Tweety Pie

This is our canary Tweety Pie. We discovered Tweety in February 1999 in our garden. It was ice cold outside. Thom carefully drove him inside the house. There the bird warmed itself near the central heating. Then we put him in a cage.
He sings a lot. His favorite song is Believe by Cher.
Two months a year, during summer he's going through the difficult phase of losing feathers and growing new ones. He loses his tail and is looking silly. Also the part of hiss brain, that directs his singing is growing new cells. For this reason canaries won't sing during moult.

Seeds, dandelion leaves, lettuce and apple are Tweety's favorite food. He's very particular. Because he lost some feathers during winter, the petvet ordered to give him homegrown food. I mingle this through his seed and hope he swallows it.
Tweety flies around our sitting room in the morning, whistling his favorite tunes.
He's not very interested in us, but all the more in other birds. In winter all kinds of birds come to our garden to eat the seeds we put there, while Tweety sings to them from the window sill. Lately he finds us a bit more interesting. He laughs at me in the morning, because he knows I'll give him breakfast.

In August 2000 a new creature entered our household. It was a dog called Odie. Tweety Pie needed some company because I was spending a lot of time behind the computer in another room. While Tweety flies around in the morning, Odie sleeps. Now and then Odie jumps after Tweety Pie; probably because the bird reminds him of a ball, being thrown.Tweety doesn't care.