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In reply to the discussion: What's the most intelligent thing your pet has ever done? [View all]catbyte
(38,660 posts)My folks got her for me on Easter when I was 6. I was an only child so she was my best friend and she despised everybody but me. Everybody else called her the "Ol Dragon. My dad had to make sure she wasn't around if he wanted to yell at me because, if she were within earshot, she would attack him.
The only time I ever annoyed her was when I took up the oboe in the 7th-grade band. She hated that thing. To be fair, oboes sound like a ruptured duck before you get the hang of it. She'd come up while I was practicing and bite the bell of the instrument to express her displeasure. It got to the point where I'd practice only when she was outside or if she were inside, I'd practice in the car, lol. It was a school instrument, so I'm fairly sure that some student is playing that oboe with Yum Yum's tiny little teeth marks on the bell.