How many of you can relate to this?!

[RavensGryf]

Dominic was my Dad's bird and *I* inherited him! (Dominic, not Dad...)

However, you'd think I was Typhoid Mary, the way he treats me (Dominic, not Dad). As far as Dom's concerned, Kim - my husband - is the best thing since sliced human flesh! Like Julie said, I'm 'just okay' in Dom's eyes. He'll permit me to hold him, to stroke him occasionally and once in a blue moon, he'll allow me to put him to bed. If I take the tiniest step out of line (that is, if I walk by more than the most direct straight line from Dom's cage to his fridge or from his fridge to the kitchen sink), then I get a disciplinary chomping. If anything frightens Dominic while I'm in his vicinity, then he'll bite me as a punishment.

My husband? Noo-oooo-oo! He's a saint! He can pick Dom up and ruffle his feathers (Dom's, not Kim's) and move him about roughly with complete impugnity. I've only got to look sideways and I get bitten! You should see my arms: they're covered with the record of Dommie's feelings about me. When it's bedtime, I have to call Kim or Matthew to put Dom to bed because as soon as ever I pick him up (Dom, not Kim), he'll have a hunk out of my flesh because he knows he's going home and doesn't want to go. Even the Vet can handle Dom fairly easily without getting bitten, but not me.

I'd feel really bad about this, only he hates my daughter far worse than he hates me (Dom, not the Vet). Just this arvo, he flew across the room to bite her. Fortunately, he only got her hair, but I shudder to think of the consequences if he'd bitten her face. Poor Ellie has to run whenever she passes through the kitchen because if Dominic's on the table, he will gallop toward her menacingly as if to eat her all up!

The only reason we can think of for all this is that Dom belonged to Dad (a man) and continues to prefer men. Also, after Dad died, it was Mum (a woman) who kept Dom in the rather awful circumstances in which I found him (she had dementia). I often wonder whether he felt betrayed and wronged by Mum and holds a grudge against all women as a result.

None of it matters, though, as we all love our Dommie with a great intensity. We understand that he's a damaged personality and that we owe him a decent life now. He repays it all with his incredibly hilarious personality and optimistic outlook.

OMG... I was ROTFL Trish I loved your "(Dom, not Dad), (Dom, not Kim), (Dom, not the vet)....

 

[RavensGryf]

when I get time to read and type!

Keep your chin up......almost over ?

Joe

We're finishing moving MOST stuff today, then the U-Haul tomorrow for the big stuff and bird cages. SO HECTIC... Not to mention driving back and forth a couple times a day 30 miles trying to avoid the SoCal rush hour, and being back in the afternoon to give Robin his 3 times a day meds! After Thursday it's twice a day. It's the worst possible week to have someone need meds 3 times a day ugh.

 

[GW.Joe]

when I get time to read and type!

Keep your chin up......almost over ?

Joe

We're finishing moving MOST stuff today, then the U-Haul tomorrow for the big stuff and bird cages. SO HECTIC... Not to mention driving back and forth a couple times a day 30 miles trying to avoid the SoCal rush hour, and being back in the afternoon to give Robin his 3 times a day meds! After Thursday it's twice a day. It's the worst possible week to have someone need meds 3 times a day ugh.

Almost done !! BTW I can relate to three times a day meds, We can't go anywhere overnight for the foreseeable future because of Ra's meds

*HUGS*

Joe

 

[RavensGryf]

Almost done !! BTW I can relate to three times a day meds, We can't go anywhere overnight for the foreseeable future because of Ra's meds

*HUGS*

Joe

Hugs too... Poor Ra, I hope the meds make him feel more comfortable, and I do hope that he ends up doing better than expected and having a longer life too.