Bluey and Joey
When I lived in Brierfield (near Burnley), we lived in the posh end, and there was a bloke on the street I lived on who bred budgies. We got a budgie from him, and called it 'Joey'. Joey was ace, but he had a weird predilection for climbing around his cage. After a while, his beak snapped off from using it for purchase on the bars, so we took him to the breeder, who put it back in with it's Mother while his beak grew back, but he got far too attached, so we were offered another. Lo, we got 'Bluey'.

Bluey was fucking mental.

He would hang upside down on his perch, then flap around his cage. Once, my Mum couldn't be arsed to pull the cage apart to clean it, so she vacuumed the floor of the cage. Of course, Bluey swooped down and his wing went straight up the vacuum hose. She screamed at my sister and I to turn it off, but we were in fits of laughter. Eventually we did, and Bluey was shaken, but unharmed.

A couple of weeks later, he did his perch spinning routine, and plummeted straight down from the perch, braining himself and killing himself instantly.

I often wondered if it was suicide.
(V3lvetPresley, Fri 1 Feb 2013, 20:11, 8 replies)

Burnley has a posh end?

( Locus213 Slightly to the left of Bakunin, Fri 1 Feb 2013, 20:31, closed)

No. Not in the slightest. Brierfield did, though, a nice little bit right at the bottom, after the decaying terraced houses.
(V3lvetPresley, Sat 2 Feb 2013, 1:46, closed)

This deserves merit
for the simple fact that I've never seen the word 'Lo' used in anything other than a Christmas Carol. Kudos.
(SonoraAeroClub "OH SWEET HELEN OF BALLS!", Sat 2 Feb 2013, 2:07, closed)

Olde English is BEST. I even have a curly moustache.
(V3lvetPresley, Tue 5 Feb 2013, 19:24, closed)

Beaks don't grow back.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Sat 2 Feb 2013, 10:39, closed)

They certainly don't. Joey didn't go back with his mum, he got his neck stretched and thrown in the bin.
(cs1ca, Sat 2 Feb 2013, 12:52, closed)

Shit... really? I was told he was a wee baby, so it would grow back.

I was lied to.

I'll be having words with my Mum.
(V3lvetPresley, Tue 5 Feb 2013, 19:25, closed)

I've heard it said that caging birds is cruel.
Clearly not so.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Sat 2 Feb 2013, 12:06, closed)