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Oct 28, 2019 18:55
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Agent355 posted:Birds are good friends.
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Oct 28, 2019 22:43
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Agent355 posted:Birds are good friends. I agree!! <3
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Oct 28, 2019 23:20
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Birds are wonderful bitey bastards. As promised, photos of his birdy bald spot. I can't tell if it's gotten bigger or not because I didn't really dig into it yesterday. He's so warm in there! I hope his tum isn't too cold  A copy of these is going over to the vet as well.He flew over to visit me while I was posting this, too.   
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Oct 29, 2019 00:22
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He certainly doesn't seem bothered by it at any rate. 
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Oct 29, 2019 00:53
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oh my god bathing face
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Oct 29, 2019 01:37
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Got the email back from the vet. Based on the pictures, she wants me to go ahead and bring him in Thursday morning. Feeling a little scared and a little sad. Poor little green bean.
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Oct 29, 2019 15:26
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Yet another spray today. Gotta bring the birds to my sister's for the day. It's - 11C, the coldest day we've had yet this year, and I'm not sure tiels are made for that. I guess we'll blast the heat in the car.
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Oct 29, 2019 15:36
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I read that small parrots are fine with temperatures down to 40 F. When we lost power last winter, Nemo was visibly uncomfortable when the temperature dropped below 50. She's really old, though.
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Oct 29, 2019 15:43
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Halloween Jack posted:I read that small parrots are fine with temperatures down to 40 F. When we lost power last winter, Nemo was visibly uncomfortable when the temperature dropped below 50. She's really old, though. It's been getting chilly in the daytime here. I've been trying to get the whole "taking birds outside in the travel cage to get sunlight/fresh air" thing done but frankly its been cold this month!! So we havent really done much of that as I would like...I ordered new light bulbs so hopefully that will help with the light situation. But anyway, I digress. It's been cold here, about 45-55 daytime highs, so I have resorted to standing with them on me in front of the storm door with the window down and the screen up, so they can get the fresh air and light. It's not as good as throwing them outside in their cages with me in a chair and a book :P But it works. They seem ok with the chilliness, but we are only there for about 20 mins or so before *I* get too cold and make them go in and shut the door. They don't seem especially floofed/shivering or anything, but seem to be ok with it.
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Oct 29, 2019 16:46
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Well, it's warmed up to 19 F. This time of year, local parrots that get out tend to freeze to death overnight. This is a personal nightmare of mine ever since some sociopath I used to work with flippantly told me the story of how this happened to his sister in law's parrot, she'd had him for years, but hey, her house is much cleaner now! We made it in one piece, at least. No one is happy, but they're getting good about car rides.
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Oct 29, 2019 16:50
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RoboRodent posted:Well, it's warmed up to 19 F. This time of year, local parrots that get out tend to freeze to death overnight. This is a personal nightmare of mine ever since some sociopath I used to work with flippantly told me the story of how this happened to his sister in law's parrot, she'd had him for years, but hey, her house is much cleaner now! well, tbh, I would be willing to guess that they know in some way that this is for them, and you are trying to help them be safe. Yeah, happiness is secondary, but they know you love them and are doing your best so I am sure they survive and deal with it. Last year, or the year before...can't remember now... I had to drop off Cricket (this was Pre-Trevor) for an emergency boarding. I had to fly out of state to my mom to help my mom get home from the out of state hospital she was in to get back to California. Fun times that ugh. Anyway, I couldn't get my car up the hill (unexpected heavy snow yay) to the bird sitters, so I got to park at the bottom of their driveway, then trek little birdie up the hill in the knee-deep snow, carrying her in her travel cage, her bag of toys/perches/food etc, and heavy towels covering her as we trekked 3/4 of a freakin mile up the drive in the snow  I was not having a good day!! She was so good tho, but she was cold...its the only time I've seen her use her little travel fluffy sleeper in that travel cage. Poor baby could even see her little birdie breath puffs We made it tho, and she looked like a little fluffy tennis ball by the time we got there. I felt so bad for her, but we made it. I covered her travel cage in her heavy towels to try to keep the cold off her as much as I could, but, yeah Below freezing is wayyyyy out of their comfort range. I am paranoid that my little ones will get out in the cold and not be able to take care of themselves. I saw a little yellow-green parakeet last year, and i tried to catch him...he was hanging on my storm door screen cheeping at me. When I tried to gently open the door he got spooked and flew to the ground. I tried to talk to it and tossed a few seeds nearby for him (was going to try to grab him) but he got spooked and took off Haven't seen it again, and I keep hoping he made it thru the winter or found a home... poor thing I did make a post and talked to Parrots 911 on FB etc, but...yeah. Poor baby...I dont think he made it but I can pretend.
