Sunny was beyond obsessed with the bell. You’d go to the pet store and buy this glom of seeds and gorp that was shaped like a bell. Hang it in his cage and he’d peck at it. When all the seeds were gone, he was left with this small ball of a bell on a plastic stick which was attached to the cage.

He’d just attack it. Who knows why? Something in his brain either thought it was a dire enemy or a Pavlovian trigger for food or he just liked the tinny ring more than life itself. He’d knock at if relentlessly until you took it away. Put it back a week later and he’d slave over it. We thought it hilarious.

I remember [Industry Figure] Ruppo was entranced. Ed would move the bell around the cage and watch Sunny hop around in hot pursuit. Fungus from that bird would probably grow anytime a bell was rung nearby.