Oskar the cockatiel has a new room-mate

[matrixrefugee]

Just back from the local pet shop (where we'd gotten Merry), and we have adopted (or maybe been adopted by) a teeny little yellow parakeet with a smidge of green near his tail. We're still working on choosing a name for him (current candidates are "Frodo" [again from Lord of the Rings: Hobbit names make good budgie names, in my opinion] and "Teeny

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[koemiko]

I wondered if you'd named him "Pippin," but I have to admit that I think Teeny is an awfully cute name.

[matrixrefugee]

I thought of suggesting Pip or Pippin, but there was a feral parakeet in our neighborhood a few years back, whom we'd been referring to as Pip, so the name really didn't cross my mind since technically it was "taken".