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Captain Log posted:Now if only I could teach my father to not get scared at a 128 gram butterball cockatiel bashing her head into his finger.  It's like a big dog getting chased around by a puppy
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Kitfox88 posted:
As many people here remember, my father was a self proclaimed "animal hater" until he met Wandy. He has scars on his chest from being mauled by two German shepherds and that's just one of his bad experiences. He hated most animals and had hard to argue reasoning about it considering his experiences. When he met Wandy, she loving flew to him and hissed at me when I tried to take her back. That was normally how she acted towards other people trying to take her from me. She had never met him before and had some sort of love at first sight with him. In Wandy's mind, I was the best human in the world...unless my Dad walked into them room.  It was years before circumstances saw us move in together, but I was terrified he wouldn't want pets. Not only does he enjoy the birds, he spoils Serra to death and helps care for them on his own volition. Blue and Yellow pretty much ignore us, but we will both catch ourselves pausing the TV to watch "Parakeet Days of Our Lives" going on in their little world.
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Feb 29, 2020 22:34
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RoboRodent posted:Cockatiels do love their drama. I'm discovering this at a fairly quick pace haha Captain Log posted:There are a lot of other cockatiel owners here with great experience that should weigh in too. I'm just one dude who has raised three lady birds. Thanks for this! We're always second guessing ourselves with him, but he's so bubbly he does seem to be happy most of the time. Except for the days we're both out all day. Then it's serious birdy cold shoulder, doesn't seem to last long though thankfully.
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Mar 1, 2020 09:10
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Caedes posted:I'm discovering this at a fairly quick pace haha 
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Mar 1, 2020 09:16
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 its spring, which means terra is honking at me from the corner of one of the kallax cubes next to my desk while rubbing her butt on everything send help
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Mar 1, 2020 16:18
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Faerie Fortune posted:
Ahahahahaha oh dear, I know that floofy hen posture too well!
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Mar 1, 2020 18:48
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I love how the BIG SCARY FLUFF pose has opposite the intended effect on humans.
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Mar 1, 2020 18:57
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a cockatiel trying to be scary is quite possibly the least threatening thing in the world, especially when shes as fat and fluffy as terra
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Mar 1, 2020 19:28
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Obligatory hissing cobra Serra post - https://youtu.be/-UO8AC72v0g
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Mar 1, 2020 19:44
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That's pretty cute although I will say we try not to bother birb in the cage as much as possible; I let him keep it as entirely his territory.
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Mar 1, 2020 19:54
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If you leave a lady bird to her own devices when that happens, you’re gonna get eggs. A whole host of problems comes with egg laying. Serra now has her cage bottom covered in egg crates to prevent nesting. From the day I started that, no more eggs or nesty behavior from her.
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Mar 1, 2020 20:06
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Ozzy does the same fluffy scary dance on the cage floor sometimes. No eggs yet from him. He is a mystery. I caught him trying to kiss Sera yesterday. I've never seen him do that. There was beak contact but I think Sera was a little unnerved because generally Ozzy protects his personal space pretty intensely, and I'm not sure he entirely trusted Ozzy not to bite him.
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Mar 1, 2020 20:13
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Captain Log posted:If you leave a lady bird to her own devices when that happens, you’re gonna get eggs. A whole host of problems comes with egg laying. For sure, before we had to put Hedy down I was always suspicious of some of her chirps when she was exploring extra-cage areas.
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Mar 1, 2020 20:15
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I very quickly found out that a budgie beak can easily penetrate skin when reaching inside the cage of a nesty lady budgie.
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Mar 1, 2020 20:17
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redgubbinz posted:I very quickly found out that a budgie beak can easily penetrate skin when reaching inside the cage of a nesty lady budgie. Yellow bites me harder than any of my pet birds have ever bit. Which makes it a ton of fun when she gets stuck somewhere. I just take a deep breath and take the punishment.
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Mar 1, 2020 20:28
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Amadeus was going hard with the burrowing behavior last month lmao, I think he mostly has it out of his system now thank goodness. Trying to keep him from diving between my pillows was like holding one of those squooshy water-filled toys from the 90s And while Charlemagne has not caught springtime fever (yet), I think he needs a wing trim because he will not loving leave my door frame alone and I have run out of things to try to mitigate this behavior. Months of trying to get him to stop nicely has left me with a destroyed door frame and broken dreams
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Mar 1, 2020 21:49
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Mayo bit me once but she was feeling cornered, I think. Pesto... just does not bite hard ever. The most he does is peck the source of his frustration really quickly (i.e: my finger when I'm constantly getting him to step up when he just wants to hang out elsewhere). It's actually really cute. He's also fairly easy to scoop up in your hand and hold but afterwards he looks extremely indignant and immediately gives himself a full preen.
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Mar 1, 2020 22:19
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Plant MONSTER. posted:Mayo bit me once but she was feeling cornered, I think. Same. Alex is very cognizant of bite strength - if you bug him, he'll first tell you no by touching your finger or whatever with his beak and doing a lick. If you keep going, the bites get harder. He's never had to try to draw blood, so I'm not sure if he can, precisely, but neither would it surprise me.
