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| The popular breakfast cereal, Fruit Loops, came out years ago when I was a kid. Fruit Loops featured a cartoon Toucon on the box with that distinctive, rainbowed long beak. About that same time Mom and Dad made a trip to a large pet shop in Washington, D.C. to grab some new stock and supplies. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| When they returned home, Dad carried in a card board box with holes in it. I knew it had to be a new animal. "What's in the box, Dad?"Dad just grinned. I tried to look in the air holes from a distance (you don't just put your eye to a box not knowing what's in it) but I couldn't tell what was in there. Dad went out to get a large cage and I figured it was a big bird then. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| As Dad put the cage and stand together the
bird started exploring the box and next thing I know that
big bill punched out of one of the air holes. I hollered,
"Look it's a Fruit Loops bird.". "A
Toucon", Dad corrected with a big grin. This Toucon was a nice bird and I liked feeding him. Pretty soon someone came in and bought him though. We said good bye as he was kind of popular for a while and became a "pet" but we knew he was too expensive to keep and saying good bye was part of life to us as various animals moved on to newer, better homes. |
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