Do you think the parents knew the weekend meant "no food from the humans"?
Yes... I dreaded facing them at work on Monday morning. It started out innocently enough. They really meant well. Then it got to be a common joke to "give it to Kila, she kills everything!" Creatures I did not kill (immediately): turtles, kittens, budgies, dozens of lost dogs, a rabbit and a mongoose. Partly to prove I did NOT kill everything. :)
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 20:38, 1 reply)

I hope they didn't
...it'd make me feel worse thinking I had distressed them too, on top of the obvious distress they would have been in if he had fallen, that is.

Do you live in a zoo?!
(Bob Frapples is de-lurking on, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 21:01, closed)

I take in strays
At least that's what my best mate told the future Mr. Kila.

I meant that I was just wondering if the bird parents recognized the humans' go-away-for-the-weekend noises and kicked out the weaklings so as not to waste energy on them, knowing no easy food was forthcoming from the humans. Well, crumbs from biscuits and such... that we'd leave for the birds when we would eat lunch outside (we were messy eaters).

Rumor has it I was raised in a zoo. Not true, not true. Zoos have standards for raising the young.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Wed 1 Sep 2010, 22:21, closed)