He did feel the need to (halfheartedly) threaten me when I was taking the above picture:
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From 2007-2011 this blog was mainly about my animals with a bit of off-topic chatter. Then my husband shocked me by confessing to an affair. We've divorced. Life is better than ever!
About Me
My flock
- Max (TAG): hatched 10/31/01; purchased 3/09/02
- Calypso (BHC): hatched 2/95; adopted 5/04
- Andreas (uromastyx lizard): wildcaught; purchased 5/07
Former foster
Lost in the divorce
- Stella, CAG: hatched 02?, adopted 5/08, rehomed 1/7/12
- Rocky, severe macaw: hatched 87, adopted 8/06, surrendered 1/8/12, adopted to new family 8/11/12
- Basil, BFA: hatched 04? fostered 12/5/10-1/21/12
- Aquarium: set up 1/06, rehomed 7/12
Gone but not forgotten
- Lenny, budgie, died 2005
- Ethel, budgie, died 2006
- Jeff Saturday, budgie, died 2008
- Daphne, budgie, died 4/27/10
- Elsa, uromastyx lizard, died 9/14/11
- Brian, budgie, died 11/14/11
- Beeps, caique, died 6/15/14
Followers
Are you being cheated on?
- Chump Lady
- Baggage Reclaim (all relationship issues)
- Marc and Angel (inspirational, even if you are not being cheated on)
- Getting Past Your Breakup (the book is better!)
- Passive Aggressive (Yikes!)
- George Simon -- dealing with manipulative people
- Emotional Abusers
- Personality Disorders (Psych Forum)
- Borderline Personality Disorder - male traits
Blogs I read
- 10,000 Birds
- A Parrot For Keeps
- Avian Explorer
- Beloved Parrot
- Ben & Carrie: Wildlife biologists
- Best in Flock
- Chipper's Alley
- Crazy Aunt Purl
- Dolittler: A veterinary blog
- DweezelJazz
- Heckled by Parrots
- Helping them Speak
- Homeless Parrot
- Life of Pis
- Lizards in Scarves
- Mary Hughes
- Mooky's Hood
- On the Needles
- Quantum Leaps
- Song for Jasmine
- Sugar Selections
- Superior Parrot
- The Finsters
- The Gut Cup
- Wendy Knits
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- Outtakes
- Double nosy
- Tuesday evening
- Greens
- Berry surprise
- Crash landing
- Solutions
- In which Max irritates Rocky
- On call
- Nutty Stella
- More Brian pictures
- I'm making a lasagne...
- Rocky
- Dinner time
- Blood bite
- Weekend randomness
- Breakfast
- Mr. Hormone
- Grey censors
- The bag man & gawkers
- More Rocky
- The lurker
- Weird helper
- Puzzler
- Amsterdam birding
- And we're back
- More pictures
- Traitor
- Rocky's scab removal service
- Allopreening routine
- Perching
- Threats
- Baking
- Almonds
- Sunlight
- Greys
- Basil shows more of his personality
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2 comments:
Thanks for sharing! I find it a big hoot to read about Rocky! Ever wonder why he loves your spouse so much? For some reason my severe macaw really liked me from the start and I didn't even LIKE any type of macaw at the time. I've often wondered about how and why Severes seem to be drawn to certain people and simply *tolerate* other people.
Severes are among the most one-person bonded of all the parrot species, so Thomas got lucky with Rocky. I've had severes at the rescue where I volunteer who absolutely loved me -- we just didn't bring them home :)
That being said, macaws in general tend to love him. He is confident handling them, plays with them like they love, and there's just something about him they like. I joke he is half-macaw since it is the rare macaw that doesn't love him.
I do have frequent talks with Rocky about how much better his life would be if he had two people that could play hands-on with him, but he's not listening. Luckily our relationship has improved over the past 5 years, so maybe 10-15 years down the road he'll love me as much as he loves Thomas. I can only hope!
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