These are my parakeets: Gen and Hugh, drawn as humans for the draw your pet challenge.

Gen is short for Genievre, which is French for juniper because that’s the shade of her blue coloring. Hugh, as his name infers, is a male, so named because he escaped the Borg collective (at the pet store). TNG fans will get the joke.

Gen is beautiful and she knows it. Consequently, she acts like she’s all that and a bag of seeds. She’s smart and curious and feels the need to be in charge, and will pout when she’s not. I have her wearing go-go boots because those boots are made for walking!

Hugh strikes me as a guy who’s content to just sit on the couch all day, eating, drinking, and getting fat. I pictured him holding a six-pack because...I think you get the idea.