I Kiss His Little BeakcuervolindaAugust 24 2006, 21:44:57 UTC
He is adorable! Such lovely plumage and bright eyes! My birds would flip out if I tried to put a harness on them. Did you start harness training him early on?
Re: I Kiss His Little Beakskye_dsAugust 24 2006, 22:15:27 UTC
Yes ma'am we did. Early on, he flew off on us twice while outside, the day after a wing clip no less.
The first time he flew into woods and landed in a fire-ant pile to discover that fire-ants are not our friends.
Second time, he flew off in a public park in downtown Austin and landed on electric/phone wires 25 feet above the ground, right next to a tree. He was obviously terrified, and obviously didn't know how to get back down again. (Same way you got up there, birdbrain, but anyway...) Dear Husband does not know how to climb trees. I do, but I was in a skirt. And no, I could not just take the skirt off. (Nothing underneath it.) So I paid a park transient to climb up the tree and get him down. He wouldn't step up for the transient. The transient scared him, so he flew off, down into the riverbed that flirts beneath a MAJOR downtown roadway...
So his first harness was a feather tether and now he's on an Aviator flight harness with a flight leash. We also use a jess-like foot tether and leash designed by bloolark, founder of parrot_lovers
Resistance to da Cute is futile; you will be assimilated. All your bases are belong to Kickentoot ;-P
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His majesty has his own photo galleries -
http://photos.yahoo.com/skye_ds
http://photobucket.com/albums/d110/SkyeDS > Arthur
Bet Kickentoot will be the only one in his preschool with a pet alligator ;-)
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The first time he flew into woods and landed in a fire-ant pile to discover that fire-ants are not our friends.
Second time, he flew off in a public park in downtown Austin and landed on electric/phone wires 25 feet above the ground, right next to a tree. He was obviously terrified, and obviously didn't know how to get back down again. (Same way you got up there, birdbrain, but anyway...) Dear Husband does not know how to climb trees. I do, but I was in a skirt. And no, I could not just take the skirt off. (Nothing underneath it.) So I paid a park transient to climb up the tree and get him down. He wouldn't step up for the transient. The transient scared him, so he flew off, down into the riverbed that flirts beneath a MAJOR downtown roadway...
So his first harness was a feather tether and now he's on an Aviator flight harness with a flight leash. We also use a jess-like foot tether and leash designed by bloolark, founder of parrot_lovers
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