Mistaken Identity with the Pet Bird

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We have a beautiful Lutino cockatiel who lives on a shelf instead of in a cage. My husband clips her wings so she can't fly terribly far, but sometimes she'll jump off of the shelf and start walking around the house and she looks like a little bitty chicken to me. So the other day my little boy was standing near the bird's shelf and holding this plastic chicken toy he got in a kids' meal at Wendy's, and in the first brief moment I looked at him standing there, I thought he was holding the bird by the neck. It scared me to death until I realized what was really going on! I've chuckled over this several times since it happened. Anyone else have funny stories like this??