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Post by samwiseg on Aug 4, 2020 10:18:40 GMT
I reckon you are making all this up to get attention Hezz Sorry, all my comments to you lately seem to be full of mischief! Dont worry, I'll soon get bored start on someone else soon
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Post by Hezz on Aug 5, 2020 0:36:43 GMT
I reckon you are making all this up to get attention Hezz Sorry, all my comments to you lately seem to be full of mischief! Dont worry, I'll soon get bored start on someone else soon I could sic Loki onto you, Sam. He has other members of the family on high alert.
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Post by skysmum on Aug 9, 2020 22:04:22 GMT
You make that darling little boy sound like a little Gremlin Hezz But he is ... Everything and anything is something to be chewed, from your shoe laces to the window frames and everything in between. Luckily he seems to like me so I don't have too many large pieces missing. His saving grace is that there is no evil intent, except towards other people. I believe you The hairs on the back of my neck still stand on end when i think of my encounter some years ago with a small green parrot in a pet shop, he latched on to my finger, Holy Moly the pain was incredible, the owner, who encouraged me to hold him, the parrot that is, had to prize his beak off, he evidently didn't like me
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Post by samwiseg on Aug 10, 2020 10:12:12 GMT
Oh oweee! Whatever did he not like about you, the bird whisperer?!
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Post by Hezz on Aug 10, 2020 20:00:51 GMT
I know what you mean, skysmum. I was got by a baby lorikeet a number of years ago now, between my thumbnail and the knuckle. I couldn't get him off either and for about three, four years after I could still feel this odd tingling in that spot - he'd obviously caused some small degree of nerve damage. Little fella was on the ground before he should have been and I knew a cat lived at the house next door. My rescue efforts were not appreciated at all!!! Sounds terrible but I basically had to shake him off! The more I tried to prise his beak open the harder he bit down.
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Post by jellybean on Aug 10, 2020 20:09:25 GMT
The pain from a budgie is bad enough if he catches you a cracker never mind one of the larger parrots.....OUCH 😭😭
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Post by skysmum on Aug 10, 2020 22:03:38 GMT
I know what you mean, skysmum. I was got by a baby lorikeet a number of years ago now, between my thumbnail and the knuckle. I couldn't get him off either and for about three, four after I could still feel this odd tingling in that spot - he'd obviously caused some small degree of nerve damage. Little fella was on the ground before he should have been and I knew a cat lived at the house next door. My rescue efforts were not appreciated at all!!! Sounds terrible but I basically had to shake him off! The more I tried to prise his beak open the harder he bit down. That's the one Hezz , my finger throbbed and tingled for a few days too and i have to say i tried the shake, it's a natural reaction when a vice like grip just gets tighter I couldn't believe the power in something so small, the guy literally had to prize his beak open, never again, as jellybean said, a bud, especially a Henny bud is bad enough but that was something else, respect to anything bigger than a bud, i value my fingers too much
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Post by Hezz on Aug 10, 2020 22:30:14 GMT
And I missed a word out there - that was three, fours years after the event. I still have a bit of a habit of rubbing my index finger over the top of my thumb in that area, on a random basis. He was not to be forgotten in a hurry.
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Post by willowsmum on Aug 10, 2020 22:33:46 GMT
Wow, I had assumed 'weeks' Hate to think of the damage something like an African Grey could do
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Aug 11, 2020 2:06:25 GMT
My sister had the meanest budgie in the world and the sweetest. The sweetest would come running whenever someone (anyone) would put their finger up. He'd grab the finger with his foot and start rubbing his head on the finger tip while softly chirping. If you put your finger up to the meanest budgie he'd softly nibble around the cuticle until he found a sore spot or other vulnerable spot and then chomp down hard - oweee!
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Post by blue48 on Aug 11, 2020 6:51:32 GMT
When I see my boy tearing the bark from his wooden toys, it makes me realise the strength in his beak. He also has this habit of sitting on my shoulder chattering away, and when I turn my head to talk to him he'll occasionally have an evil moment and go for my lip or nose. It's so fast it has happened before I realise. Mostly though, it's just a gentle nibble. I can't imagine a serious bite from a large bird.
Apropos of nothing, I was bitten by a seal once in a seal sanctuary. Big ouch!
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Aug 11, 2020 16:19:08 GMT
I thought I'd just post a "be aware" comment here. Sometimes people will join and post something very dire about their bird which is not true. They are trying to get as many people agitated as possible and they enjoy the frenzy they create. After they do that, they disappear and probably move to another forum. Whenever I read a "help" posting especially from someone new, I ask myself if it is something that could possibly be true. Most of the postings are typical things that can happen and I appreciate reading what the experts suggest. But there have been about 3 postings that I've read since joining that I reacted with "Really, if that truly happened the bird would be dead by now". Yes, it does upset me to see people doing these things. Just my once in a blue moon rant.
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Post by birdguhl on Aug 11, 2020 16:47:06 GMT
Scary stories!!!!
Stanley was a bud I rehomed and he was a biter. He would go for my fingers instead of the millet I was holding. If he got a 'wrinkle' in my skin it was really sore. He seemed to enjoy it!
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Post by tweetiepiesmom on Aug 11, 2020 17:08:32 GMT
Aren't they funny little guys birdguhl! I think we all just adjust and have fun with whatever personality shows up.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2020 17:18:28 GMT
It's funny how they know. Munchy was preening my thumb rather aggressively, but not painfully, once, then his head shot towards the skin between my thumb and forefinger, and it was the gentlest nibble ever!
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