Which is worse dilemma

Hahahaha! I knew you felt like family! No I did not know about this game! I love their website! I filled out the survey in the hopes of winning some of their games because for sure my son is getting one of these for Christmas!!! One day our bird was sitting on his perch in the living room. The front door was open except for the screen door. My brother was upstairs getting ready to vacuum his room when he heard 'chop chop chop chop', hehehe, it was really 'knock knock knock knock', but he thought one of us was in the kitchen prepping for dinner. The bird says "Hellloooo!" and my brother answers back "Helllloooo" then the bird says "Hellllooo" again and my brother answers the same, they go back and forth like this for a minute or so, then my brother says "Goodbye" and switches on the vacuum cleaner. Nobody ever answered the door to our landlord, who was already pretty perturbed with us as it was. He called us on the phone later ranting about standing there at our door with a bunch of lunatics yelling hello hello goodbye but nobody ever answering the door. We got kicked out of that house eventually, hehehe.

PS: Great links btw!!! I know they are telling the truth too... no way our house would have burned down without that bird of ours waking us all up! That was really funny about the smoke alarm!! I bet the bird had been around burnt dinners with the smoke detector going off!

I was laughing so hard just sampling the zobmondo site. Of course, I had to ask some of the questions to Boyfriend who after three disgusting dilemmas begged that I let him read his school book instead. Also, don't you think we could use their questions here on myLot and find out what the people here are really like? I do hope you get to win that game for your son. I like your hello goodbye story. Reminds me of the Target commercial. The landlord must have thought that you guys were mocking him as he waited at the door. I'm glad you enjoyed the fire alarm bird links as much as I did.

By the way, how the heck did this discussion end up being created in the CATS section??

I have been bitten by a bird myself and would have to say it is one of the most painful things ever! This bird was a cockatiel and his name was Boris. I had a second one with him called Yeltsin! lol. I have attached a picture of a cockatiel because I think they are called different names in other countries..... He couldn't speak but used to imitate a number of different sounds. He was a biter too so he's lucky he didn't end up wall bound himself actually!

This discussion ended up in the cats section because I figured a pet is a pet is a pet. In other words, I was too lazy to add 'talking birds' to my interests. What kind of a bird did you have? That sounds very cute, his imitating the doorbell and your car starting. And your grandmother must have been very flattered! Hehehehe. And while I never considered having him for Thanksgiving dinner I dreamed I flung him full force against the wall once! I guess he had really been annoying me. He got hold of my sisters finger one night and would not let go! He was vicious!

My stupid ex husband brought a parrot once. It snipped off a bit of his finger, and he danced around in pain for quite sometime. A really wise bird! Selling parrots is against the law here. They belong to the wild and they are supposed to live in the wild. This silly fellow should have known it before he bought it from a man on the roadside. Besides, the parrots wings were clipped so that it could not fly. I took care of it till it grew its wings and let it escape. I felt sorry for the bird. It did not like me, but I could understand why it did not like me although I got frustrated at that time. And my stupid ex husband also caught a poor little love bird once. I don't know where he caught it, but he wanted me to cage it and "take care" of it. I let the little fellow escape, watched him fly to a bush outside, sit on the branch and sing for a while before he flew off and disappeared. I don't mind birds coming to me for a bit of something to eat, but they should be free. I don't believe in putting them in a cage and keeping them as pets. Why, I even used to feel sorry for my poor chickens. Even today, I can't eat chicken. Cheers!!

I do not like keeping birds as pets either, unless it was like I said and they could come and go of their own volition. The same as my other pets.

Well, my bird left scars on two people's faces and almost took my sister's finger off, so you might want to rethink that, hehehehe. Of course all parrots are not as unfriendly as he was, I think he was very p!ssed off at being taken out of the jungle! I know I would be!!! Plus, my brother said he had been abused. I would not want to have a parrot again unless it would be able to fly free and visit me when it wanted a free meal or something, or just wanted to say hi, hehehe.

I would never have another one either, unless I lived in the tropics where it could go or stay as it chose. They are very messy. I had a couple of finches once. My bf had made them a HUGE 6 ft tall and 6ft in diameter cage which we kept out on the balcony of our condo in Florida. We put a ficus tree in there and they made themselves a nest in it. Then one evening my boyfriend forgot to close the door of the cage after he fed them and I came out just in time to see them hop off the ledge and fly away. It broke my heart to watch their little bird bodies disappear into the horizon. I could not bring myself to close their door and my bf laughed at me for harboring the hope that they would return one day. The next morning I was awakened by finch song but I was so accustomed to it that I did not think anything about it at first, then it hit me!!!! I went racing out to the balcony and there they were hopping around on the floor of their cage eating dropped seeds!!! We named them Bill & Ted after that because we figured they had had an 'excellent adventure! Hehehehehe.

Why does that not surprise me??

I used to carry my Amazon up to the dirt bike track where I jogged every day. I would put him in the mulberry tree and let him climb around and eat mulberries. One day he was being a pain in the a$$ and refusing to come to me. I finally got tired of trying to coax him down and left him there. I went back the next morning figuring he'd be ready to come down now! Sure enough, he was. The next time that happened though, when I went out to get him the next morning he was gone... there was a pepsi can by the tree that had not been there before and the grass was all trampled. I figure what happened was a couple of kids were riding their bikes up to the track and he hollered "HELLLLOOO" down at them and they were hooked. Another time I had some finches that we kept in a huge 6X6 cage out on our balcony when we lived in Florida. We had a ficus tree in there and they even had a nest in the tree. One day my then boyfriend forgot to close the door on their cage and I walked out to the balcony just in time to see them fly off. I stood there and watched their little bodies disappear into the horizon. The next morning I awoke to finch song. It was so normal for me to hear that sound that it took me a minute to register that the finches were gone. I went out to the balcony feeling like I was in a dream or something, and there they were - hopping around the bottom of their cage looking for seeds! We named them Bill & Ted after that because we figured they had to have had an excellent adventure, hehehehe.