agile not-a-cat - P.A.G.A.N. - People Against Goodness And Normalcy

This bloke is not a cat but he is agile. Or something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBnHIZKVQkM

I love those Cockatoos.

Do you have them in the US?

They're sold as exotic pets in the US, but I've never seen one. They don't live in the wild here.

I can see the attraction because they are pretty intelligent or seemingly so.

But they can be real pests. My missus had a patch of sunflowers. Beautiful things they were, about 6 foot high. Bloody sulphur-crested cockatoos snipped all the flowers off the stalks, just below the flower. Didn't eat them or anything, just snipped them. Bastards of things they are. The missus was never tempted to try the sunflowers again. How sad is that.

This sort of thing is not at all uncommon.

[image] gorgeous plumage

[image] comb splayed

evil bastards is what they are, in disguise :)

Oh. And the sound! Loudest screechers on the planet. Do not be woken up by a flock of cockies. Total cacophony.

They are just gorgeous birds but I would be so pissed if they did that to my flowers. I used to grow Dinnerplate Dahlias which have huge flowers. I tried everything to protect them, but the deer loved to eat them so I stopped growing them. One year I grew strawberries. The birds love them too, so I decided to put up bird netting to protect them. Well that didn't work. The birds ate all the strawberries anyway, except one, and got stuck in the netting. It was hard getting them free from the netting and they were none too happy with the process.

I don't know people live with huge birds like that in their homes. I'd love seeing them in the wild but not in my home. The noise would drive me crazy.

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