When Rebecca was 12, she had saved $450 over three years. Everyone told her to buy a bike or a puppy. She bought Pete, a baby Major Mitchell cockatoo, and he turned her family home upside down. 🦜
In the first-ever bird episode of Who's a Good Human?, Rebecca tells Sian Gard about Pete. He preferred her mum because of her curly hair, copied the phone so people came running, and shredded her dad's antiques. He even learned to say her sister's name in the tone she was always in trouble in. It's a funny, tender and sometimes heartbreaking story about patience, trust, and loving an animal that was never meant to be tamed.
Guest: Rebecca Graham, @rebeccagraham_media
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Music: Spring in my step by Silent Player
Chapters
00:00 Welcome and meet Pete
00:24 Saving up for a baby Major Mitchell cockatoo
02:06 Why birds?
03:40 Bringing Pete home, and why he picked Mum
05:44 Earning a cockatoo's trust
08:12 Pete learns everyone's names
09:15 Pete rules the roost
10:37 Escapes and an overnight rescue
13:33 Bush pony camp
16:18 How long cockatoos live, and saying goodbye to Pete
19:54 Birds since Pete
21:32 A lifelong love of horses
24:53 Where animals fit in Rebecca's life today
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