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[skreidle]

Best bird post ever, from profworm:
Birds come standard with a reptillian sense of emotional response. They don't understand the same concepts of joy and sadness we mammals take for granted, but they're a hell of a lot more motivated than lizards. Like iguanas with a meth addiction.

One of my first memories of Myst, and certainly the most potent, is of her charging halfway across a pet store to start a 2-on-1 fight with a Cockatoo and an African Grey. Nevermind that she's a conure with about as much body mass as a pair of twinkies, she'll fling herself headfirst at any other living thing that comes near me.

I thought I was buying a bird, and I got a latino gangsta girlfriend instead. It's hard to tell, seeing as she's bilingual and I'm not, but I swear one time I think I even heard her say, "Don't think I won't cut you!"

:D

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From gingerdc9: Gary Coleman also running for Cali governor, says he'll vote for the Terminator.

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Speaking of birds...

[my2perfectday.livejournal.com]

... it's probably past time to get my parakeet's wings and toenails trimmed. I'm not really sure that I want to get his wings clipped again though. He can fly about halfway across the room, but not well and nothing sustained (and his landiings SUCK.) Furthermore, the only times he really does that is if I set him down somewhere and he's trying to get back to me.

I've never not clipped a parakeet's wings before. What are the advantages / disadvantages?

Re: Speaking of birds...

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Well, they prefer being unclipped, as flying is natural. However, a fully-flighted bird runs risks from:
uncovered windows
mirrors
ceiling fans
open containers of water (glasses, pitchers, toilets)
hot stoves
the great outdoors, if escape-inclined

However, a clipped bird can't easily escape from ground-based predators like dogs/cats/small children. Depends on the environment, mostly.

Birds for Dummies recommends that all domestic birds be clipped, enough that they can glide to the floor and not much else.