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'Love-sick' parrot put on 'Prozac' to beat the blues!


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London, Jan 14 (ANI): A blue-fronted Amazon parrot An Amazon parrot is a large parrot of the genus Amazona native to the New World ranging from South America to Mexico and the Caribbean.

Most Amazons are predominantly green, with accenting colors that depend on the species and can be quite vivid.
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The seven-year-old parrot is besotted with owner Joyce Greenslade, 43, and went into a rage whenever her husband Stephen went close to her, reports the Sun.

Chico would swoop down and peck at him with its claws as well as flapping its wings and letting out a loud parrot 'scream' as a warning.

The couple, from Cullompton, Devon, took their beloved pet to a vet who referred her to parrot 'shrink'.

Now the neurotic parrot has been put on the bird equivalent of Prozac and started on a behavioural course to combat her jealousy. (ANI)

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