Dog Keeps Hugging His New Parrot Friend

The Dodo

Dog finds an injured parrot, who becomes obsessed with him and follows him around for cuddles. We talked with their mom, Charlotte, about how heartbroken they both were when the parrot flew away, and the amazing thing that happened a few weeks later

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00:00Milo's obsessed with him.

00:06They groom each other, they kiss.

00:22Milo tries to cuddle, which seems like he's squashing him.

00:27Sometimes I'm like, should I stop him? But I look at Cracker and he just does not care.

00:36It was 2020, Milo was on a walk and he heard this injured bird, so he brought him home.

00:47You could tell he was quite shaken up by whatever he'd gone through.

00:52When Cracker was out there, Milo refused to come inside.

00:57Once we realized he could fly, we would leave Cracker on top of his cage because we wanted him

01:03to be free. But he just never left. He'd go down to the bottom of the cage and be face to face with

01:10Milo. It all seemed quite loving until one day he finally came down to the ground. It just started

01:17like that. If I'm honest, Cracker is the boss and Milo is the little one in Cracker's eyes.

01:24Cracker is a bit annoying. He gets a bit up in your personal space,

01:28so Milo would get annoyed sometimes.

01:36He hates my dad, which is sad and funny.

01:39He follows him around the house and like attacks his ankles.

01:46This one day he got startled by other birds and he flew off.

01:53We felt very bittersweet because we wanted him to be free,

01:58but at the same time he'd become part of our family. Milo was devastated.

02:06Two weeks went by and we saw a Facebook post. A philologist found two suburbs over from mine.

02:12I was kind of like, no, it's too good to be true.

02:14If this is the bird that has become best friends with my dog, that is just

02:18insane. The only way we'd be able to fully tell if that was Cracker is if we brought Milo in.

02:24He couldn't believe that his friend was back. It was just the cutest thing.

02:36Milo would not stop smiling. He'd just smile from ear to ear.

02:47I have recently written and illustrated a children's book about the story of Cracker and Milo.

02:54The purpose of the book is just accepting friends,

02:57no matter how different they may be. They're just like the best of friends.

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