Willie-the-Parrot Now a Hero; Helps Save Toddler from Choking
"…he started saying 'mama baby' over and over and over again until I came out and looked at Hannah, and Hannah's face was turning blue…"
(Colorado)—CBS-4 Denver reports on a small parrot, who quickly became a hero when he alerted his owner to the emergency taking place in front of his cage.
"Willie," a Quaker Parrot, and pet of babysitter, Meagan, began to frantically flap his wings and "scream" when the 2-year-old girl, Hannah, whom Meagan was babysitting, began to choke on her breakfast. (Photo: CBS-4 Denver)
Meagan was in the bathroom when she heard the parrot carrying on in the next room, and realized something must be wrong.
"Willie (the parrot) started screaming like I'd never heard him scream before and he started flapping his wings," Meagan recalled. "Then he started saying 'mama baby' over and over and over again until I came out and looked at Hannah, and Hannah's face was turning blue because she was choking on her Pop Tart."
Meagan sprang into action, performing the Heimlich maneuver, which stopped little Hannah's choking.
"If (Willie) wouldn't have warned me," noted Meagan, "I probably wouldn't have come out of the bathroom in time because she was already turning blue; her lips were blue and everything."
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