What has your cocky destroyed?

[Betrisher]

The other morning, I was trying to get Beloved out of bed with no success. I was teetering on the brink of pouring honey into his chest-wig (yes, I have done it before - more than once. And yes - it works a treat!) Suddenly, I thought 'I know what I'll do! I'll get Dommie in here. That'll get the old boy outta the sack in a hurry!'

So I did and it didn't.

Dommie did his level best by nestling under Beloved's beard and preening him. He even had a peck at a couple of skin tags. That only resulted in Beloved sighing profoundly and rolling over to his other side. Grrr!!!!

'Oh well', I thought, 'I'll just leave him there and see what transpires (NB. By now, Dom was perched on the bedhead, preening his own self and quite safe from rolling Leviathans).

A couple of hours later, Beloved emerged with Dommie on his finger and asking for a wet cloth. Dom had 'decorated' the bedhead and Beloved thought that was quite OK. Just a bit of minimal cleaning up would fix everything. He smirked at me as he bore Dommie back into his unholy lair.

Just this morning, though, Beloved became Belivid! It seems while Dom was ensconced on the bedhead, he'd reached over to the beside table and taken possession of Belivid's second-best pair of glasses. LOLOLOLOL! All of the plastic fittings are now gone (presumably inside Dominic, although there was considerable frass on the floor near the bed). The nose pieces were ripped off and the ear rests were nibbled completely away. The glasses are unusable. Hee! Heehee! Heeheeheeheeheeheee!

Don't worry. They were only el-cheapo 3x reading glasses from the dollar shop. If they'd been Belivid's prescription specs you'd have heard him bellowing from across the Specific Ocean. As it was, I thought the whole incident had a certain ring of poetic justice to it. Y'know?

 

[Beckyymayy]

My galah loves to fly onto our clothes stand when it's inside and chew off all out buttons and zippers off my families clothes.
And yesterday he jumped onto our kitchen bench and chewed all the herbs and threw the rest off the side of the bench.
His nearly a year old so his getting into everything at the moment.

 

[strudel]

The other morning, I was trying to get Beloved out of bed with no success.

So, I start reading, check your list of fids for "Beloved",keep reading, get to chest wig, wonder what sort of bird you are talking about.... THEN I twig that you're referring to a human.

 

[Scott]

Shirt buttons of course, but more crucially anything to secure a cage door or compartment closed. Locks, latches, anything with a spring, return mechanism, even jury-rigged nuts and bolts. One Goffin will patiently spin a nut dozens of times in the correct direction and finally toss the nut with disdain as he then removes the bolt!! I've watched as one cockatoo unlatches a seed dish door while another inside the cage happily shoves the dish to the ground and exits the path to freedom! C-clamps are necessary to prevent the typical mechanical latch from being rotated 180 degrees and slid open. And yes, they have "customized" door and window mouldings.....

 

[4dugnlee]

Well my U2 hasn't destroyed anything here yet...but it's still early...I'm sure it's coming. However, she did chew my friend's xbox cable in half, which is one of the reason's I have her now..lol.

 

[Kiwibird]

My dad's cockatoo had this cage once where the panels all "snapped" together. Well, the little devil-bird managed to pop the top panel off, escape and ransack the house when no one was home. Destroyed a weeks worth of mail, flung anything he physically could (pillows, decorations dirt out of houseplants ect...), went and let the amazons out of their cages... He even turned played on the stove, managed to turn on all the burners and then ripped off the knobs He's only a goffin (so not very big) but he is DESTRUCTIVE:16::16::16:

 

[Scott]

My dad's cockatoo had this cage once where the panels all "snapped" together. Well, the little devil-bird managed to pop the top panel off, escape and ransack the house when no one was home. Destroyed a weeks worth of mail, flung anything he physically could (pillows, decorations dirt out of houseplants ect...), went and let the amazons out of their cages... He even turned played on the stove, managed to turn on all the burners and then ripped off the knobs He's only a goffin (so not very big) but he is DESTRUCTIVE:16::16::16:

ROTFLMAO! Glad the stove lighting didn't create a horror!

Goffins are the cockatoo functional equivalent of macaws!!

 

[Phlox]

This thread is like cockatoo birth control.



I accidentally left Iris out all day last Saturday...she didn't do anything and was sleeping in her cage when I got home. A cockatoo would have eaten the world.

 

[Kiwibird]

ROTFLMAO! Glad the stove lighting didn't create a horror!

Goffins are the cockatoo functional equivalent of macaws!!

Thankfully, my parents have an electric stove so at worst he felt his feet warming up and flew off. Had they had a gas stove, that would have been BAD.

Oh, and his nighttime cage cover is more patches these days than the original fabric

This thread is like cockatoo birth control.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

I accidentally left Iris out all day last Saturday...she didn't do anything and was sleeping in her cage when I got home. A cockatoo would have eaten the world.

Yup, zons are usually rather well behaved when unattended (it's when we're watching that they sprout their horns:13. During Alfie's rampage, the zons were released. Neither of them left the top of their cages. They knew better than to join in the destruction:20:

 

[strudel]

escape and ransack the house when no one was home.

