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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Izzy Hawksworth & Ellie Kemp

Pub punters warned about foul-mouthed parrot who can't stop dropping the F-bomb

A foul-mouthed parrot has been banned from watching TV because he can't stop dropping the F-bomb after picking up bad language - from action films.

Louis the African Grey parrot often goes on 'rants' and 'starts shouting the F-word' around customers in the pub he lives in. Owner Andy Ashby, 50, says the five-and-a-half year old parrot is now that bad he's trying to stop the bad language by getting the bird to socialise with his punters rather than letting him watch TV.

And he's even had to put a note on his cage in his pub, the Nailmakers Arms in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, to warn others of the swearing and that he could bite them if they get too close. Andy said: "He will squeal and then say hello and come out with a couple of words.

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