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Oct 29, 2019 19:38
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Spare-Ohs posted:Got the email back from the vet. Based on the pictures, she wants me to go ahead and bring him in Thursday morning. Feeling a little scared and a little sad. Poor little green bean. Be safe Kepler
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Oct 29, 2019 19:59
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Disco Salmon posted:well, tbh, I would be willing to guess that they know in some way that this is for them, and you are trying to help them be safe. Yeah, happiness is secondary, but they know you love them and are doing your best so I am sure they survive and deal with it. Honestly, the fact that I can't sit down and explain to them that I know this is unpleasant, I don't like it either, but we need to do it because of X reason, and I will never ever purposely hurt you, is a thing that eternally bothers me with pets. And Ozzy's trust in me seems so fragile sometimes. As far as Sera's concerned, I'm his mom, and I can pick him up and hold him upside down and kiss his belly, and even when he complains about it, there's no fear there, but I'd still like to have a conversation or two with him. I WILL COME BACK. I ALWAYS COME BACK.
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Oct 29, 2019 21:07
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RoboRodent posted:Honestly, the fact that I can't sit down and explain to them that I know this is unpleasant, I don't like it either, but we need to do it because of X reason, and I will never ever purposely hurt you, is a thing that eternally bothers me with pets. And Ozzy's trust in me seems so fragile sometimes. Yeah, I wish I could make SURE that they know that. But, all I can do is explain it to them as if they were my own kids, in as simple terms as I can manage...and hope my body language shows it. It seems to be working tho... for the most part, they are very good about having to do things they don't want to do. They have their moments, tho 
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Oct 29, 2019 22:47
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I mean, definitely I'm not going to stop talking to them like they understand me. We're home, property management is pretty confident this was the last spray, I found out that the source of this was a dude living on the second floor who's had bedbugs for a year (but never notified anyone and has been "treating it himself" and refused to let maintenance in his apartment, so he's been evicted), and Ozzy managed to come out of the travel cage all on his own, which has been a problem because he absolutely panics when faced with hands reaching in to get him, but he also couldn't quite convince himself he was able to exit the travel cage on his own. I might've been squatted down going YOU CAN DO IT. IT'S RIGHT HERE. COME ON, OZZY, YOU'VE GOT THIS YAAAAAAAAY WHAT A GOOD BIRD YOU ARE YOU DID IT ALL BY YOURSELF. Still going to leave the furniture pulled away from the wall until I'm sure this is done, though.
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Oct 30, 2019 01:01
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Cold weather is way worse for parrots than warm generally I sometimes get anxious about Crouton and Galbedir upending their water dish when they go to the vet or otherwise travel and the vet reminds me they are desert birds and can go an hour without water fine. Similarly, so long as they have a bath and lots of drinking water and aren't stuck in the car boot most are fine with Queensland summers. Below freezing is very different. Chickens manage in snowy climates by eating loads and becoming living heat generators (if you raise them prepare for feed costs to at least double in winter), but a wild parrot will have immense difficulties finding enough food to break even.
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Oct 30, 2019 09:50
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Pinto is enjoying as many pecans as he wants today. Because today is the one year adoptaversary. Here, have an image dump of Pinto "Bean" O'Reno  https://www.instagram.com/p/B3788msleYw/   https://www.instagram.com/p/BtYrXXKFLQD/  https://www.instagram.com/p/Btdv-qEFTe5/ https://twitter.com/niceoneWern/status/1161775564010790913 https://www.instagram.com/p/BqCzb6VFN74/ https://twitter.com/niceoneWern/status/1092277598774878208
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Oct 30, 2019 13:10
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_qxojRrv24
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Oct 30, 2019 16:35
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Yes, it's me
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Oct 30, 2019 16:40
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i need to make this into my ringtone
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Oct 30, 2019 16:47
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Rotten Cookies posted:
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Oct 31, 2019 11:05
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Huge rear end in a top hat or not, he still got cake. https://twitter.com/niceoneWern/status/1189682810514214913 Slices or apple, pear, peach, a bit of yogurt, grapes, dried papaya, and pecans. All of Pinto's favorite snacks.
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Oct 31, 2019 13:11
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I saw the pinto earring video appear on some bird account on Instagram earlier. 100k+ views. Pinto rocks
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Oct 31, 2019 13:34
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Rotten Cookies posted:Huge rear end in a top hat or not, he still got cake. 
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Oct 31, 2019 14:19
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Turn on your sound for happy cockatiel chirps https://twitter.com/J_grandiflorum/status/1189903167510609920
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Oct 31, 2019 16:03
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Pinto's satisfied little warks after he launches the earring are excellent.
