Archie is now head-scratchable and rubable

Ira7

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Donā€™t ask me if I did anything special or different. I just had him out of the cage for a very long time today...I had bought him a cool new toy in the morning...and all of a sudden...

I could rub his right cheek with my fingertip to his total delight, then his left, and a few seconds later...I could grab his entire damn head from both sides and give him a sailorsā€™ special full massage with what I imagine turned into a Happy Ending.

If I was a woman, this must be the same joy that one experiences when giving birth.
 
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Solid progress being made there! I always find the little spot between eye and beak to be a fave spot to scratch, but being a girl I have a few extra millimetres of fingernail which may make all the difference there!
 
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Solid progress being made there! I always find the little spot between eye and beak to be a fave spot to scratch, but being a girl I have a few extra millimetres of fingernail which may make all the difference there!

Well, a few hours later, and Archie changed his mind about the whole thing.

Weā€™ll see what happens later today!
 

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Donā€™t ask me if I did anything special or different. I just had him out of the cage for a very long time today...I had bought him a cool new toy in the morning...and all of a sudden...

I could rub his right cheek with my fingertip to his total delight, then his left, and a few seconds later...I could grab his entire damn head from both sides and give him a sailorsā€™ special full massage with what I imagine turned into a Happy Ending.

If I was a woman, this must be the same joy that one experiences when giving birth.


Haha NOPE. Iā€™ve given birth and Iā€™ve experienced the joy of my bestie-bird requesting (demanding) skritches. Birth is not that fun. Having the human that comes with it is great, but the birth-not so much.


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Donā€™t ask me if I did anything special or different. I just had him out of the cage for a very long time today...I had bought him a cool new toy in the morning...and all of a sudden...

I could rub his right cheek with my fingertip to his total delight, then his left, and a few seconds later...I could grab his entire damn head from both sides and give him a sailorsā€™ special full massage with what I imagine turned into a Happy Ending.

If I was a woman, this must be the same joy that one experiences when giving birth.


Haha NOPE. Iā€™ve given birth and Iā€™ve experienced the joy of my bestie-bird requesting (demanding) skritches. Birth is not that fun. Having the human that comes with it is great, but the birth-not so much.


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I apologize for the terrible analogy!

I was just so excited!
 

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Hahaha youā€™re forgiven. Trust me, I will never forget the first time Bumble came up and lowered her head in the direction of my thumb and waited. Sheer bliss.

Iā€™ll also never forget the first time my human child spontaneously told me she loved me. Itā€™s all good.


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