This morning, I was woken by the sound of the dog barking. We keep Oscar's crate in the corner of our bedroom. If he barks, it's very, very loud in there. This morning's barking sounded strange and muffled. In my groggy state, I just assumed Mr Moo had gotten up, taken Oscar into the office and closed the door. I wouldn't have thought any more about it except it continued. Mr Moo would never allow Oscar to bark continuously like that. I peered over the edge of the bed and found Oscar curled up sound asleep in his crate. What the frell? I managed to wake up enough to give a good listen to the "barking" I was hearing and sort where it was coming from. Are you ready for this? It was Stuka, the parakeet! Good grief. On the few nights when we put Oscar in his crate before we go to bed ourselves, he has some separation anxiety and does bark a bit. As per everything we've read, we just let him bark because any attention (even yelling at him to be quiet) is good attention in his eyes and encourages him to bark more. Apparently, the bird has heard this enough and has learned to mimic it. And, he's such a good mimic, it even sounds muffled because he has heard it through a closed door. Amazing little bird.