III.ÇITIR

Çıtır was a lovebird, but he was more than an animal for us.He was the member of our family.He was like my brother and my parent’s child.I had got three birds up to now.Each of them had the name of Çıtır.This Çıtır was the third and the last one.So we called him III.Çıtır like a sultan.His sultanship began in November 2007, finished in May 2009.That is to say , it lasted for two years long.
When I bought him first he could fly, but in the course of time he forgot flying and became to walk like us.When he wanted to go up table, armchair or any place in high position, he used us as elevator.He could speak like most lovebirds do.He could play with words that we said to him.For example;we said ‘koştur’, he changed it as ‘vıştır’.It had no meaning, yet he was sultan he could say whatever he wanted to say.He used to say it so long like Denizli rooster that it made us laugh happily.Sometimes he came to our breakfast table and ate pieces of bread ,green vegetables, carrot,cucumber... In one of these days when my parents was having breakfast at balcony,he was shouting persistently to let his sound hear as if he had wanted to say come and take me your table.My mother heard his insistent shout, she took him and put to her shoulder, but in the beauty of spring Çıtır wasn’t interested in the breakfast. Suddenly he flied as far as he could go.Because he wanted to add his elegance to the beauty of spring, yet he didn’t know that nature was pitiless.At that moment cats were lying sleepily in the avenue.When they saw Çıtır on the ground,they encircled him and ate all of a sudden.Now he learned how dangerous the natural world is, but it was too late…