Lorenzo, is a talkative parrot, he starts dancing with happiness if you give him a salty cracker, he moves his head up and down and up and down, wiggling his apple green wings. Carmen, the young lady with whom I lived, went to work at five o’clock in the morning and came home at six o’clock in the afternoon, so Lorenzo got quite bored and started looking through the window.

As he talked a lot, Carmen’s neighbors complained -That parrot won’t shut up! -Then Carmen would lower the blinds, Lorenzo would get sad because his mission was to sing and talk, he didn’t understand in what way he bothered anyone.

After a strong argument in the corridor, Carmen decided that day not to pay attention to the grumpy neighbor and raised the blind while caressing Lorenzo, the parrot did not understand anything she was talking about but repeated some things like Hello! Carmen! Cookie , please!

That particular morning, she thought she was in trouble because she chanted ” boring neighbor !” Boring neighbor! Lorena does not dance the macarena ha ha ha! –

– Lorenzo! don’t expose me Sshhhh , Sshhhh ! Keep quiet Lorenzo …

– Lorena, Lorena, the crazy woman on the stairs ha, ha, ha!

Miss Carmen got very angry because she covered the cage with a fine linen blanket. Although he left the blind open, at that, a passing pigeon began to chat with him.

– Prisoner? -He said, in bird language-

– Hi! Hi! – Frustrated said his repertoire of words-

– Do not speak human, speak in bird language, but you can teach you in exchange for a cookie.

He kept his word and every afternoon he visited him giving him oratory lessons, forbidding him to repeat words spoken by humans. The second lesson was to whistle at decent hours from ten in the morning until six in the afternoon, that would be safe. The third, very important, was to make his payment, for this he was learning to secretly open the cage from Miss Carmen, thankfully the window ajar. The fourth lesson was to learn to fly. It was a bird in captivity so that the dove patiently taught him from zero. The fifth lesson was learning how to clean your tracks or traces if you stained Miss Carmen’s carpet.

He had already developed enough strength, however, he was terrified to start flying from the fifth floor, with the instructions of the trainer bird , he managed to open the apartment door, pointing to the elevator button he got into it, already on the ground floor He crawled out, I waited for the right moment while they unloaded some boxes at the reception, I waited for the signal from the dove and shot off to freedom.

The wind under his wings was wonderful, a spectacular sensation, out here no one asked him to shut up, rather they pointed it out happily. L fter a while living in the tall palms, he began to think of Miss Carmen.

– I’m sure the neighbor forced the door and opened the cage.

– I don’t think so, you told me yourself Lorenzo was very quiet lately… it’s more , better this way…

– How can you say that?

– The birds were born to fly through the skies, dancing in the clouds with their cheerful colors, not to have them locked in a cage, is that perhaps, would you like to be put against your will in one?

– Of course not. You’re right, I also work all day and I didn’t give it the attention it deserved.

– Lorenzo is fine, they say that the animals return from time to time to visit their former owners, they don’t hold any grudges either, leave the window ajar with food and he will come back, sometimes, if he misses you or needs food.

Miss Carmen paid attention to her good friend, Lorenzo returned and saw a plate with cookies, what a deal! Then he thought that in exchange for his kindness he would give her a leaf or some fruit, so he resolved, he brought it in his beak, so Carmen knew that Lorenzo was very well and that although they could not live in the same habitat they could keep helping each other and be good friends. She filled a bird feeder outside her window, to which hummingbirds, sparrows, pigeons, owlets, among others, came, that caught the attention of her neighbor Lorena, who was not crazy nor did she dance the macarena, she works as a volunteer for the rights of animals and congratulate your neighbor for her excellent decision and maturity. They made peace and now they are friends, during the weekends will give cotufas birds of the square, rescue gat it you or Dog it will search out a home and donate food to pet shelters.

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