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Nov 1, 2019 01:40
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On Halloween many years ago, I got Wandy. I wasn't looking for a bird, but my friend knew I had a cockatiel when I was a little kid and called me about Wandy. (Named Tazzie at the time.) I went to visit her and instantly took her home. She wolf whistled at me when I walked through the door. I freaking loved that bird so drat much. Wandy saw me through some incredibly dark times and sometimes know I had to take care of her is what saw me through to the next day. When the vet met her, his prognosis was, "She is OLD but healthy. We can't really count the rings on her like a tree, so we will just say she is at least over twenty." Miss you every day, Wandy. Two years ago, I was very ill. I didn't have the diagnosis yet, but I was dropping weight, unable to eat, and in a bad way. My father made me go get Serra for my mental health. Even though my scariest days of medical stuff was ahead of me, Serra got me through to a happy point in my life where I had a treatment plan and could think past the next month again. Love you, Ms. Serra. Halloween in my household is Bird Bring Home Day. Serra, you have been an absolutely hysterical little sass filled darling. I cannot wait for the years of fun we have ahead of us, Bird. Share stories about your Official Bird Bring Home Day.  Pictured - Serra will demand scritches by walking up to my chin and plonking her head forward. Awww. 
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Nov 1, 2019 04:09
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That's really lovely, Captain. Sera I got almost by accident. I kept rats for years, and I still love them, but the 2 year lifespan was starting to get to me, as at that point I had lost five rats, had one very elderly rat, and a middle-aged pair of rats. I expected to have rats for about another year, but I knew I had to find a different pet that I could have where I was living at the time. I had... always really wanted a bird. Been fascinated by birds since I was really young, but never had one. I started doing research, touched on cockatiels as good option, but also something to look into down the road. In a year or so. Not now. One day I walked into the pet store here in town to pick something or other up, wandered through the (really well-kept) small animal section, and discovered a group of ~3 month old cockatiels. I said hello, and most just stared at me warily, but one of them settled on my wrist to consider me carefully, and I talked and played, and then I bid the plucky little bird goodbye and went home. About 24 hours later, I came back (about fifteen minutes before closing, which is a thing I hate doing), and left with bird and cage and food and toys. That was Sera. I found Ozzy through someone on Facebook who was trying to rehome a group of cockatiels that had come out of a bad situation. I don't know a lot of the details, but I know there were five birds that went to four different homes, because the aggression between them was so bad she thought it best to separate them. I picked him up and brought him home, and it was really just the polar opposite of Sera. He screamed, he was obviously afraid, he tried to bite. When I got home, he made a small noise, and Sera was so startled he fell off his perch. Man, after the initial shock, Sera tried so goddamn hard to make friends with Ozzy. Just singing at him all the time. Ozzy was supicious and aloof and refused to let Sera within six inches of him, but he very quickly latched onto Sera as a sort of security, and was only calm if he could see Sera, and occasionally got upset if I was being very physical with Sera. You know, I have a notion that the reason he completely melted down on that first car ride to my sister's to avoid the spray is that overwhelmingly his experience with car rides would be "and then you're in a strange place with strangers and you never seen your old life again." He's been completely calm on every subsequent ride. So one was love at first sight, and the other was a typhoon. Right now, there are fireworks a few streets over, and every now and then there's a sleepy grumble from under the sheet.
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Nov 1, 2019 05:40
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Kepler update: little beeper is a-okay. We went in for our vet visit on Thursday and he just hated it! Our avian doctor is a dream, though, and she's almost positive this is hormonal plucking based on the pattern of loss. Kepler is terminally horny. He's just about two years old now and has evidently been tricking me into bird marriage. He arranges the sheets/my sleeve/the leg of my pants very nicely, I tell him he's done a very good job, he thinks, "Ah yes! This is consent! TIME FOR gently caress." It isn't time for gently caress. Sorry, baby. I've been soundly scolded and grounded from snuggling with him. I'm making a new low sugar-low starch chop for him this weekend and I'm going to make a bunch of foraging toys to keep him busy through the week. The vet has suggested I make a video of myself to play for him on nights I'm in class. This feels very silly to me, but I'll do it FOR HIM.  NO MORE LOVE. ONLY CHILL BIRD CIVILITY IN THIS HOUSE.
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Nov 1, 2019 15:50
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Spare-Ohs posted:Kepler update: little beeper is a-okay. We went in for our vet visit on Thursday and he just hated it! Our avian doctor is a dream, though, and she's almost positive this is hormonal plucking based on the pattern of loss. Kepler is terminally horny. I can't help but think that given Kepler's inclinations, and various mentions of what other birds are like in this thread when they're horny, you're functionally gonna be making porn for him to masturbate to.