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Mar 1, 2020 22:21
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who is the bird hating monster that keeps lowering this threads perfect 5-star gold rating??
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Mar 1, 2020 22:37
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Plant MONSTER. posted:who is the bird hating monster that keeps lowering this threads perfect 5-star gold rating?? I don't think it's me, but on my cell phone I've accidentally mashed an unintentional rating in TFR more than once. On mobile, the rating button is really close "forums" button when you want to go back to the main directory. My phone screen is shattered and doesn't always play nice with what I'm asking it to do.
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Mar 1, 2020 22:57
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Plant MONSTER. posted:who is the bird hating monster that keeps lowering this threads perfect 5-star gold rating?? Rude! But I noticed I hadn't ever rated this thread so I fixed that.
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Mar 1, 2020 22:57
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RoboRodent posted:Rude! But I noticed I hadn't ever rated this thread so I fixed that. I have voted on this one in the past........... *logs into admin account*
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Mar 1, 2020 23:41
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzzTDVfYnWM SCRAAAAAAWWWW
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Mar 1, 2020 23:44
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:And while Charlemagne has not caught springtime fever (yet), I think he needs a wing trim because he will not loving leave my door frame alone and I have run out of things to try to mitigate this behavior. Months of trying to get him to stop nicely has left me with a destroyed door frame and broken dreams UPDATE: caught Charlie chewing on my doorframe again as soon as I stepped out of the room. I was prepared for a struggle in cutting his primaries but I just scooped him up, swaddled his front end in a washcloth and set him in my lap, and he let me extend first one wing and then the other and trim them down. I didn't want to traumatize him since I don't know when the last time he was clipped was, if ever, so the washcloth was pretty loose and there were a couple opportunities where during my awkward maneuvers he could have chomped me or punched a hole in my pant leg pretty easily but he didn't so much as try. He's just sitting on my shoulder grooming now like nothing happened. It's just a light clip, he can still get a little air with effort, but he was so good about it I feel like a monster 😭 I'm sorry Charlie you are a Very Good Bird 😭 now don't eat my loving door frame
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Mar 2, 2020 03:39
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I feel like you should keep your phone on-hand to record the moment Charley inevitably tries to get air and faceplants in an undignified manner.
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Mar 2, 2020 04:08
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If I had one tenth of Serra’s doofusry on camera, I’d be making tens of YouTube dollars. Tens, I say. Edit : I say that, then realize Serra's hiss fit video somehow has 1.5k views.  Guess people like birbs.
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Mar 2, 2020 04:24
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I just wish I could get Ozzy's fake sneezes on camera. He is so camera shy.
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Mar 2, 2020 05:33
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:UPDATE: caught Charlie chewing on my doorframe again as soon as I stepped out of the room. I was prepared for a struggle in cutting his primaries but I just scooped him up, swaddled his front end in a washcloth and set him in my lap, and he let me extend first one wing and then the other and trim them down. I didn't want to traumatize him since I don't know when the last time he was clipped was, if ever, so the washcloth was pretty loose and there were a couple opportunities where during my awkward maneuvers he could have chomped me or punched a hole in my pant leg pretty easily but he didn't so much as try. He's just sitting on my shoulder grooming now like nothing happened. It's just a light clip, he can still get a little air with effort, but he was so good about it I feel like a monster 😭 I'm sorry Charlie you are a Very Good Bird 😭 Shoulda chosen the All Steel Everything furnishing option
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Mar 2, 2020 08:41
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Potato Salad posted:Shoulda chosen the All Steel Everything furnishing option I listened to a talk with a local breeder who works with the Toronto Zoo to help care for parrots and other exotic birds. He built a giant multi-room aviary on his property and uses big metal garbage cans as nesting spots inside of each room; the birds eventually eat the bottoms out and he needs to replace them.
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Mar 2, 2020 14:31
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Shoulda chosen the All Titanium Carbide Everything option!!
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Mar 2, 2020 15:49
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Why can birds chew through steel. Why is that a thing they can do.
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Mar 2, 2020 16:23
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https://i.imgur.com/zVPxHvf.mp4
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Mar 2, 2020 16:50
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RoboRodent posted:Why can birds chew through steel. Why is that a thing they can do. they're basically can openers
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Mar 2, 2020 17:00
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Isn't there a macaw who got a 3d printed beak out of something ridiculous like tungsten carbide or titanium why would you do this, it's like giving nuclear weapons to barely evolved hairless apes
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Mar 2, 2020 18:37
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Birds are perfect
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Mar 3, 2020 04:46
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mikerock posted:Birds are perfect I really wouldn't mind getting reincarnated around the karma wheel into a parrot for a life or two. It would be a nice break.
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Mar 3, 2020 08:45
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redgubbinz posted:Isn't there a macaw who got a 3d printed beak out of something ridiculous like tungsten carbide or titanium  but yes, there's a macaw with a titanium beak. They said plastic normally used for other bird beaks/bills wouldn't stand up to the forces and what a macaw uses their beak for 
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Mar 3, 2020 14:39
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Not a parrot, but a cute bird gif all the same. https://i.imgur.com/MB2re8w.gifv
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the untitled goose honk honk
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