Why I've Been MIA...
Jan. 7th, 2012 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiffie
His name is Hermes. My cousin just kinda... dropped him off.
So. Yeah. The last week has been split between OH GOD SCHOOL and OH GOD BIRD.
kiffieHis name is Hermes. My cousin just kinda... dropped him off.
So. Yeah. The last week has been split between OH GOD SCHOOL and OH GOD BIRD.
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Date: 2012-01-08 01:42 am (UTC)I mean, MY, Hermes, what nice winged ... um boots? No, wings! What nice WINGS you have. ;-) Don't eat Kiffie, 'kay? I'm rather fond of her...
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Date: 2012-01-08 03:18 am (UTC)That is all X3
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Date: 2012-01-08 06:25 pm (UTC)owlsbirds. :Dno subject
Date: 2012-01-08 11:06 am (UTC)*scritches Hermes behind his crest* So, surprise-to-you acquisition of new and possibly high-maintenace animal. How is it going? Did Hermes belong to your cousin, or was s/he acting merely as a bird courier? I assume you have already found www.cockatiel.com using the magic of Google? How are you doing? (Are you driven nuts with singing? Stressed? *hugs*)
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Date: 2012-01-08 06:35 pm (UTC)Cousin was sitting outside, nomming some noms, when Bird landed on her head. Bird proceeded to wolf-whistle, then chew on her earrings. Cousin decided to keep Bird when none of the "Found Bird" posters they put up bore fruit. This worked for about a month. Then Cousin realized that Bird was causing the horrible rash she'd begun to notice all over her body. Whoops. Time to give Bird to unwitting Kiffies.
Kiffies agreed, of course, because the alternative was Bird going to the pound.
I've been... Well, I've been dealing. A few days after I got him, I took him in for a check-up and found out he has a chest infection. So our last week or so of "bonding" has been "TAKE THE DAMN BAYTRIL YOU FEATHERED MONEY PIT." This is probably not the best way to begin a relationship, but it can't be helped.
And, as far as singing, up until yesterday, I was beginning to think he couldn't sing. He'd wolf-whistled a few times, and made a flock call when I left the room for too long, but he hadn't made any real tunes. Then, out of nowhere, he started going off on something similar to, but not exactly, the Army Morning Wakeup Call. Now he's shown he knows at least three other tunes, plus a variety of little noises. I've been trying to get him to learn "Pretty Bird" and the Andy Griffith Show theme, but he seems content to go off with his own little whistles.
I'm used to living with birds, mah ely. This is hardly a new thing. X3
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Date: 2012-01-09 03:04 am (UTC)Hermes may conclude that an angry kiff causes health. :o
Maybe he wasn't singing because he didn't feel well. But your respective choices of things to whistle amuse me.
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Date: 2012-01-09 06:15 am (UTC)Giving him meds is doubly entertaining (to an outsider, natch) because he can't really hiss properly. It comes out more like a mildly asthmatic gasp, with a squeaky undertone. So I'm trying to towel this broken squeak toy that keeps going for my hands, and every so often lunging to a degree that I drop the towel. I fail, I think.
Maybe I should teach him the proper Reveille, since he seems to already know something along those lines? Heaven help anyone who wants to sleep in. XD
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Date: 2012-01-09 05:18 pm (UTC)Oh, how I remember that trying-to-hiss noise. Double-check on the cranky. Alas, poor kiffie!fingers.
What a wonderful an unexpected new gift should his owner reclaimh iM! DO EET. XD