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Sometimes, Max likes playing with toy components as much as she likes playing with the toys. She really treasured this bead, playing with it for over 10 minutes -- an eternity in Max-time!
With a scrap of veggie-tanned leather, I made her a little foot toy:
About to work on the knot:
She is very proficient at untying knots without ruining the leather, so I restrung the beads and took a video of her handiwork:
4 comments:
Wow - so quick, but so gentle at the same time. That might be world record bird-untying-knot-time! We've got some old rope and fishing line that we could use some help with ;)
Yes, maybe I should start hiring out her skills!
Sadly, she only works when she wants to, and mostly only with leather and beads.
She'd probably just clip that fishing line :) Thanks for the laugh!!!
Clever birdie!
Stewie thinks that brute force is the answer to everything! And most of the time he can't be bothered unless it involved a treat. (But give him a foraging toy that can be opened by just banging it around forcefully, and he's all over it.)
But I should teach Mika to undo knots; she'd be good at it. Or on second thought, maybe I shouldn't teach her that lest she learn to undo lots of things that shouldn't be undone.
Everyone else relies on brute force, but Max is quite dainty and gentle!
I didn't do anything special to teach her to untie knots -- she just had the toys in her cage and would unstring the beads and then play with them.
Now I praise her for it, since I think it's adorable, but she taught herself!
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