Unexpected skills taken from job: Ability to identify a newspaper by its page thickness and size.

For the majority of the cages, you use four full sheets of newspaper, which usually fit into the cage trays perfectly height-wise but are too short to completely fill it length-wise. You slide two sheets over to fill this gap. I'm usually opening ( Read more... )

Gidget is one of the 20-some-odd studio parrots. He's a beautiful bird--full, glossy red feathers interspersed with iridescent blue, plump.

Gidget hates me.

Gidget hates everyone. It's unfortunate, a lot of the birds in there are badly socialized and will bite you as soon as accept food from you, but this fellow--he is evil incarnate.

He likes to ( Read more... )