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Ritz has been puking on everything the past couple days. New toy? Puke on it. Socks for Christmas? Gonna puke on those. Same couch that I've always had? Yep, puking on that too. drat horny holiday bird 
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My birbs got millet, it is exactly what they wanted today and every day of the year.
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Dec 26, 2015 00:20
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I'm visiting my folks in Florida but the bird sitter sent me this picture today.
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Dec 26, 2015 03:44
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blackflare posted:What did everyone's birds get from santa this year?? Fed and not cooked into a pie.
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Dec 26, 2015 05:28
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i wish the birds werent scared of me i dont do anything to them
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Dec 26, 2015 14:43
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blackflare posted:What did everyone's birds get from santa this year?? An entire bowl of pine nuts. I don't even know how to describe that degree of puzzled joy. Dreggon posted:i wish the birds werent scared of me i dont do anything to them Someday, my friend, you'll have your Disney/Hitchcock moment. Someday. Suntan Boy fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Dec 26, 2015 |
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Dec 26, 2015 16:31
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Dreggon posted:i wish the birds werent scared of me i dont do anything to them You are not showing them enough reverence. That is not fear, they are offended that you have not surrendered your house and all of your belongings to them yet, despite their royal decree.
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Dec 26, 2015 17:12
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Pookie got some toffee, like she does every year; she gets SO EXCITED about opening her own wrapping paper 
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Dec 27, 2015 02:16
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We didn't have a birbs secret santa this year. That would've been fun. My bird got a ton of seed and dove into it immediately. I think she bathed in it. Then bit me in retribution/thanks.
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Dec 27, 2015 03:48
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My bird got his life saved after I cut him loose from a dishcloth. He chewed a hole in it and then proceeded to get his head stuck in it AND hang from it by the neck. Idiot.
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Dec 27, 2015 16:28
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blackflare posted:What did everyone's birds get from santa this year?? I went home to see my parents over christmas. As I was leaving straight from work, Ozzie got left in his carrier cage next to a cup full of sunflower seeds in the staff canteen. The checkout girls fed him to the point of exploding. One thing I did notice when I had him at home with my family is that he's gotten a lot more bitey than the last time I had him there. He's fine with me, but almost immediately sinks his beak into anyone else. He's growing up to be a vicious little bastard.
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Dec 27, 2015 21:33
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blackflare posted:What did everyone's birds get from santa this year?? Toast got new jingly balls from me (his old favourite one is ???missing???) as well as sunnies and lots and lots and lots of cardboard and wrapping paper scraps to mangle. From my parents he got a little plastic foraging toy where the bird spins a wheel to open one of five compartments. It might be a bit bit for him so I may have to spin the wheel for him. He likes chewing it at any rate! He also got a cozy little triangular hut/nest, which is similar to one the breeder's lovebirds adore. She's sent me pics of them snuggled up in it and apparently they sometimes pile in two or three at a time  And from my brother he's got a fancy multi-branched perch made of a number of sticks threaded onto a metal skewer, with a few big gumnuts and seeds too, which he has declared his new favourite perch.
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Dec 28, 2015 01:18
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Dec 28, 2015 01:36
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Is that supbird saiyan 3?
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Dec 28, 2015 01:48
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I had a dream about this happening once...
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Dec 28, 2015 02:11
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jesus christ what is wrong with bird owners (lots) 
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Dec 28, 2015 02:16
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saw the title and noped out of that link, but not fast enough to not see the note that "this is the 5th one he's pulled"
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Dec 28, 2015 02:36
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No. No.
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Dec 28, 2015 03:18
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I can only imagine the consequences of teaching a bird it's okay to pry people's teeth out 
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Dec 28, 2015 03:21
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Now I want someone to teach a crow how to do this and then release it into the wild.
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Dec 28, 2015 04:31
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Shakenbaker posted:Now I want someone to teach a crow how to do this and then release it into the wild. "Yeah man, this crazy human lady kidnapped me and kept forcing my face in her mouth, and wouldn't let me out until I pulled a weird white thing out. It didn't even taste very good."
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Dec 28, 2015 04:51
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Must be a vacuum running nearby
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Dec 28, 2015 05:25
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I spent all day with an African Gray that my SO spent a lot of time with a few years ago. The owner is a professional raptor rehabilitator who hand raised her. She is two years old. They took us out to dinner and asked if we wanted first right of refusal in their will. They are elderly. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. In getting a cockatiel this spring, and now this prospect too.
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Dec 28, 2015 06:34
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Potato Salad posted:I spent all day with an African Gray that my SO spent a lot of time with a few years ago. The owner is a professional raptor rehabilitator who hand raised her. She is two years old. free african grey though
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Dec 28, 2015 07:51
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I would take a grey that liked me and my partner in a heartbeat. It might suck for it for about a month or so as I'm woefully unprepared financially, but I'd figure something out.
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Dec 28, 2015 10:56
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Say yes to the Grey, if you know it's fine with humans and you will get along.
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Dec 28, 2015 11:02
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I laughed far too hard at this.
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Dec 28, 2015 13:36
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learnincurve posted:I laughed far too hard at this. I was thinking the same thing about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV8d19DRQXM
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Dec 28, 2015 13:41
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My wife loves Greys. I can't get past the idea of having a pet that basically has a pair of pliers for a mouth.
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Dec 28, 2015 15:19
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Halloween Jack posted:My wife loves Greys. I can't get past the idea of having a pet that basically has a pair of tin snips for a mouth.
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Dec 28, 2015 15:43
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Frogmanv2 posted:I was thinking the same thing about this emus are the most excitable birds
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Dec 28, 2015 16:01
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There is a very good reason why in telecom people refer to cable shears and conduit snips as either 'cockies beak' or 'cockie cutters' (with cockie being short for cockatoo, because us Australians love to shorten every word).
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Dec 28, 2015 16:02
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GoldStandardConure posted:There is a very good reason why in telecom people refer to cable shears and conduit snips as either 'cockies beak' or 'cockie cutters' ahem
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Dec 28, 2015 16:06
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just trying to ease them into the slang slowly... she'll be right
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Dec 28, 2015 16:14
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GoldStandardConure posted:just trying to ease them into the slang slowly... fair suck of the sav
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I know this isn't the kind of birb we deal with, but good life advice. We had a really sudden and annoying exterminator notice last week (across the hall got bedbugs so we got a preventative spraying, thankfully no sign of the nasty things) so the potatolets had to go to my inlaws for a few days while things aired out (starting on the 22nd, didn't come back til Christmas day). They predictably got absolutely spoiled while they were there, and when they got home they got some new things to forage and chew and yell at. Huxley has this one adorable 'chkchkchk' noise he makes when he's being especially endearing that is the closest he's ever come to mimicking me (it sounds a bit like a kissy sound) and Bradbury has actually picked it up as well. Neither of them is screaming as much, which is a blessing since I'm on a medication that makes me more sensitive to it. Everyone being adorable, and mostly well behaved. A true birbmas miracle.Bradbury still bit the poo poo out of Mr. anachronism yesterday while he tried to get him to step up to help him get back up to his cage. Birbs. 
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Dec 28, 2015 16:46
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I would never shy away from a bird that bites hard, regardless of how big their beak is.
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Dec 28, 2015 16:48
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It's one thing to see when it's about to chomp you. You can brace and take it. It's entirely another when you and the bird have fallen asleep, he loses his balance because bird, and sinks three tines half an inch into your flesh to not fall over.
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Dec 28, 2015 20:08
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Napping with birds is the most dangerous thing. So often I'll be sleeping only to be woken up by a cockatiel angrily bumping at my nose for somehow offending him. It's cute when it's a cockatiel but man it'd be scary with a grey/too.
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Eejit posted:It's one thing to see when it's about to chomp you. You can brace and take it. It's entirely another when you and the bird have fallen asleep, he loses his balance because bird, and sinks three tines half an inch into your flesh to not fall over. Or into your shoulder because he woke up first and decided he liked the color of your shirt. Or into your ankle when you weren't looking because you had the gall to read while he was napping. Angry tin snips
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