Frankies Outing, cute story

Nakiska

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So, the other afternoon, I decided to take Franklin with me to the pet store where I purchased him, to say "Hi." And to work on more socialization.

Frankie just LOVES his car rides and is really becoming quite comfortable with his outings.

The employees were super excited to see Franklin and he was such a good good boy, everyone held him and talked to him and he even handled himself very well when a couple excited and somewhat disrespectful young kids came up and forcefully reached out to pet him without asking.

But the funniest thing of all was this elderly woman. As I was leaving the store, she saw Franklin and asked if he was my bird. She asked his name and age and expressed how beautiful he is. Then she looked at him and said..."you are such a handsome boy!" And I said in reply..."ohhh...thank you, Iiiii ammmm..."

This woman absolutely startled me with her next response.

She looked directly at me, pointed her finger at me and said "You SHUT UP! I am talking to him, I love animals, just let me talk to him!"

I'm sure my eyes got super wide, I glanced over at Natalie, the store employee who named Franklin and her eyes were as big as quarters and BOTH of us were choking back our shock and laughter.

I stood quietly with Franklin on my shoulder, listening to this woman talk to him for a few moments, then...I guess she felt she had "bonded" with him because she reached out to see if he'd step on her finger and I was soo pleased when he showed his loyalty toward me by running and snuggling up to my neck :D

Have a good one,

Toni
 

usamimi

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I love people that go to pet stores.My local petco employees can tell some stories!

Glad franklin is behaving in public. We're working on socializing too.
 
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Nakiska

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I love people that go to pet stores.My local petco employees can tell some stories!

Glad franklin is behaving in public. We're working on socializing too.

So far, Franklin has been behaving quite impressively :D

I ordered him a flight suit, I'm sure he'll hate it, but I soo love taking him out and about, it's going to be a necessity for us.

When I take him bye bye in the car, he rides on my shoulder or if someone is with us I have him ride on their shoulder. Well one afternoon it was raining when I was taking him bye bye, the windshield wipers were on delay/intermittent setting. We got all settled in and suddenly the wipers went off...Franklin freaked out and ran behind my shoulder then oooh soo timidly peeked up over my shoulder to see if it was "safe"...the wipers didn't go again, he decided it was safe, ran back up on my shoulder got all settled and SWOOSH, the wipers went again, he reacted exactly the same, ran behind my shoulder and peeeeked...oh my gosh, it was sooo funny!!!

Took him about 8 times before he determined - with my help of telling him, "it's okay, trust mommy" - that it was safe and the evil wipers were NOT out to get him. :D

Toni
 

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