Post by siobhan on Jul 24, 2014 13:35:50 GMT -5
Jade likes to pull other birds' tails. I don't have a tail, so she pulls my hair. She finds this highly amusing. The rest of us ... not so much. LOL This morning, the tiels did their usual morning laps around the room and Johnny, who is easily flustered, was confused by my standing in the middle of the room when he began his laps and ended up landing on the perch on top of Jade's cage. She was on the perch on the front of her cage, reached up and grabbed his tail and yanked. He squawked and tried to fly away, but she had a good grip and he was flapping in mid-air, with her hanging on to his tail. I gave HER tail a very, very gentle tweak to distract her and said, "Let go" and she did, and he went back to his own cage to nurse his hurt feelings. The end of his tail is kind of raggedy and twisted, but he's okay. Jade gave me a wounded look as if to say, "But, MOM, there was no BLOOD. What's the problem?" 
The problem is, the other birds have picked up on this as a fun way to annoy each other and everybody from The Pigeon Queen Maggie down to little Benjy pulls tails if they think somebody else needs taken down a peg. If that somebody happens to be sitting on my hand or shoulder at the time, *I* get chomped.
The problem is, the other birds have picked up on this as a fun way to annoy each other and everybody from The Pigeon Queen Maggie down to little Benjy pulls tails if they think somebody else needs taken down a peg. If that somebody happens to be sitting on my hand or shoulder at the time, *I* get chomped. 
