Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!jtb901 From: jtb901@leah.Albany.Edu (Jim) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Cockatiels Summary: misc stuff Message-ID: <1107@leah.Albany.Edu> Date: 14 Oct 88 14:42:23 GMT References: <1521@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> Organization: SUNY Albany Lines: 41 In article <1521@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>, miller@galaxy.ee.rochester.edu (Ruth Miller) writes: > > I bet you don't know what "unfriendly as possible" means! Try threatening > a lovebird who thinks the paper bag she's in is her nest! Did you know > birds hiss, just like cats? > Uh, yeah, uh-huh. My cockatiel (Fripp's his name, by the way) says, "F! F! F!F!", and if you *really* bug him, he'll emit a nasty sounding screaming sound. > ...though > the cockatoo sounds like a very nice bird. Does he like strangers? > CockaTIEL! 8^) He beat somebody up once for calling him a cockatoo ;^) Well, he'll sit on stranger's hands or arms for a little while, but he seems nervous. He'll get nervous with me too, but not all the time. I'm always gentle with him. Is this the way to "train" them, or should I be "rouger" (to a point!). > On waking birds up--our birds wake up slowly too--it usually takes them > a few minutes to become cordial if you suddenly turn on lights in the > dark. You said it. > Mornings, they are up before we are, so that is not a problem. NO?! 8:30am, you've been drinking heavily the night before... CHIRP! SINGSING! CHIRP! 8^) > Is the cockatiel a baby? The ones I've seen here, they get used to > people before they sell them. He's a few months old (maybe a year). -- | BITNET: jtb901@albny1vx | "I can see the future, | | jtb901@albnyvm1 | and it's a place about 70 miles | | INTERNET: jtb901@leah.albany.edu | west of here." | | | -Laurie Anderson |