Honey, I Finished The Christmas Pudding

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1. While I was growing up, we had budgies and cockatiels. The last cockatiel we had entertained herself arguing with her image in the mirror that was hanging in her cage. She was one smart bird, so I’m pretty sure she figured out that she was looking at herself.

2. My cat uses a mirror to look at me from another room.
   My dog watches TV.

   Scientist brainiacs have always underestimated the intelligence of animals.

   1. The aforementioned cockatiel figured out how to let herself out of her cage.

      The door had clips that snapped into place around one of the vertical bars when it was closed. Eventually, she ascertained that if she could push each of those clips far enough, the door would open. So, she’d nibble on each clip long enough until it came loose. She often hung onto the door when it swung outwards, giving a quiet chirp of victory.

      Then we thought we could thwart her by using an extra paper clip bent into a suitable shape. Nope. She outsmarted us even with that.

      She died in the early 1980s. I still miss her and her antics.

      My oft-mentioned canine stepbrother is equally as clever when it comes to playing “fetch”. It’s not easy faking him out as he’ll watch the direction in which the toy of choice was thrown or he’ll listen for where it lands. Sure enough, he knows where to start looking.

      But, if he doesn’t see or hear where the toy lands, he starts his search from where he last found it and goes from there.

      1. Birds are quite clever. My daughter has two budgies that are a riot.

3. Was I the only one watching for the video of Just-in, being mesmerized by his mirror image?

   1. I thought the same thing but I thought it better not to mention it.

   2. That’s just mean spirited; but really funny.

   3. Here in the former United States we once had a president with a selfie stick.
      The results weren’t pretty, but they did reveal quite a bit about his character.

   4. Larry, LOL.
      That was my very first thought after watching the animals/mirror clip but for some reason I demurred.
      Then I was remembering the narcissist referring to himself in the 3rd person in that little scrum: “Does Justin Trudeau believe …… “ whatever it was.