Mitch could not believe what his eyes were seeing. His mom’s beautiful walnut dining table and table lamp were in pieces, and the accused culprit was Julius, the perfectly pesky pet parrot. Julius annoys everyone with his phone imitations, thefts, and ear-splitting squawking. But when Julius scares away a suspicious salesperson and chases two mean dogs away, Mitch and his family start to believe that Julius isn’t as pesky as they thought.