Kids & Family
Skateboarder Parrot Helps Owner's Mental Health
Brat the Parrot entertains visitors to Pier Plaza and is a service animal for his owner.
Along Seacoast Drive in Imperial Beach, or other parts of San Diego, you may run into the animated duo Brat the Parrot and his owner Greg Jagow.
Brat loves to eat ice cream but he's more than just a pretty, talking bird. He can skateboard, play hide-and-go seek, and for Jagow, Brat is a service animal.
Jagow is bipolar and schizophrenic. Sometimes Brat keeps him company, and sometimes he helps Jagow decipher what's real and what's not.
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