|
|
Post by cnyguy on Feb 25, 2016 21:16:34 GMT -5
Yesterday morning when I was taking Ralph's food dish out of his cage to give him his breakfast, he launched himself at the dish from a good six inches away. He landed on it and both he and the food dish dropped to the cage floor. Fortunately, neither Ralph nor the dish suffered any damage. Since he hates having me handle his food dish, I usually have to distract him somehow so I can get the dish out (and back in-- though if he's really hungry, he'll pull it in himself and start stuffing his beak; if he's not so hungry, he will either chomp the nearest finger or try to escape through the little access door). But since he was already busy untying strings, it didn't seem necessary to provide a distraction. Boy, was I wrong.  |
|
|
|
Post by Jan and Shah on Feb 25, 2016 21:55:22 GMT -5
Gary, I don't believe a word of it. Ralph would never behave like that. You must have done something to provoke him  |
|
|
|
Post by Caseysmom on Feb 25, 2016 22:33:56 GMT -5
Oops! You would think if it meant getting new food he would gladly let you get it, there must have been something left he really wanted.
|
|
|
|
Post by biteybird on Feb 26, 2016 3:28:00 GMT -5
I, too, am VERY shocked to hear this talltale...it's pathetic that you must make up these dreadful stories about the gentleman quaker.  |
|
|
|
Post by beccilouise on Feb 26, 2016 3:52:36 GMT -5
HA! This is amazing. I believe even gentlemen have bad days! Perhaps he'd misplaced his bow tie and thought you were sneaking it out in the food dish  |
|
|
|
Post by easttex on Feb 26, 2016 7:17:29 GMT -5
It was said that even Cary Grant couldn't measure up to "Cary Grant". Even my my own little gentleman can get quite perturbed when I do anything with his food dish, including adding to it. |
|
|
|
Post by julianna on Feb 26, 2016 15:23:07 GMT -5
You should know better by now... DO NOT mess with their food... ha ha ha.
When you say "launch".. I have seen this many times with Oscar also and it quite funny. He definitely does a "launch" when he wants to get into his condo. I am surprised he has not hurt himself yet. Thank goodness the condo is full of face cloths.
|
|
|
|
Post by cnyguy on Feb 26, 2016 23:19:31 GMT -5
Gary, I don't believe a word of it. Ralph would never behave like that. You must have done something to provoke him I sure did-- I touched his food dish. In Ralph's rule book, that's a serious violation and must be punished. I keep reminding Ralph that if I don't remove and replace his food dish, he won't get anything to eat, but he can't quite accept that as being true. I also often remind him of the old adage "don't bite the hand that feeds you," but that one hasn't registered with him either. That's really the only time he ever bites me, except playfully. Ralph actually took a giant leap and landed on the food dish, which I'd already removed from its holder (it's a Quik-lock dish), but hadn't quite had time to take out through the access door. He and the dish landed on the bottom grate, but somehow, Ralph managed a gentle landing. He then grumbled at me, I think because all the food had spilled out of the dish. I had to remind him that I was just getting his breakfast ready and he'd soon be getting fresh food anyway. For the rest of the day, he was calm and cooperative, as a Gentleman Quaker ought to be.  |
|
|
|
Post by aaron on Feb 29, 2016 14:00:11 GMT -5
Ralph! You're hurting your rep, bro. Gotta step it up. Cupcake will be holding a seminar-- Cupcake's Manners for the Feathered in a Human World. Entry fee is a bit of toast or a couple seeds and/or cooked peas. I'm sure she'll bite me or poop in my hair or something tonight since I've talked up her manners. |
|
|
|
Post by easttex on Feb 29, 2016 15:38:50 GMT -5
I'd like to say that Peppy will be attending Cupcake's seminar, as a presenter, of course, but he does not acknowledge that it is he living in a human world. No, it is I who live in, by the grace of birds, an avian world. He considers me just a large, plucked chicken, anyway. |
|
|
|
Post by aaron on Feb 29, 2016 15:54:40 GMT -5
Haha... I'm sure Cupcake probably thinks I'm a mammoth beak-less parrot as well. I know she thinks it's weird when we, as large avians, sniff things. "Dad, why is your beak so soft and makes so many strange noises?"
|
|
|
|
Post by beccilouise on Feb 29, 2016 17:30:06 GMT -5
HAAAA! Byron will definitely be attending Cupcake's seminars as a student. I had to chase him around the sofa today to get the rest of my shortbread biscuit back after he run up my belly and STOLE it! Luckily, I think I got most of it back. He may well need extra politeness tuition!
|
|
|
|
Post by cnyguy on Feb 29, 2016 20:58:17 GMT -5
Ralph! You're hurting your rep, bro. Gotta step it up. Sometimes I think that Ralph needs to remind himself-- and the rest of the world-- that he is, after all, a Quaker parrot, and should behave like one, at least once in a while. |
|
|
|
Post by biteybird on Mar 1, 2016 1:46:59 GMT -5
Ralph! You're hurting your rep, bro. Gotta step it up. Sometimes I think that Ralph needs to remind himself-- and the rest of the world-- that he is, after all, a Quaker parrot, and should behave like one, at least once in a while. I suppose one must touch base with the masses ("the free-range rude" according to Hannibal Lecter!) now and then. |
|
|
|
Post by aaron on Mar 1, 2016 11:07:34 GMT -5
Ralph! You're hurting your rep, bro. Gotta step it up. Sometimes I think that Ralph needs to remind himself-- and the rest of the world-- that he is, after all, a Quaker parrot, and should behave like one, at least once in a while. Very true. I can get behind that! Birds will be birds! |
|
