There's a reason why we never had a dog growing up. We had a bird one time when I was little. It was yellow and green. His name was Oliver. It vanished from its cage one day, and I went to see if it got outside somehow... because the window was open. I saw Campbell playing with it. And he cut its wings off. Fully off. And was watching it try to walk away. Try to fly...with its bloody stumps. It kept losing its balance and falling over.

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