Sunnybirb
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- Dec 24, 2017
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- Parrots
- Sunny the blue and gold macaw.
Sunny tries to feed me 24/7. If I walk by, regurg. If I look at her, regurg. If I'm standing in the hallway and she can see me through the open door on the other end of the house, regurg! When she's sitting on the bed while I draw or watch tv, that's when it get's serious.
Her favorite thing to do is to sneak across on the left side. She waits until my head is down and I'm concentrating on something. If I look up, she immediately halts her bird shuffle and pretends to be looking at piece of lint on the sheet. She waits patiently to strike. I take a brief glance at my phone, then suddenly I look up and there's a macaw on my knee! If my hand is resting near her, she takes her chance and grabs it with a foot, generally holding it up a little, like we're holding hands. Then the regurgitation starts.
I end up with a bunch of gross vomit seed/rice/veggies all over my hand and my side of the bed, and when I move my hand away, I get a pinch between my fingers from a beak and then a SQUAAAAAAAAWWWK!!!! How could I be so ungrateful? Here she is vomiting up her delicious lunch and I'm not letting her feed it to me?? Sunny always gets her feelings hurt (and lets just face it: she's pretty sensitive, so this is like all the time), then retreats to the farthest reaches of my knee and stares at me adoringly. It usually takes 10-15 minutes before she gets tired, and then her eyes start to flutter closed and one foot goes up. Maybe some preening of her chest, or if she's close enough, my shirt, then she drifts to sleep.
This routine is pretty normal. Discovering her love of the Xbox remote was actually an accident. Sunny was being extra beaky one day, and was chasing at the blankets and anything else on the bed (RIP toes), and she went for the Xbox controller like she was going to tear some chunks from it and make it sorry for being in her space! I grabbed it immediately, since it was the Elite controller that is a lot more expensive than the regular one, and she paused, her beak was open and she had angry birdy eyes.
I decided to tap on her beak with the controller to break her out of her raptor pose, and it was like someone had pressed the pause button. She didn't move. She was like a birdy statue, so I tapped her one more time out of pure curiosity, and bam! Instant regurg. I shrugged, thinking she was doing her normal routine, and set the controller on the bed. Immediately she looked at me, then ran over (with her funny birdy run) to the controller, gripped it with one foot, and lovingly regurgitated for it. I thought it was kind of funny, not realizing that it was to become a full on Sunny obsession.
From that point forward, whenever she would see it, she would run to it like it was her old friend, grip it in a taloned death grip (try having her do it to your hand; it's like holding hands with Freddy Krueger), and regurgitate over and over for it, thankfully with most of the bird spit up staying in her mouth. Occasionally I will find little crusties on the joysticks, or maybe a chunk of carrot stuck on the D pad, but that's okay.
The most interesting part about this xbox controller obsession, is that it's only for the Elite one and not for the others. The Elite has some silver on it, while the others are plain black. She also very much enjoys being tapped on the beak with it, and in the midst of any tantrum, the savage beast can be calmed. But there is a catch! Any time the bf has the controller, she instead bites at it and avoids it. He can leave it on the bed for her and she will completely ignore it. The minute I pick it up and tap her with it, she blissfully regurges over and over.
I think she thinks it's my beak! Or an extension of me or something! Either way, she loves her controller. I try to make sure she gets her time with it, since it seems to be her favorite object.
Her favorite thing to do is to sneak across on the left side. She waits until my head is down and I'm concentrating on something. If I look up, she immediately halts her bird shuffle and pretends to be looking at piece of lint on the sheet. She waits patiently to strike. I take a brief glance at my phone, then suddenly I look up and there's a macaw on my knee! If my hand is resting near her, she takes her chance and grabs it with a foot, generally holding it up a little, like we're holding hands. Then the regurgitation starts.
I end up with a bunch of gross vomit seed/rice/veggies all over my hand and my side of the bed, and when I move my hand away, I get a pinch between my fingers from a beak and then a SQUAAAAAAAAWWWK!!!! How could I be so ungrateful? Here she is vomiting up her delicious lunch and I'm not letting her feed it to me?? Sunny always gets her feelings hurt (and lets just face it: she's pretty sensitive, so this is like all the time), then retreats to the farthest reaches of my knee and stares at me adoringly. It usually takes 10-15 minutes before she gets tired, and then her eyes start to flutter closed and one foot goes up. Maybe some preening of her chest, or if she's close enough, my shirt, then she drifts to sleep.
This routine is pretty normal. Discovering her love of the Xbox remote was actually an accident. Sunny was being extra beaky one day, and was chasing at the blankets and anything else on the bed (RIP toes), and she went for the Xbox controller like she was going to tear some chunks from it and make it sorry for being in her space! I grabbed it immediately, since it was the Elite controller that is a lot more expensive than the regular one, and she paused, her beak was open and she had angry birdy eyes.
I decided to tap on her beak with the controller to break her out of her raptor pose, and it was like someone had pressed the pause button. She didn't move. She was like a birdy statue, so I tapped her one more time out of pure curiosity, and bam! Instant regurg. I shrugged, thinking she was doing her normal routine, and set the controller on the bed. Immediately she looked at me, then ran over (with her funny birdy run) to the controller, gripped it with one foot, and lovingly regurgitated for it. I thought it was kind of funny, not realizing that it was to become a full on Sunny obsession.
From that point forward, whenever she would see it, she would run to it like it was her old friend, grip it in a taloned death grip (try having her do it to your hand; it's like holding hands with Freddy Krueger), and regurgitate over and over for it, thankfully with most of the bird spit up staying in her mouth. Occasionally I will find little crusties on the joysticks, or maybe a chunk of carrot stuck on the D pad, but that's okay.
The most interesting part about this xbox controller obsession, is that it's only for the Elite one and not for the others. The Elite has some silver on it, while the others are plain black. She also very much enjoys being tapped on the beak with it, and in the midst of any tantrum, the savage beast can be calmed. But there is a catch! Any time the bf has the controller, she instead bites at it and avoids it. He can leave it on the bed for her and she will completely ignore it. The minute I pick it up and tap her with it, she blissfully regurges over and over.
I think she thinks it's my beak! Or an extension of me or something! Either way, she loves her controller. I try to make sure she gets her time with it, since it seems to be her favorite object.
