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This is probably really easy, but I can't come up with a harder one.

Snowy is Tintin trusted pet all the time, but for a short while Tintin also has another pet, sort of. Where does this occur?

In the Broken Ear when he gets the parrot. Mr Balthazar's parrot, that is

In Cigars of the Pharaoh, where Tintin befriends an elephant?

R

On page 13 of "Cigars." Tintin is seen with a parrot in a cage which was sold to him by senhor Oliveira da Figueira.

Help, I'm going mad...

I was actually going to suggest Jocko!

Jocko would probably give Tintin a wide berth after seeing the way he treats chimpanzees in Tintin in the Congo!

However, Tintin does take temporary care of Jocko's big cousin Ranko the gorilla in the last few pages of The Black Island. I'm not sure if that counts as owning him, though, which is probably a necessary factor in defining an animal as a pet. On that basis, I suspect that Emerald and Cigars of the Beeper's answers are more likely to be right.

Oops this wasn't suppose to happen. I was looking for the parrot in Broken Ear which Tintin has as a pet for a short while.

Can't really say that the elephant will qualify as a pet, since it is not owned by Tintin.

The parrot in Cigars is surely bought and therefore owned by Tintin, although only for one frame. Sorry to say but that one slipped my mind.

I'm really sorry for messing this question up, but I would say Emerald and Cigars gets a point and Emerald is the one who gets the next question. If scorekeeper or Admin/Moderators think otherwise please step in.

EDIT: Balthazar posted as I was writing this, and it seems that my judgement on the elephant wasn't all wrong.