot, Pumpkin, is silly in so many ways, she makes us laugh every day with her antics. One of the things we do to keep her entertained in the kitchen is to put her one one of the drawers so that she can investigate. Pumpkin is absolutely fascinated by cracks, of all things, so if she can peer at a crack of any sort, or the disappearing contents of a drawer, she's a very happy camper. One thing to keep in mind is that we let her do her crack investigations for about 15-30 minutes every day before she is bored--it's always a fresh and exciting new activity for her and this undying curiosity is extremely cute and endearing to us.

Here's Pumpkin on the drawer, looking very pleased with herself. She's also got the body language that says, "This is MY DRAWER...don't try to take me off of here because I have a lot of investigations to do!

Something about peering into the open door of the dishwasher is very interesting to Pumpkin and she is happy to crane her neck and turn her head every which way in order to study the looming darkness behind the crack.

"Gronkkkkk! Cluck-cluck-cluck...chuckle...GRONK!" (Translation: "I see a crack! There's something in there! It's hilarious! Uh oh, I think it might be a monster!"}