I turned my cowardly budgie Nigel......into a killing machine. How? Regularly I would swish a tea towel or piece of kitchen roll really low over the top of his cage giving off the impression that it was a large bird of prey trying to get themselves a piece of prime budgerigar. I'd often swoop my hand down over him aswell as if I was going to give it a HUGE clip round his budgie ears.
Through lack of sleep fearing the next attack, Nigel became a rather touchy budgie. He used the cuttlefish to make his beak razor sharp, and trying to put seed in his feeders regularly resulted in bleeding hands.
So the monster I created now started to piss me off. My abuse increased tenfold. One day he was looking a bit out of breathe in his cage. I thought it was because the kitchen was rather warm due to things cooking in the oven, or that he'd been jumping round his cage. Sadly not, it would seem Nigels heart was playing up. One final swoop over his feathery bonce and he just fell off his perch, and landed spread eagled across the bottom of the cage, never to be annoyed by me again.
I liked him really
:'¬(
(Through lack of sleep fearing the next attack, Nigel became a rather touchy budgie. He used the cuttlefish to make his beak razor sharp, and trying to put seed in his feeders regularly resulted in bleeding hands.
So the monster I created now started to piss me off. My abuse increased tenfold. One day he was looking a bit out of breathe in his cage. I thought it was because the kitchen was rather warm due to things cooking in the oven, or that he'd been jumping round his cage. Sadly not, it would seem Nigels heart was playing up. One final swoop over his feathery bonce and he just fell off his perch, and landed spread eagled across the bottom of the cage, never to be annoyed by me again.
I liked him really
:'¬(
Mozer,
Wed 15 Oct 2003, 23:37,
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