MAYNARD AND ME

My name is Otto and I'm a beautiful big black labrador retriever. My counterpart is named Maynard and he is a gorgeous lilac crowned amazon. In plain english, a parrot. He is mostly green but has lilac on his crown, crimson on the front part of his head and when he spreads his wings they are outlined in red and blue.

Mom hasn't updated my site for a long time and I told her, "please get on with it". She started this site when I was only 4 months old and this coming May 17, I will be 7. My how times flies by. Maynard is 23 now and not a grey feather in sight. Guess parrots don't get grey feathers unless, of course, they are an African Grey and they are born grey. He doesn't fly as high as he used to though. Maybe his eye site is getting a little old. As you know, if you followed my site, Mom and I were going to school. She graduated and I didn't. Like all teenagers, I did goof up now and then and still have a mind of my own. I am allowed on the couch - they just keep it covered. Maynard and I are still great friends, although my mother and father get very nervous when Maynard is out of his cage and I zero in on him in a bird dog stance (if you know what I mean). Maynard and I communicate to one another. When he chirps in a certain way, I run to the window and bark. We may see a deer or a squirrel out there. Were quite a team, Maynard and me.

Spring is finally here. I had a lot of fun this winter although we didn't have a lot of snow for me to play in. I enjoy catching snowballs and running like a deer around the house. I like the out-of-doors very much but am glad that I'm not kept in an outside kennel. My parents would never hear of such a thing. In fact, I like sleeping by the fireplace on a really cold winter evening, and if there's the smell of popcorn in the air snitching few pieces from the bowl when my parents aren't looking. When I think it is time for them to get up, I just jump on the bed (all 100 lbs of me) and lay flat out more or less pushing them right out of bed. It always works. They also bought a car that I would be comfortabe riding in. The seats fold down and I have lots of room and it even has a sunroof that I can stick my head out of. . They call it the "doggie buggy".