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joysweeper) wrote2006-06-04 03:17 pm
joysweeper) wrote2006-06-04 03:17 pm
Parrots.
Taking time out from this annoying Concrete Metaphor thing...
Couple days ago... hmm.... yeah, Friday the 2nd, I think- my dad went to get dry cleaning and, lacking something better to do, I went into PetsN'Things.
There were parrots in glass... thingies. Ack. I have to describe them.
See, at this particular pet shop, some parrots are kept in big cages. Others are kept in sort of aquariumlike things- glass sides, open tops, fine gravely floor. Set at a convenient height. Easy enough to reach in, if you're an employee.
Anyway, there were numerous birds there. A big pinkish cockatoo was in one, a pair of macaws were in another, and there were some slightly smaller birds that I didn't see.
I was looking them over- I like parrots- when one of the macaws _auuked_ loudly. So I went over to look at them, saying aloud, "One of you is gonna scream and scare me, I just know it."
They didn't.
The sign read something like "Baby blue-and-yellow macaws, hand-raised." The two of them were certainly sleek and handsome fellows.
Or ladies. I can't tell.
Anyway, they hopped down off the wood in the tank and made their awkward-looking way over. They both perched on the edges of their feeding bowls and just looked at me.
I crouched to bring them to eye level so I could look at them. One of the birds dinked its glossy black beak on the glass and I saw that knobby black parrot tongue. I told it that I knew it wanted to bite me, didn't it. They tilted their heads.
Parrots have eyes on the sides of their heads, but they can still look straight forwards. These two had pretty grayish eyes. Is that a youngness thing or a parrot thing?
Other than the dinking, they were silent.
They followed my hands on the other side of the glass and dinked their beaks at me some more, and we did a lot of staring, before my dad came back and I left.
I know that, being hand-raised, the macaws just wanted to bite me or get fed or climb around or something. But the cockatoo was also hand-fed, and it ignored me completely.
I'll never be able to keep one, but I like parrots.
Whooo, that's only too much procrastination. Get back to work, lazy!
Couple days ago... hmm.... yeah, Friday the 2nd, I think- my dad went to get dry cleaning and, lacking something better to do, I went into PetsN'Things.
There were parrots in glass... thingies. Ack. I have to describe them.
See, at this particular pet shop, some parrots are kept in big cages. Others are kept in sort of aquariumlike things- glass sides, open tops, fine gravely floor. Set at a convenient height. Easy enough to reach in, if you're an employee.
Anyway, there were numerous birds there. A big pinkish cockatoo was in one, a pair of macaws were in another, and there were some slightly smaller birds that I didn't see.
I was looking them over- I like parrots- when one of the macaws _auuked_ loudly. So I went over to look at them, saying aloud, "One of you is gonna scream and scare me, I just know it."
They didn't.
The sign read something like "Baby blue-and-yellow macaws, hand-raised." The two of them were certainly sleek and handsome fellows.
Or ladies. I can't tell.
Anyway, they hopped down off the wood in the tank and made their awkward-looking way over. They both perched on the edges of their feeding bowls and just looked at me.
I crouched to bring them to eye level so I could look at them. One of the birds dinked its glossy black beak on the glass and I saw that knobby black parrot tongue. I told it that I knew it wanted to bite me, didn't it. They tilted their heads.
Parrots have eyes on the sides of their heads, but they can still look straight forwards. These two had pretty grayish eyes. Is that a youngness thing or a parrot thing?
Other than the dinking, they were silent.
They followed my hands on the other side of the glass and dinked their beaks at me some more, and we did a lot of staring, before my dad came back and I left.
I know that, being hand-raised, the macaws just wanted to bite me or get fed or climb around or something. But the cockatoo was also hand-fed, and it ignored me completely.
I'll never be able to keep one, but I like parrots.
Whooo, that's only too much procrastination. Get back to work, lazy!