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From: mary@dinorah.wustl.edu (Mary E. Leibach)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Indoor: I did it!
Message-ID: <1990May30.170026.20250@dinorah.wustl.edu>
Date: 30 May 90 17:00:26 GMT
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In-Reply-To: bjb@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM's message of 21 May 90 12:20:51 GMT

[I posted this a while back, but the poster was broken.]

bjb@ncrorl.Orlando.NCR.COM (Barbara Bowen) writes:

>Oh, for macaws & cockatoos, be sure to use wire that
>is galvanized AFTER welding.

Try to get it for ANY parrot.  Wire that has been welded last is
covered with icky char.  About the best way to clean it is with a dry
cloth.  You rub and rub and rub and rub and rub and rub and rub and
rub and rub and rub and rub and rub and rub and rub and rub and rub 
and RUB.  Then you put your bird in it, and shortly the bird has
turned black from climbing around on it.  While this may sound like a
great way to dress up your cockatoo as a Black Palm Cockatoo for the
school play to dramatize the evils of bird smuggling (BOO! HISS!), it
is hardly something you want to deal with on a daily basis.
Particularly when the bird in question thinks bird baths are food and
water dishes.  ;-)

Just for everyone's info, Safeguard cages are galvanized BEFORE
welding.  Dumb idea, but somebody has to do it.

	-Mary and Blake's Birds

		Blake's Birds Views (on water and bathing)

Cally: I like to wade.  I will hop into the bird bath and just sit in
the water.  I enjoy water being sprinkled or sprayed on me.  And I
love to take cereal baths.  "Peekaboo!"

Vila:  I love water.  Any kind but the spray bottle.  I play in my
water dishes, I bath in any size body of water.  I am fascinated by
running water.  The sound of a vacume sweeper makes me want to throw
water around.  I also enjoy taking "hair baths" in Mary's hair.
"Pretty!"

Blakey: I don't know what the big deal is.  Water is for drinking.
Period.  And I don't drink all that much water.  Though I do like
playing with my mirror friend at the bottom of my water dish (bird
bath).  "Hi, Blakey!"

Del:  I like baths.

Dayna:  I enjoy baths as much as Del.  However, I do not understand
what all the fuss is about when I use my dishes as toilets.