A pet parrot From early (1) ___________ (CHILD) Jane had always wanted a pet parrot. Her parents said that a parrot was an unsuitable pet, but Jane insisted. She (2) ___________ (DESPERATE) wanted one. Her father argued that a parrot would suffer from (3) ____________ (LONELY) if it lived in a house, and explained that pet parrots are caught by hunters, who need money and don’t care about protecting species. ‘Parrots are very (4) ____________ (OBEDIENCE) and don’t make good pets,’ he added. But Jane soon made a discovery. She found a pet shop which bred parrots instead of (5) ____________ (IMPORT) them, so she bought a tiny Australian parrot, which she called ‘Pixie’.