Ra Max

My ten year old CAG is very used to me vacuuming around his cage- I have to because of his powder- also he likes to grab a handful of food and throw it to get attention occasionally- anyway- I've been vacuuming almost every day for this long- ten years- and his reaction is the same and kind of puzzling. He turns upside-down, gets in a top corner of the cage and stares a the vacuum like he's in a trance. Even after I am through and have shut it off and put it away- he's in the same position for awhile looking trance-like. It's kind of comical, but I wonder what it means- is it his reaction to the sound of it?

Still from oldmolly when she reads this one. It sounds as if you may have a misconception which seems to be deeply engrained (and unexamined) by our culture, ie. the notoin that we as humans are in charge. For sure a classic example of this presumptuous attitude can be found in Genesis 1:26: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thin that creepeth upon the earth. Well it seems no one told the fowl of the air (includin the African grey) In addition about this arangement.