Charlie The Parrot Saves Owner From Intruders (VIDEO)

Who needs a guard dog to ward off invaders, when you have a bird as overprotective as Charlie?

The macaw helped save his owner Jack Dukes after two intruders allegedly entered his apartment in Fort Smith, Arkansas, early Monday morning, according to KFSM-TV News.

Dukes said he let the men into his home, thinking one of them was a neighbor in trouble, KFSM reports.

The men allegedly hit Dukes and demanded pills, but Charlie wasn't having any of it.

The parrot went into defense mode, squawking and taking "a chunk of skin" from one of the suspect's arms with his beak, Dukes told the station.

According to the Associated Press/Fox News, when Charlie "isn't attacking robbers, Dukes says he likes to eat banana pudding and fried chicken."

Charlie is being hailed as a hero, as he should be, but the parrot isn't the first to be rewarded for his heroism.

In 2009, Willie the parrot saved a little girl from choking. The bird began flapping its wings and yelling "Mama, baby" to its owner until she returned to the room to find the girl she was babysitting turning blue, according to the Associated Press.

In 2007, a parrot named Peanut imitated the sound of the fire alarm after it went off at 3 a.m. one morning, according to WTHR. The bird's squawking woke the mother from her sleep. She found the house filled with smoke, grabbed her children and Peanut, and darted out of the house.

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Comments

[Robt Christian]

10:57 AM on 09/22/2011

I have a blue/gold macaw who attacked a burglar also. Not sure if the guy still has his eyeball, he was pecked so much.

[SuperDaveOsborn]

12:06 AM on 09/22/2011

Never mind the freakin' chicken ! He can eat whatever the H he wants if he goes after bad guys !

What's wrong with you people ? Canibalisim ? He's a freakin bird !

I'm feedin' my rottweilers banana pudding & fried chicken from now on - and the potential home invadors scoping out my house better look out !!!

[Ossit]

09:25 PM on 09/21/2011

Anyone with a pet, what Charlie did isn't hard to understand. I didn't know a parrot could like chicken. Charlie I raise a drumstick to you.

[lite9389]

08:02 PM on 09/21/2011

The bird eats fried chicken? Isn't that cannibalism?

[Macawmom]

07:49 PM on 09/21/2011

Love this story! My blue and gold (a rescue) jumps up and down when the dogs are barking, and if they keep barking, she starts screaming. She's fine with other family members if I'm not there, but anyone who tries to grab her will end up in the ER. They don't take kindly to being grabbed. When I first got her, it took months for her to trust me totally, years before I could touch her tail (they'd pulled out all her tail feathers), but she's the sweetest, most wonderful bird around me. Never regretted getting her. She does talk, both parrot and English.

[whatsmyline]

07:23 PM on 09/21/2011

This reminds me of the joke about a parrot warning a house burglar that "Jesus is watching you". The burglar startled shown his flashlight on the parrot and asked whether he said that. "Yep, the parrot responded. " I just trying to warn you." And who are you the burglar asked? My name is Moses the parrot says. The burglar asked who would name a parrot Moses. The parrot responds, "the same people who named their Rottweiller, Jesus." LO!!! Y'all have a nice day!

[Tweetybird82]

06:18 PM on 09/21/2011

If Charlie's owner really wants to thank him, he needs to get him off the fatty foods (fried chicken?????) and onto a correct diet ALL of the time. There are multiple resources on the internet to help with this so there's no excuse for the bad diet....even if it is just a treat it's still a horrible choice and parrots will generally also regard fruits (in moderation of course due to the sugar) as a delightful treat.

[thm4usa]

05:58 PM on 09/21/2011

Are women and parrots related?

[Janie Pepper]

05:41 PM on 09/21/2011

Polly gets a cracker!

[happyjoyjoy333]

05:40 PM on 09/21/2011

Our parrot says lots of things like "good boy", "no"(he knows exactly what it means, and usually says it when we try to put him in his nightime cage for sleeping), "want some?" (when he wants what we are eating), "stop it- be a good boy"(he says this when he knows he's done something he shouldn't and then he chastises himself.lol) ,etc. But my favorite thing is when he mimics the message beep on our phone. I went crazy hearing it and everytime I checked the message machine had no messages. Then by accident I heard Sweeps do it. He does the smoke alarm "dead battery" beep too. Drives us nuts until we realize it's him again.

[happyjoyjoy333]

05:34 PM on 09/21/2011

Our pet Conure (parrot family) is a GREAT Watchdog! Inside, with just us, he is normally pretty quiet. But he can see outside and when anybody steps one foot into our yard he squawks an ear-deafing squawk of alarm, and he won't stop until they leave.
Once, we had new furniture delivered and my husband took him from his cage in the living room to his cage in the bedroom so they could bring in the furniture. But as my husband was carrying Sweet-Pea down the hall, the movers opened the door to come in . Sweet-Pea jumped and flew directly at them squawking and biting and flapping. He was out for blood, and those two guys turn and ran as quick as they could. They were petrified of him, with good cause too, because if Sweeps had gotten to bite them he would have.

[jbeachboy]

05:15 PM on 09/21/2011

do they talk alot?

[thm4usa]

05:52 PM on 09/21/2011

Less that a wife would!

[1LTUSMC]

07:34 PM on 09/21/2011

If you develop a real close relationship with a Macaw, you can teach them to say almost anything. If you give them a lot of attention (and you should) they will learn much more and much faster. They will also say things and make sounds that you don't "teach" them which I have heard can be dangerous if someone in your household sometimes swears like a Marine.

[jbeachboy]

05:25 PM on 09/22/2011

i just cant stand the ones that talk all the time and make noises all day

[jacmed]

05:06 PM on 09/21/2011

You know, after reading all these posts I think I'm gonna go off-line and watch "Dr. Dolittle" with Rex Harrison, follow that up with Eddy Murphy's "Dr. Dolittle" and then, if I don't have a headache from too much movie-watching, follow that up with the most ridiculous (but most fun!) movie I've seen in a long time -- "Furry Revenge." So, bye everybody!

[1LTUSMC]

09:04 PM on 09/21/2011

Your plans for the evening sound a lot better than sitting here exchanging barbs with T-baggers. Have fun!

[jacmed]

09:44 PM on 09/21/2011

I did, 1L -- but only got through the Rex Harrison one. Neighbor showed up, wanted to talk, I brewed some tea and had a nice gabfest, neighbor left, I made dinner, fed my hubbie, and now it's too late to start a movie so I got back online! Best laid plans...oh, well!

[ThisAlreadyHappened]

04:49 PM on 09/21/2011

Isn't feeding a parrot fried chicken kind of like feeding an American an Ethiopian?

[YankeeCanuck]

05:17 PM on 09/21/2011

I think it's kinda like the reverse.

[1LTUSMC]

09:07 PM on 09/21/2011

It depends on which word(s) you left out:

like feeding an American to an Ethiopian?
like feeding an American with an Ethiopian?
like feeding an American by an Ethiopian?

[baylormaggenti]

04:46 PM on 09/21/2011

We need more or less Parrots in Washington.

[1LTUSMC]

06:24 PM on 09/21/2011

Yes! My vote goes to more of the brave winged and feathered variety and far less of the cowardly skin and hair variety. They both screech loudly--the feathered ones do it defensively while the ones with hair do it offensively.