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Nov 1, 2019 16:03
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RoboRodent posted:That's really lovely, Captain. awwww poor Oz!!! Yeah, I think he just needed to know that not EVERY car ride ends in "getting left in a strange scary place with no one you know". He just needed that security of knowing YOU were going to be with him and you would take him HOME and he was fine That is so sweet...makes me want to cry. then again my hormones are all crazy atm so I cry at everything lol I know with us, we try so hard to use our words with our birds, and explain everything like they are little humans. I dont know how much it actually works, but I notice that when mine get freaked out in the travel cage, if I take a few minutes to explain that we are doing this, and doing that, and we need to go here and there, but we will come back home...they do better. Trev does especially not good on car rides...he gets so car sick, and with his past, I wonder if he associates the car noise with not nice things. Anyway, with him, as long as we tell him we are going to do this and that, and that we will go home and have sweet birdy dreams, he calms down quick. I often wonder what he remembers about his start in life, but I think they did make an impression on him. Anyway, I think they just need the security of knowing that home is home, and home is where the love is And the snacks.Spare-Ohs posted:Kepler update: little beeper is a-okay. We went in for our vet visit on Thursday and he just hated it! Our avian doctor is a dream, though, and she's almost positive this is hormonal plucking based on the pattern of loss. Kepler is terminally horny. poor little guy, He's trying so HARD to make you love him like he wants and you keep shooting him down...the video thing is adorable tho I've had to cut back on snuggles with Trev a bit as well. He's the same age, about, as your Kepler is. My Mr Bird has decided that of all my body parts, my ear is the prime shagging material. ATM he is on a grounding from all shoulders, and Mr. Bird is not pleased. Its quite funny tho, he would get on my shoulder and start kissing my ear, then whisper "Sweet birdy, good birdy, good job kiss kiss mmmm love birdy" and so on and then grab my ear in long birdie toes and commence to start trying to shag lol We were not sure if the whole whispering in the ear thing was him telling me I was a good bird or him trying to convince me HE was a good bird. At least he isn't plucking...but he does mess with the ends of his squiddy fleecey strands, so maybe that is his sub for plucking? Disco Salmon fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Nov 1, 2019 17:37
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Yeah, I explain everything too. I suspect they understand more words than I realise, and tone of voice and body language makes up for the rest. Really, we exist in a situation where I understand some cockatiel and they understand some English and we meet in the middle. I have a name in cockatiel and it appears to be two short notes, the second slightly higher pitched than the first. It can be yelled because they can't see me or it can be pleasantly chirped as a happy greeting in the morning. It's kind of wild identifying the name your pet gave you.
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Nov 1, 2019 17:55
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Neddy Seagoon posted:I can't help but think that given Kepler's inclinations, and various mentions of what other birds are like in this thread when they're horny, you're functionally gonna be making porn for him to masturbate to. Okay I was already snickering at Kepler's diagnosis of TERMINALLY HORNY and now just 
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Nov 1, 2019 19:17
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RoboRodent posted:Yeah, I explain everything too. I suspect they understand more words than I realise, and tone of voice and body language makes up for the rest. lol yeah, I love the names we get from our birds With us...my husband is Birdie Bird or Daddy's Home lol With me, it is usually Baby. When they know we are in the house, and can't see us...its Cheep Cheep, but that's more of the flock call. My husband says that when I am gone shopping or whatever out of the house, they will say "Hey Baby" so he thinks they are looking for me.I *think* tho, that Cricket calls me her version of Momma, sometimes tho...it certainly sounds like it, and only when I have been gone/away from the house. I refer to myself like that...as in Momma will be right back, don't worry etc" and when I am gone and come back...she greets me with a big kiss and a noise that sounds like Momma. Its definitely not baby or bird or any other thing she says... it's always this particular sound in the same cadence. Trev just calls me variations of baby or bird lol Pretty bird, baby bird, sweet bird, love baby, and so on. It's quite funny
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Nov 1, 2019 20:39
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Okay I was already snickering at Kepler's diagnosis of TERMINALLY HORNY and now just Im loving these stories!  Hey Ms. LAB the Good Birb Mod - can I take you up on that offer to revert from my Halloween gift AV to my old one? I can throw five bucks at the forum if needed. You’re the best. 
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Nov 1, 2019 20:54
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Captain Log posted:Im loving these stories! I'm pretty sure I did it before you asked 
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Nov 1, 2019 21:06
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I'm pretty sure I did it before you asked I was phone posting, so I may not have noticed. You are the best. 
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I'm going out of town for the next week so my PARENTS have had the birds since yesterday. They're having fun but man, the house is so quiet without them. edited: Derp. Parents not birds. Jose Oquendo fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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