A rare photograph of Aves Macnibilae in her natural habitat.
For those of you who haven't seen this trick in person (or in bird, as the case may be) the bathtub lady is a wind-up penny bank. You put a coin (or a beak) on the button at the end of the tub and the lady's foot extends, ostensibly to pull a penny into the bank. Cheepers discovered long ago and quite serendipitously that if she pushed this button, the leg would come out. The first time it happened, Cheepers squawked and flew away, but now it is her favorite game. Other popular passtimes include sports that can only be translated as "pushing remotes off table and watching them as they make resounding crash on hardwood floor" and "chasing bottlecaps on cardboard box lid guided by magnet salvaged from AM radio speaker cone".

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