{"id":10466,"date":"2010-09-09T20:56:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T20:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=10466"},"modified":"2010-10-10T07:05:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T11:05:38","slug":"my-brothers-cockatiel-and-quaker-parrot-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/my-brothers-cockatiel-and-quaker-parrot-update\/","title":{"rendered":"My brother’s cockatiel and quaker parrot update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My brother has a cockatiel named Nicole that he’s had for years.\u00a0 A month ago he retired from his job at Honeywell Aerospace and bought a quaker parrot.\u00a0 Here’s an email update on Nick and Nicole.\u00a0 Jerry writes: My new bird Nick is totally spoiled now.\u00a0 I open his cage every morning then sit down in my recliner.\u00a0 He gets out and stretches a bit, then it’s down in the floor, waddling toward me.\u00a0 He tries to climb my leg to get to me, but his toe nails aren’t sharp enough to grip the fabric of my pants.\u00a0 So he sits and watches me until I put my hand down so he can get it.\u00a0 Then it’s wrestle my fingers time.\u00a0 He likes for me to tease him so he can fake biting me.\u00a0 He doesn’t clamp down but likes to nibble.\u00a0 He loves to be petted like a dog, and scratched behind his ears.<\/p>\n

Of course Nicole flies over to my shoulder.\u00a0 She has to stake her claim.\u00a0 It took awhile but Nick has learned that if he tries to get too close to Nicole, I put him back on his cage.\u00a0 So he moves just close enough to cause her to hiss at him, then he goes back to nibbling at my buttons and belt loops.<\/p>\n

I have two little ladders from the floor up to Nick’s cage.\u00a0 He will flutter down off his perch, then climb back up the ladder.\u00a0 He doesn’t like that Nicole flies and he can’t.\u00a0 But Miss Nicole gets her overdue wing clipping tomorrow.\u00a0 She’s getting too brave and is going to hurt herself bouncing off walls and things.\u00a0 Last time her feathers were allowed to grow enough for flight, she flew out the door and down past the neighbor’s house.\u00a0 Then she sits there in an unknown place and chirps in a real panic for me.\u00a0 I let her ride my shoulder back to the house and she went straight for her cage.<\/p>\n

Anyway, both birds are like kids.\u00a0 Nick still purrs at me like a kitten.<\/p>\n

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