In a message dated 8/21/02 8:53:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Hi Bettye, > > I have a Parrot that I would almost give up - not quite, she is OK as long > as I am very careful with her. Can reach in and feed her and change water > - > but does she want to be friends - Not On Your Life, and don't touch her. > Appropriately she is a Conure - and boy was I conned when I bought her - > have some bite scars that I will take to my grave!!! > > Marge > Arrgh! You have my sympathy! My experience with conures has been uniformly bad. They are psychotic little critters even for birds. Most small animals will warm up to their people after awhile, but conures will pick a particular person and be fine with them and completely wackadoyhoy with everyone else. A friendof mine was rooked (no pun intended) into buying a one-eyed conure that turned out to be schizoid. As long as itwas in its cage it was fine, if a little noisy-it had a call like fingernails on a chalkboard...at 90 decibels! If it managed to get out or be let out it would fly around in a dead panic like there were invisible snakes everywhere in the room. And heaven help you if you tried to catch him! Psycho Bird, as my buddy called him, had to be netted with a big blanket to be put back in his cage. As soon as the cage door was shut, he went back to his old self. At last my friend could satnd it no longer, being a little nervous himself, and I inherited the little monster. A visiting lady friend noticed the cage and walked up to it. PB hopped right up to her and sang a sweet little tune. I was floored! Even more so when she opened the door and he popped out and sat on her finger! Most animals trust me implicitly, but Psycho Bird never did. Guess who he went home with...? I'll stiuck with my tropical fish. they don't bark, they don't shed and they only piddle on the rug if you take them out of their tanks. =) Calvin B. Littlefield, IBSSG "Crikey! Have a look at this bloke! Hes a bit grumpy!" -- Crocodile Hunter

Cal, Is your Lady Friend still around - she could take "Buddy" on her awful days. Perhaps I got off on the wrong foot with her in the first place - the Pet Store Woman told me that "this bird is a male" - hence the name "Buddy" - well that was OK until she got a bit older and began to lay eggs!!! No egg laying anymore, but she is grumpy at regular intervals - and gets what my Grandmother would call "Broody." My youngest Daughter told me all Buddy needs is hormones, and that would fix her right up. Thanks for your comments - at least I'm not the only person who "got took" by having on of these birds!!! She is pretty smart though - phone rings, she says Hello - doorbell rings - she says Hello. Torments the Cat by calling her in the same tone of voice that I have - here Meow!!! Clean out the cats box - and she says Ackkk, give her seeds and she says Mmmmm. She is smarter than some of my relatives, and that is a fact - so guess I'll have to keep her!!! Marge ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:29 PM Subject: [BSChat] Parrots and Conures and Koi, Oh My! > In a message dated 8/21/02 8:53:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > > Hi Bettye, > > > > I have a Parrot that I would almost give up - not quite, she is OK as long > > as I am very careful with her. Can reach in and feed her and change water > > - > > but does she want to be friends - Not On Your Life, and don't touch her. > > Appropriately she is a Conure - and boy was I conned when I bought her - > > have some bite scars that I will take to my grave!!! > > > > Marge > > > > Arrgh! You have my sympathy! My experience with conures has been > uniformly bad. They are psychotic little critters even for birds. Most small > animals will warm up to their people after awhile, but conures will pick a > particular person and be fine with them and completely wackadoyhoy with > everyone else. A friendof mine was rooked (no pun intended) into buying a > one-eyed conure that turned out to be schizoid. As long as itwas in its cage > it was fine, if a little noisy-it had a call like fingernails on a > chalkboard...at 90 decibels! If it managed to get out or be let out it would > fly around in a dead panic like there were invisible snakes everywhere in the > room. And heaven help you if you tried to catch him! Psycho Bird, as my > buddy called him, had to be netted with a big blanket to be put back in his > cage. As soon as the cage door was shut, he went back to his old self. At > last my friend could satnd it no longer, being a little nervous himself, and > I inherited the little monster. A visiting lady friend noticed the cage and > walked up to it. PB hopped right up to her and sang a sweet little tune. I > was floored! Even more so when she opened the door and he popped out and sat > on her finger! Most animals trust me implicitly, but Psycho Bird never did. > Guess who he went home with...? > > I'll stiuck with my tropical fish. they don't bark, they don't shed and > they only piddle on the rug if you take them out of their tanks. =) > > Calvin B. Littlefield, IBSSG > > "Crikey! Have a look at this bloke! Hes a bit grumpy!" -- Crocodile > Hunter > > > ==== BLACKSHEEP-CHAT Mailing List ==== > Unsubscribe from the list: > Mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe&body=unsub scribe > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >