Way back when!!!

[Jayd]

:cool:Back around 1988, one of our many birds was a female Quaker. After Jay's father passed away, we invited Jay's Mom (who I called Mom) to live with us. She didn't see her best to the left of each eye so in the afternoons, she would sit on her bed (she had a large patio window) and read or do crossword puzzles. Wacky Quaker was a quiet bird and our boys (then 10 and 12 years old) would sneak in the bedroom with Wacky Quaker and quietly set her on the end of Mom's bed. As soon as she saw Mom, she'd take off running, mouth open, silent, head down right for Mom's bum...scaring the .....out of Mom. Then she would start squawking...Mom would yell at the boys who were in the hall rolling on the floor laughing..."Jayson, GET THIS WACKY BIRD OUT OF HERE!"

Wacky's cage was at the entrance to the hall and again, she was allowed to be free like all our birds and whenever Mom went down the hallway, Wacky would lean over as far as she could to bite Mom's bum...she never did this to anyone else...just her.

;)Another one of our birds at the time was a rare Grey-Cheeked Parakeet (you don't see many of them anymore in captivity because they don't breed well in captivity..[Not green cheek conure!] a lot of them were imported legally and illegally in the late '70's and '80's) These birds are born tame and extremely social and we had one named Jose'. Our oldest son had a cockatiel (his personal bird named P.B.) Our boys always loved to play with Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys. These three birds also loved Lincoln Logs and Tinker Toys and it was very common for them to sneak into the boy's room and run around the house with these toys in their beaks...you never knew where they would turn up. Mom would be trying to vacuum and Wacky would run at her, wings wide open, Tinker Toy in her mouth like a spear and try to attack poor Mom and the vacuum cleaner....

Mom would yell and Jose would scream "Play Dead" and fall off his perch, hanging off his perch, playing dead....

Maggie:p

(We have stories and we still miss everyone of our birds that are no longer with us...I'm sure that Wacky is trying to bite Mom's bum wherever they might be...)

Maggie

http://www.avianweb.com/greycheekparakeets.html

Edited June 18, 2010 by Jayd

[Jayd]

You could walk into a pet store with 20+ of these guy's in a cage, put your arm in the cage, they would all jump on your arm and play or hang upside down! These were wild caught birds, never trained!!!!!