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Post by siobhan on Oct 21, 2019 13:34:45 GMT -5
I know we all have this problem: the bird fashion police, who decree that you can or cannot wear certain items or colors in their royal presence. For Clyde, it's a watch, red, hats and things with zippers. He doesn't object to the zippers, but he WILL destroy them. I mistakenly thought Rocky 'Too didn't care what I had on until the last week or so. I've been taking him into the birds' room to hang out with Clyde and Freddie and me quite a lot lately, and now Clyde seems to have recruited him into the Fashion Police Force. I got some new slippers. Rocky went absolutely ballistic. They're like bunny slippers, except the animal is an alpaca. I thought that's what bothered him. So I got some different ones that aren't animal-shaped. He went ballistic. Sigh. I got some flip flop style slippers. He went ballistic. Then I wore my cowboy boots to church yesterday and still had them on when I went to get him to hang out with the little birds and ... you guessed it. He went ballistic. Apparently I am only allowed to wear sneakers or no shoes at all around him. I can wear whatever pants and shirt and colors I want, but he is VERY choosy about footwear, and that is one thing Clyde doesn't care at all about, as long as my shoes aren't red. Red isn't allowed no matter what. Non-bird people just don't understand this sort of thing. "Your BIRD won't LET you wear (fill in the blank)  " That is correct. My bird tells me what to wear. And what not to wear. And I obey. |
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Post by cnyguy on Oct 21, 2019 20:23:33 GMT -5
That's a new one. Neither parrot here cares much about what I wear on my feet (as long as it's nothing orange), although they do notice any new shoes I wear and stare at them for a while, until they're used to seeing them. Ralph liked the moccasins I wore around the apartment (until they recently wore out) and enjoyed pulling the laces out of the eyelets.
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Post by siobhan on Oct 22, 2019 9:54:22 GMT -5
If it were just staring, I'd just wear them and let him get used to them. But he clambers down off his cage and runs at my feet to attack and if you try to stop an attacking cockatoo, somebody's gonna bleed and it ain't the cockatoo. LOL I have a pair of sneakers that he hated for a while and I wore those when he was locked in his cage until he got used to them so he wouldn't attack. Now I can wear those. He still doesn't like them but he won't attack anymore. Guess I'll have to do that with the slippers.
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Post by biteybird on Nov 5, 2019 7:19:24 GMT -5
...and enjoyed pulling the laces out of the eyelets. Ah, the laces and the eyelets! Bonnie loves chewing the hard shell-like covering off the ends of the laces.  Unfortunately for her, now that we live in Darwin we mostly wear sandals or thongs (hence no laces for her to destroy). It's a travesty!  |
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Post by biteybird on Nov 5, 2019 7:23:44 GMT -5
But he clambers down off his cage and runs at my feet to attack... Yeah, well this is interesting, because Bonnie attacks my Crocs (brand of rubber sandal we have here). Sometimes my feet are in them and sometimes not. At other times she will completely ignore them, or else run up to my feet and screech "Hello!" (for some reason she only says hello to our feet). It doesn't make sense at all...but I guess that's life with a Quaker.  |
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