On this Throwback Thursday, let's roll it back three years to March of 2012. I'm quoting the cat and singing "Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto." 

I can't reply to all of the comments and questions I get on YouTube [likely] due to privacy settings on that person's end. I had a suggestion and a comment that I asked my human to answer; the person suggesting/commenting might see my response, and the information might also be interesting to someone else. Love, Disco 

"You should bring him to the zoo and see if he will mimic some of the animal sounds, like he does for a dog and a cat."

Not sure if he’d mimic them or not – the cat and dog sounds are ones he learned from us, as he does all of his phrases and sounds. (Many people think he learns movie and song lines from watching TV and listening to the radio. While he enjoys listening to a variety of media, LOL, he only mimics what we say to him, and it’s always in the context of play, never some official training session.)

"I like animals a lot, I like this little guy but I don't buy that it's him actually saying this."

You are not alone! Many people have suggested – or downright stated with great certainty and occasionally rudeness, LOL – that Disco is a fake, that we fake his videos. We get all kinds of reasons why he couldn’t possibly be talking like this, including “birds don’t make breathing noises like that!” and “my grandma had a bird like that and he never talked!” I think people don’t realize what great mimics budgies are by nature (but not always by nurture, which is why one should never, ever get a bird just so it will talk, because it might not), and that it’s well documented that they can develop some of the largest vocabularies in the parrot family. Disco was just in a documentary – “Pets – Wild at Heart” – in the UK, and the same documentary will appear in the US later this year on PBS; the UK-based production company which filmed him and produced this program certainly didn’t spend their time or money on a fake US-based bird! 

Well, I do know it! Oh, hey, who in the UK saw me last night on #PetsWildAtHeart  on BBC One? I understand the whole program was terrific! (I have to wait until later in the year to see it in the States.) XOXO, Disco 

This is going to be a wonderful program (and not just because I'm going to be in it, LOL). For the dog lovers out there, check out this clip! Love, Disco 

Yes, a new video - from old footage, that is. Hey, it's like, um, upcycling? Recycling? Something? Whatever it is, I hope you enjoy it. XOXO, Disco 

So sad about Leonard Nimoy's passing. He was Mr. Spock and so much more. To paraphrase Spock, Nimoy "has been, and always shall be, my friend." Live long and prosper, everyone. <3, Disco 

Have you seen my very first video? My humans made it simply to show out-of-town friends and family what a surprisingly chatty baby bird they had. (:>) Love, Disco 

Thank you for the invitation! (:>)

Hey, wow - it's ME!

This is absolutely wonderful!