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From: helen@argosy.UUCP (Helen Kastner)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: INDOOR: Wing clipping
Message-ID: <910@argosy.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 91 19:17:29 GMT
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Reply-To: helen@europa.UUCP (Helen Kastner)
Organization: MasPar Computer Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA
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just another opinion on clipping.  First, my moloccan
cockatoo is just too big to fly in my apt.  Windows
scare him, his wingspan is too big for hallways and
doors, and he's a klutz, trying to land on picture 
frames.  

regarding trauma:  He stands on edge of door, I lift
and extend one wing, and start clipping away, using
gardening pruning clippers, as scissors aren't
heavy enough to cut the feather shaft cleanly. He
shakes everything back into place when I'm done.
I can see what I'm doing, and it doesn't bother him.
Main trauma is I won't let him chew on the clipper
handles.

There's a big flock of mixed Amazons living in a park
in San Francisco; I bet all those former owners wished
they'd clipped a wing or two.

hk
helen@maspar.com                    
MasPar Computer Corporation           "Resistance is useless!"
Sunnyvale, CA