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After everyone was succeeding in teaching their tiels jingle bells on here, I thought I would teach Willow it (obviously this was before Xmas). So she didn't do it for Christmas and I gave up. And now she's singing it loud and clear! She does the 'Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way'. I am just hoping she'll forget it! :p

Obviously, she doesn't want to festive season to end! :D
 

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Wow!! Are you sure she's a she?? :p Try teaching her a new whistle to, hopefully, overwrite the old one. I'm trying myself a new whistle so that i can teach Bailee - jingle bells is still his favourite. :rolleyes:
 

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Are you sure she's a she??
I have been wondering that over the past couple of weeks. She has suddenly become very vocal, and extremely loud! :eek:It's weird because she's never vocal when say shes on my shoulder, but very vocal in her cage and while she's on her own. She's not with me at the moment and I can hear her chatting away to herself... and singing jingle bells. :blush:

I'll try and teach her a new whistle as well, but It's going to be hard to delete Jingle Bells from her head. :p
 

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Bailee begun as a secret singer, i could always hear him chattering away like an idiot up in my brothers room, but the second you looked in on him he shut up. :p Jingle Bells is a pretty long whistle, so i would take a guess and say Willow is a boy.
 

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Deja vue!!!!!

The breeder where we got our little darlings from is a lovely lady, but sheesh, she said Dooby was a girl as well. So.........keep reading Rosie, you might pick up some tips from the BBC (Bad Boys Club) because Willow will be a member soon!!!


Oh yes and we still have a rowdy rendition of Jingle Bells from the Doobster several times a day.
 

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So.........keep reading Rosie, you might pick up some tips from the BBC (Bad Boys Club) because Willow will be a member soon!!!

Oh yes and we still have a rowdy rendition of Jingle Bells from the Doobster several times a day.
LOL!! That made me laugh. :lol:

You hsould get a video of him singing Jingle Bells.
That would never happen! Willow never sings near me, only when she in her cage or out, but with no one around. She's a strange girl or boy! :rolleyes:

I just can't think that Willow - my girl, is a little boy. I've been thinking about having a DNA test for her, because maybe she's just a chatty girl, like Laura's Minnie. You see, she sings Jingle Bells, but not amazingly well. She does the Jingle all the way in one tone. As you can probably tell, I want her to be a girl.! :blush:
 

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I really wanted Cookie to be a boy, and she never made a peep in her first couple of months here. After some wishful thinking during her first moult i admitted she was a girl. So then i really wanted Bailee to be a girl, hehe, but he was chattering like a manic in his first week. :rolleyes: I think you will enjoy Willow just as much whether she's a male or a female. Males are awesome! They're hilarious, chatty, dorky and if you get a Bailee, then super cuddly as well.
 

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Minnie is a chatty female she wolf whistles and chatters to herself but she does not whistle songs mind you I have never taught her any so I don't know if she could actually do them I just stupidly had it in my head that she is female she won't learn them so I really don't do enough of that with her, for the most part she is quiet she just goes in spurts.
Willow probably doesn't do it well yet because "he" is just learning give it some time he will be doing it like a pro...lol it really sounds like a you have male though.
It took me a long time to get a video of Ollie talking ever time he saw the camera he would stop :p
 

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Yup, after the molt you'll be able to tell for sure. Either way, picking up songs like that is typical of a male. Ziggy didn't sing for a good while when I first got him and then he started in his cage..now he sings and talks everywhere...I think Willow is a boy at this point even though some females do pick up things like Laura's Minnie. Something like Jingle Bells would be too advaced for a female to pick up..Plus, boys are alot of fun!
 
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