Allee
Well-known member
Hi Feathered Ones! Do you get tired of the same old chop for dinner every day? This is my own personal recipe, I think you'll like it. It's easy to make, but it requires a little planning.
Try to do your foraging during time out of your cage. If you are an 'only,' you'll need to use your own things or things pilfered from your humans. If you have flock brothers and sisters, you can probably talk them out of a few items, if they aren't willing to donate the goods, steal them! I'm using budgie toys this evening. Choose toys with bright colors, and use a variety. I snagged an entire toy and smuggled it into my cage. Hide it among your foot toys until the coast is clear. Then wait until you have a fresh, full bowl of sparkling water, the bigger, the better! Now---look smug and wait until the humans are elsewhere.
Retrieve your smuggled goods and dump them randomly into your water bowl, stir gently until the vegetable dye starts to bleed into the water. Be creative, add the veggies you ignored earlier, toss in a leather strip for flavor, a couple of dried peppers, pellets, anything loose that you don't mind forfeiting, believe me, you won't get any of the soup ingredients back. When your bowl is full, stir again and allow to soak as long as possible. Stay alert, if your human catches on, you're done before the stew is.
If you followed instructions, this is what your soup should look like.
Now, this is important, stand over your bowl and scream until your parront shows up to see what the problem is. When your parront arrives, stare into your bowl and look bewildered, like you can't begin to guess what happened here. More than likely your human will freak out, you can't blame them, they'll think you already tasted the concoction. Don't worry, sterilizing and refilling the bowl will give your caregivers plenty of time to collect themselves and possibly call poison control or your vet. You may even get a bonus snack. Parronts hate putting us to bed without dinner.
When they return with a fresh bowl of sparkling water----
Hide, if there's no place to hide, stand in plain sight and look precious. Do you know a few key words? Use em if ya got em! 'Nite Nite' is a good choice, 'Pretty Bird' works too. If your human has a really grim look, use the best of the best, 'I Love You'.
Now start planning a new recipe to use the next time your human asks you to eat broccoli.
. But I can't say it looks appetizing uugh!
High comedy, Allee! I always love your Poppy-narrated chronicles! She is such an expressive character!
