07:15 AM Mountain Standard Time on Friday, October 14, 2005

By Mike Watkiss / 3TV reporter

3TV

Truster with his parrot, Pete.

A parrot named Pete was stolen from his perch this past weekend.

70-year-old, Al Truster, brought his parrot, as he usually does, to the Detour Bar & Grill and set him on a perch outside near the front door.

When Truster went to retreive Pete, he discovered his parrot was missing.

"It has really hurt me bad," said Truster, "he's my baby... 46 years and he's gone."

Pete, who has been with Truster 46 years, had apparently been bird-napped.

"He'd bring the bird in all the time," said Lori, a bartender at Detour Bar & Grill. "[Pete] never hurt any body."

"I don't like the idea that somebody could be so cruel,' said bar patron, Abby. "To take his bird, I mean, it's killing him. He doesn't have anymore life in him."

Truster and Pete have been friends since his father brought the parrot back from a trip to Venezuela in 1959.

Truster says he's offering an award for Pete's return, "I haven't got much, but I've got $100 for a reward," said Truster. "Please bring her back to me. I'll take care of you."