Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1875 — Friendship of a Dog and Parrot. [ARTICLE]

Friendship of a Dog and Parrot.

The Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle relates the following: ‘‘Capt. Stearns, real estate agent, residing at the corner of D and Carson streets, is the owner of a Newfoundland dog. He is also the possessor ■ of a large green parrot, which is said, tobe at least seventy years of age. Within the last few months a very strong attachment has sprung up between these two creatures, and they are almost inseparable. The parrot talks all day long of the "dog, and keeps calling him by name when he is away. The dog seems very uneasy when the parrot is out of sight, and wanders about, evidently in an uuhappy frame es mind. He has licked all the feathers off one of the parrot’s wings, but still the latter seems rather to court his strange caresses. It is decidedly interesting to witness the manner in Which the two play together. The parrot walks along the dog’s back, out on to the tip of his nose, when she gravely pecks that member and as gravely walks back to the rear. This stately promenade is kept up for hours, the parrot all the time croaking out its canine friend’s name, and applying endearing epithets to him, such as ‘Oh! yon old bum, Jack!’ ‘Jack, you rascal!* and others which are frequently hurled at the dog by the neighbor’s boys.”