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Post by LaFille on May 27, 2008 4:16:55 GMT
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Post by cleglaw on May 27, 2008 14:26:45 GMT
Nice article. Sad in a way that the parrot was never actually allowed to go to a tree.
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Post by Alrik on May 27, 2008 22:04:00 GMT
This was the cover story of the magazine one or two months ago.
With a little bit of luck you might still be able to order it.
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Post by LaFille on May 28, 2008 3:58:13 GMT
Yeah, I discovered the article in the French printed version of the mag a month or two ago... And yes, it is kept. ;D I just forgot to dig for an online English version of it to post until yesterday (bad, bad girl).  In a way I can understand why the woman wouldn't have wanted to take the parrot to that tree outside; I would be afraid to lose the bird or that he would get harmed there... I don't know if there's a way to keep birds safely near outside, like a kind of leash? But I agree that it's sad if he never went to a tree but would have wanted to. There are small trees that grow well indoors and it's not rare in business/education buildings, so it would have been possible to have one where he could have gone; I don't know if it would have changed his interest for the one he could see outside though... What struck me as sad too with the parrot is that he seems to have died relatively young (even if 31); I heard that parrots could live almost as long as their owners sometimes... |
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Post by Galadriel on Jun 10, 2008 7:58:09 GMT
Parrots can easely get to the age of 90, certainly the Amazon parrot breeds. But if a bird like that gets a cold, he'll die soon of it. Injections are also not well for birds in general. One of my collegues has a blue parrot who has been ill for some time, something wrong with his heart, but he survived after a small operation and is now hitting his 60th anniversairy.
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Post by LaFille on Jun 11, 2008 2:12:44 GMT
...So getting a parrot is a big investment in all senses of the term; especially that they seem to be able to be real pests at time, yelling, destructing thing, being possessive/dominator...  |
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Post by Galadriel on Jun 11, 2008 8:11:55 GMT
Hmm, that can be the case indeed sometimes, we used to have a smaller breed called the Cockatiel Parakeet. Man, that was a nasty animal! Not at all nice, always angry when we approached his cage and attacking us when feeding him. One day I went to the store and before I left I passed by his cage to see if he was allright, he started to cry piercefully to chase me away. When I came back I found him dead on the floor of his cage. I always think he died of pure anger 
But in general parrots are known to be nice to their owners, but real guards of the house to strangers. The fun thing is that if they know when to say hello when the phone rings, or to say "good morning" when you come down. They know exactly what to say at what moment if they are used to hear it every day. Even the voices are correctly imitated.
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Post by LaFille on Jun 12, 2008 3:11:54 GMT
I know a few persons who used to have cokatiels and they always seemed to be pretty much the same temper and care than budgerigars. But in bigger formats. ;D The parrot stories I heard about though were of another level... One was very possessive of his owner an making messes to his wife or people wanting to come close to him; they had to handle him with the tip of a broom. That was the worse case, but otherwise it was about them yelling, breaking things with their beaks or acting like capricious teens... Seeing how some at the pet stores behave and given that they're complex, long-living beings, I don't have a hard time to believe that they can be difficult pets if they're not living in good conditions or not educated right. I had a few budgies, for myself, but they all had something weird or tragic... Two of them lived relatively long lives (the other two succumbed to their attraction for my dog); the first one became obese (it's the only case I ever knew of an obese budgie... and it was not about overfeeding) and he had a dangerous attraction for lamps. The other thought she was a degu and had a phobia of sunflower seeds.  They both seemed happy playing around, singing and living long lives, but I never was able to teach them more than a particular way to whistle. They did have their destructive moments, too... |
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Post by Galadriel on Jun 16, 2008 13:12:54 GMT
A friend of mine used to have a few budgies as well, nice little birds, though very naughty actually. Both had a way of escaping the cage, and when they did, the most fun they had was flying around the house trying to throw off every item that was not too heavy. We used to have a dozen dried roses on a wheel (the kind with lights in), postcards everywhere (since it was around christmas) and they loved to throw it over every single time ;D
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Post by LaFille on Jun 17, 2008 3:26:47 GMT
That's the kind of humor I see a parrot having... ;D But I don't have difficulty to see a budgie doing so either and showing to his buddies his fav game. ;D Most of the budgies I knew/had were relatively soft; the worse that mines ever did was to bite the degus' tails or torment my dog a little. One happened to fall in a bol of cereals and a cup of coffee, but it wasn<t on purpose.  Given the strength and beak/claws size difference, I think I prefer a naughty budgie to a naughty parrot though. ;D |
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They both seemed happy playing around, singing and living long lives, but I never was able to teach them more than a particular way to whistle. They did have their destructive moments, too...