I guess I was lucky mine confined herself to that keyboard, then....

she didn't do anything

Have you looked carefully? That's what I thought, too.

hahaha at photo of the "arch-criminal" behind bars.

 

[getwozzy]

LOLOLOL

I've had to replace the shower curtain rings with cheap plastic ones that Chili doesn't seem to care about.... I originally bought "fancy" ones that matched the decor, and had little ball bearings to help them slide up and down the curtain rod- of which the little bearings were held on by a simple plastic cap *sigh* Chili had a hay-day nibbling them off one by one, and you can imagine my surprise as all those little bearings started raining down into the tub [emoji35] lol

 

[Betrisher]

ROTFL! Thank you Shirre. You've settled something for me. I was going to try out those natty little shower curtain rings with the ball bearings, but now, I don't think I will...

I used to have nice white plastic shower curtain rings, but the Beaks et them all. Shower curtain fell down. I got some more, thicker rings and the Beaks et those too. Shower curtain fell down. Now, I just buy bulk lots of the blessed things from China (on ebay) at about a dollar a dozen. I'm just about keeping up with the Beakies and their desire to see the family naked in the shower, but only just! Shower curtain hasn't falled down in a while, but I'm sure it will eventually. :22_yikes:

 

[getwozzy]

LOL!! Yeaaaah....don't buy the ones you want, buy the ones that'll stand up to beaks and are the least attractive (to them) haha

Your story about Dommie vs Kim's glasses made me think of the curtain rings -I still have the "nice" ones in the master bath, but the el cheapo ones are in the "guest" bath. They're a nice concept and looked great, but obviously have design flaws [emoji6]

 

[strudel]

and their desire to see the family naked in the shower,

See, where you're going wrong is not having the beaks IN the shower with you.

I put a swing on the curtain rail and if I put her up there, she just sits there, she doesn't climb off it. I hope she never realizes that she can.... It's quite good having a "sitting" bird rather than a gymnast.

 

[Betrisher]

Oh I have shower perch all right. The Beaks just don't like coming in the shower with me. I wish they would! It'd be so much easier than spraying my entire kitchen with water every time they have their bath. They get all excited about the shower and do the feather-fluffing, wing-spreading and tail-fanning thing. Then, when push comes to shove they carry on like a pair of pork chops when I go to gently put them near the spray. You'd honestly think I was spraying them with lava, the way they carry on! There's a ring swing hanging from the curtain rail, but they don't use it, preferring to sit on top of the louvre doors and chew the louvres (looks like we've had enormous beavers in the house). Y'can't win with Beakies. They are a Higher Intelligence.

 

[Kiwibird]

Oh I have shower perch all right. The Beaks just don't like coming in the shower with me. I wish they would! It'd be so much easier than spraying my entire kitchen with water every time they have their bath. They get all excited about the shower and do the feather-fluffing, wing-spreading and tail-fanning thing. Then, when push comes to shove they carry on like a pair of pork chops when I go to gently put them near the spray. You'd honestly think I was spraying them with lava, the way they carry on! There's a ring swing hanging from the curtain rail, but they don't use it, preferring to sit on top of the louvre doors and chew the louvres (looks like we've had enormous beavers in the house). Y'can't win with Beakies. They are a Higher Intelligence.

I just spit my water! I just can't imagine sweet Barney and Madge using their intelligence for evil:21:

 

[strudel]

My girl's "funny" about the shower. I am still getting to know her and her "ways". I've started putting her down in the bath (shower over bath). Up the end, she sticks ALL her feathers out and sticks her wings up in the air and stands like that. I thought she might move under the water, but she just stands up the end. Then I put her under the water and she just stands there, but with her wings down. She doesn't move about or anything. I'm not sure whether she likes it or not.... She could walk up the end out of the "rain" but she stays there, so I think she mustn't hate it. I'm not sure whether she likes it.

If I put her on the edge of the bath, she'll walk up and climb on the dirty clothes basket and try to eat that so I have to keep putting her back up the other end. It's like Dino off the Flintstones. She keeps going where she wants, she won't take "no" for an answer.

 

[Kimmied]

Oh where to begin... Mina has chewed the molding around every door and window in her bedroom. We have managed to watch her close enough when she is out so it does not happen elsewhere. She ripped and chewed her curtain. She ripped up her wallboard. So we rearranged her room. This is all she had to say for herself . Water was slopped all over the carpet so we had to get new. None of my night gowns have buttons they all have holes. I can't even begin to wear clothes around her or she LOVES to chew holes in my tops. Love really is blind. I don't really get mad, truth is I hardly see the damage at all.

 

[strudel]

ummm, she has her own ROOM?

 

[Kiwibird]

Kimmied- She looks like a naughty bird in that pic! Perhaps she would like some untreated wood 2x4s to chew up And I do think when it comes to our feathered companions love is often blind (deaf and dumb lolololol). Or at least it is for me and my bird:52: