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The world's most intelligent parrot according to the 2003 Guinness book
of world records is an African grey (psittacus erithacus) named Alex.
Alex knows the words for more than 35 objects and seven colors in addition to other feats.

The bird with the most Vocabulary is a budgerigar called Puck.
Puck is owned by Camillee Jordan (USA). By the time of death in 1994,
Puck knew and estimated 1,728 words.

Dog with largest repertoire of tricks.
This title was retained for the 4th time, by defending champion, the one an only Chanda-Leah. (AKA World's Smartest Dog)
We here at PetHall would like to point out to Guinness that our records on Chanda-Leah show more than 1000 tricks.

We have been following the career of this amazing poodle since she first appeared in the Guinness Book of World Records in 1999. At that time Chanda was performing over 300 tricks. We were delighted to see her back again in the year 2000, beating her own record with over 500 tricks.

In the Guinness Record books for 2002 and 2003, we were very disappointed to see that not only were their records not up-to-date, but, they were not even accurate.

*Guinness should note that when a dog knows all the letters of the alphabet, it counts as '26' tricks not '1'. If a dog recognizes A , B, C, and D, it counts as '4' tricks.

The honor for Most successful police dog goes to Trepp
who is credited with more than 100 arrests (up to 1979) and the recovery
of over $63 million worth of narcotics. The hard work this working dogs
contribute to humanity is incredible

Indian zoo loses 10 Bengal tigers

Bhubaneshwar,India                  
Ten sick Royal Bengal tigers, including seven white 
rare tigers, died one by one at the Indian zoo despite
being treated with antibiotics, officials stated 
Wednesday, July 5,2000.
The Nanankanan Zoo houses India's largest collection of 
Royal Bengal Tigers and the largest collection of white 
tigers in the world. They have been fighting to care for 
the animals since a  cyclone nearly devastated the zoo  
last year. Veterinarians administered the medicine after 
finding the first  dead tiger. The cause of death is believed 
to be sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis, caused by 
tsetse flies. Iron Mike Tyson has once been pictured with a
white tiger and reportedly keeps one as a pet in addition to 
his pigeons.

DOG FORCES PLANE TO LAND
Airliners make unscheduled landings almost every day for sick passengers. But a United Airlines cross-country flight was diverted to Denver on Saturday 3rd June 2000 for a freezing dog.
The flight united 231 out of Dulles Airport in suburban Virginia, was about halfway into its four hour, 45-minute trip to San Jose when an alert United employee discovered that a baggage handler had goofed. A dog has been mistakenly loaded into the chilly forward cargo hold of the Airbus A320 instead of the rear hold, which is properly heated.
If the dog wasn't dead yet, it could well be soon!
The pilot and dispatcher made a quick decision. The plane should land as soon as possible, and Denver was the best alternative. But first they had to tell the owner.
Flight attendants were dispatched to get the the unwitting owner, Mike Bell, a quality assurance manager for Network Associates Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif. They hesitated at his seat: the screen saver on Bells laptop was a picture of Dakota, the dog in question, a 10-year old Basenji. Bell had raised him from a pup. Contd. click here

MOST TRICKS PERFORMED BY A DOG

Chanda-leah, a champagne -colored toy poodle from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, performs more than 500 tricks. Sharon Robinson her guardian has taught the six-year-old to play the piano, count, and spell. The dog has appeared on numerous US television shows, including Regis and Kathie Lee and The Maury Povich Show. Chanda-Leah now has her own Publicist.

MOST SUCCESSFUL DRUG-SNIFFER

Iowa a black Labrador retriever used by the Port of Miami and trained by
Armando Johnson, made 155 drug seizures worth a record $2.4 billion. Iowa is handled by the Chief of Canine Operations for the Port of Miami.

MOST PROFICIENT TALKING PARROT

Alex, an African Grey parrot, has learned words for more than 35 objects and seven colors and can make a distinction between three, four, five, and six-sided shapes. He has an accuracy average of 80%.

FAMOUS DOG

Picture of Buddy and the President

Buddy the former First dog ( President Clintons dog) may not be the most popular dog in the world but it will go down in history as a pet that shared the camera limelight with the worlds most powerful First Family in the face of scandal.
Buddy held its ground through out this period and never once was the President nor we the American public ashamed of his countenance.
We the people of PetHall salute the Labrador named BUDDY.

Buddy passed away in 2001. See memorial

MOST PEOPLE AT A PETS FUNERAL

The number is 10,000 mourners for the most people in a pets funeral in the case of Jimmy the canary from New jersey in 1920. Jimmy's owner, Cobbler Edidio Rusomanno had the bird's body placed in a white casket. The procession was followed by two buses and a 15-piece band.

Source: Guinness World Records 2000

MOST EXPENSIVE CAT

The Californian Spangled cat is the most expensive cat in the world. In 1987, a California Spangled sold for $24,000 to an anonymous movie star.
This cats for which there are fewer than 200 specimens of the breed in the world was originally bred by Paul Casey, who crossed various types to develop a new breed of domestic cat intended to resemble the spotted wildcat.

HIGHEST EARNING LITERARY DOG

Highest-earning literary dog. In 1991, Springer spaniel Mildred Kerr, Millie for short, brought in a salary more than four times bigger than that of her owner, President George Bush, when her "autobiography" sold 400,000 copies. "Dictated" to first Lady Barbara Bush, Millie's Book was described as "an under-the-table look at life in the Bush family." It made a total of $900,000.

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