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raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

3D GAY WORLD posted:

1. Because I enjoy it and think pigeons are awesome and adorable despite their undeserved reputation

2. Because the two are not mutually exclusive

3. Because I would see string-foot pigeons limping outside my work every day (pigeons who've gotten string, hair or wire wrapped around their toes/feet in a way that cuts off circulation, causes infection and eventually causes their toes to fall off) and I couldn't stand to see a living creature that I admired suffer from something so easy to treat (I've caught, treated and either rereleased or taken to a rehabilitater 36 pigeons in the last year or so)

4. Because compared to other animal pigeons receive virtually no help, no compassion and no resources.

Obviously if you hate pigeons you won't understand why I help them, but your argument is pretty ridiculous. You're saying that because there are humans suffering (many because of causes that I'm not qualified or am unable to help them with), no one should spend their time helping or doing anything else? I do help people whenever I can, either with food from my restaurant, a ride or with small amounts of money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPj3G7U-K04&t=13s

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raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

3D GAY WORLD posted:

God I wish I had the resources/patience to take care of a parrot of some kind, they're hilarious; I need to become friends with someone who has a pet cockatoo.

Why cockatoos are awesome but difficult pets: https://youtu.be/odzXm2KT7ew

This video, historically and factually speaking, is 95% of the reason I decided I would never have a cockatoo pet.

raton fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Oct 20, 2015

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
I appreciate the pigeon love itt but some day when I have a tiled room with a drain in the middle of the floor and some perches on the wall and some Dominican lady in my employ to take care of the day to day BS I'm going to have a small flock of human attenuated kakerteels in thar

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Pigeons in large numbers can and do transmit diseases to people. Various avian flus are the obvious current concern, but in the old days many cities had to contend with bird mite infestations that were always caused either by pigeons or someone having a loving chicken farm on top of NYC apartment building.

I'm not saying they're as dirty as a rat, obviously a rat is dirty as it has to drag its furry body all over the ground and go into dirty holes all the time whereas a pigeon merely slogs through the greasy air, but they can be an actual health issue.

In any case I support all birds and suggest that people be nice to them because birds are good. However please do not go to the park and empty a gladbag of old bread onto the corner every day because you have religiious beliefs vaguely related to reincarnation that state you're helping a bad grandpa out in this life and getting yourself some karma kredits for your next one.

I ate pigeon one time in an Egyptian restaruant it was pretty oily but it tasted okay.

Piegons are an okay bird and an overall pretty great animal.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Cowman posted:

pigeons are cool and I like to see them strut around like they own the place then get spooked or hosed up and fly off

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Concurrent with ownership of The Very Smart Cockatiel (for a Cockatiel Anyway) we also owned The Very Dumb Cockatiel. One of TVDC's most infamous stunts was the time she saw her own shadow act in a terribly offensive and frightening manner and immediately scurried into an adjacent wall, stunning herself for a good twenty minutes.

The bird in the above image I would rate at at least and A- but probably A class cockatiel as he is considering the ontological f actualities of shadows.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
I see a bird like that I'm not afraid to let him know "Yo you hosed up bro" even tho its a little unkind

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Over There posted:

I really want to get a bird but all my friends say all they do is poo poo and scream. How exactly do you train a bird?

Birds don't really understand negative reinforcement, they just think you hate them for no reason if you try it. You catch them doing something vaguely right and reward them for it and mold their behavior that way. You need a clicker so you can ID the exact thing that is good. It's also helpful if their normal food is pellets so that you can reward then with a seed or some certain fruit that they love (varies by bird) as they like food more than head scratches.

A really smart bird can be taught the word "no" like a dog can but they seem to refuse to connect that to behavior modification. Also some birds are hard wired to be a little noisy at dusk and dawn so keeping them in the bedroom is a bad idea and if they're passionate about discolored sunlight you need to put a blanket over their cage at night to help simmer that down.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Cockateils love gettin in that falling water



The aforementioned Very Dumb Cockatiel was not good at bathing. Instead of flopping around in the water and tossing it up onto her back like normal teils do when given a dish of warm water she would just stand in it and and rock her breast back and forth in it like a chef's knife, cleanly wetting the two front columns of chest feathers and nothing else, so that afterward she had a pin stripe neat racing stripe.

raton fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Oct 21, 2015

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Tendai posted:

Judah will start doing that bathing flailing when it's raining.

He is not outside in the rain.

Ten years on, and it seems to have yet to dawn on him that he never actually gets wet during these baths.

Our birds have always been irregular about this but sometimes the first indication of rain was one of them splaying their body feathers and pointing the wrong end up while worming around for no reason, still being inside of the house. If it wasn't too cold we would usually plop them out on the deck and set the hairdryer up on top of the cage so that they could get into drying positions afterward.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

A Spider Covets posted:

i dont know if this bird has been posted

but i like it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CoxnUe49ZA

Wow this bird really put me in my place.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Tendai posted:

I'm guessing those are... I don't know, what the gently caress do you call stuffed animals that are really artistic and meant for show.

Art.

Those are art.

:downs:

Artisinal folk dolls

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Double Bill posted:

Now this is a good birb synthesizer. Suddenly Max's gibberish doesn't sound so cool anymore.

In Thailand there was a dude that ran a little food stall and his myna birb would chill in its cage near the stall all day bustin out the Buddhist religious sayings in Thai.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Ty check out my owls costume

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

computer parts posted:

One time my cat attacked a magpie but it got away, so for the rest of the summer we'd have magpies in all the trees surrounding our house and they'd harass the cat whenever he went outside.

Magpies fukken rule

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
An almost tonal cockatiel :staredog:

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Gotta revise my "X at once" wishlist to include "pet 5 small birds at once with one hand" now

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG9itZ2gT7Y

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Agree

That bird is a fukken devil

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

I'm a little worried that a crow is going to see that and figure out a way to maim that cat horribly by getting it to stick its arm out there

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

The Goatfather posted:

if anything deserves to maim a cat its a bird, given that cats are currently waging a genocide against all birds in the world

Agree

I've just been on the internet too much and forgot how to word anything in a cat neutral way.

Keep your birdmurderpigs inside ya jerks.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4xmRnVwUsw

Best trick around 2:15.

raton fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Dec 8, 2015

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Take Shaq out and it'd be better.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

a messed up horse posted:

this is never the case

Reddit post itt

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Moon Potato posted:

Ooh, I love Green Herons. They are excellent tubes/extendbirbs. They are incredibly shy, though - we have them around, but I usually only catch glimpses of them before they hide in the willows.

Black-crowned Night Herons are neat, too. Their courtship is basically showing off how handsome of a poofed tube you can be, then rubbing beaks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz8TVWHww1k

Birds rule and are fukken dumb as hell

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
I used to feeb my birbs
    *A spaghetti
    *Fork of whiterice
    *Popcorns stuck onto their talons to make popcorn feet
    *One french fry

They liked these things a lot and would eat them until their crop was bulging and they were in a starch induced bird food coma.

They also eat the wheatgrass you buy from the expensive supermarket that's still growing if you put it in their cage in the winter and like it a lot and get a serious case of green beak.

They will not eat orange juice at all. They also do not eat the outside of the french fry but instead hollow out the middle to make a fry canoe.

raton fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Dec 15, 2015

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Oh? What's that? The servings size?

Well about equal to the size of their head when fluffy is okay.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

gg parrit

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Open your mouth and the parrot chews on teeth because he likes to gently caress with stuff and eventually he pulls out a tooth it's an age old story that an Indian told me at a bullshit casino then he asked me for a dollar.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

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raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Switching from back to stomach.flv

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