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Parrot Tells Owner: Your Gal’s Cheating

Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Quick, stuff that dumb bird’s mouth with crackers!

A blabbermouth parrot named Ziggy squawked “I love you, Gary” — spilling the beans to his owner on his girlfriend’s affair, according to the BBC.

According to reports in the British media, Suzy Collins had been shacking up with a former co-worker, “Gary,” for about four months in the Leeds flat she shared with boyfriend Chris Taylor.

After Ziggy chirped “Hiya Gary” one time when Collins answered her cell phone, Taylor reportedly started suspecting something was up.

Whenever the TV sounded out the name Gary, the blabbermouth bird apparently made little “smoochy” sounds.

The 30-year-old computer programmer confronted Collins, whom he’d lived with for a year, and she confessed to the affair under pressure and moved out, according to several different newspaper reports.

Sadly, after the 8-year-old African Grey parrot kept on calling out Gary’s name — along with different embarrassing phrases in Collins’ lilting 25-year-old voice — Taylor was forced to get rid of the stool pigeon.

“I wasn’t sorry to see the back of Suzy after what she did, but it really broke my heart to let Ziggy go,” Taylor told the BBC.

“I love him to bits and I really miss having him around, but it was torture hearing him repeat that name over and over again,” he said.

Collins said she’s embarrassed by the bird-brained revelations, but the relationship was already troubled.

“I’m not proud of what I did but I’m sure Chris would be the first to admit we were having problems,” she told the BBC.

Named after rocker David Bowie’s alter ego Ziggy Stardust, Ziggy now has a new home after being relocated by a nearby parrot dealer.

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