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Cockatiel News & Information for 02-15-2005 

Cockatiel News from Yahoo.com

Cockatiel News from NewTrove

Sonya Kimbrell, Features editor
From: NewsTrove.com

"I usually close it quickly and pretend I didn't see it. When I moved to Vicksburg, I had two cats and a bird. I had cared for several kittens and cats, and I considered myself a pro at caring for animals. Little did I know of the nature of birds. Adopting a sun conure into a house with two cats wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done, but it was one of the most educational. Sun conures are beautiful parrots about the size of a cockatiel. They typically have brilliant yellow bodies with orange heads and wings in gradated shades of blue and green. He came into our lives when he was just five weeks old."

East Valley Tribune | Daily Arizona news for Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale
From: NewsTrove.com

"Mozell Bracken Mozell Bracken, 92, of Baker City, died Jan. 31, 2005, at her home with all of her six surviving children at her side. Her funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place St. Pastor Bill Cox of McEwen Bible Fellowship will officiate. Vault interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. There will be a reception afterward at Community Connection, 2810 Cedar St. Visitations will be until 7 o'clock tonight and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon Friday at the funeral home. Mozell was born at Marion, Ill., on Oct. 20, 1912, to John and Emma Douglas Strobel. She married Edward R. Bracken on Aug. 18, 1929, at Corning, Ark."

Photos spur stimulating dialogue
From: NewsTrove.com

"We're doing so because it is the only way to make sense of a survey - a discussion, really - in which more than 500 readers shared their views of what we should or should not publish. The Tribune survey was done in cooperation with a national survey of readers conducted by the Associated Press Managing Editors organization. We're placing the survey results in this section because it is more likely to be read by adults who are issue-driven and less likely to be seen by children. In our video age, still photographs remain the most powerful and potentially most controversial means of delivering the news."

Cockatiel Blogs from LiveJournal

cockytiel
From: www.livejournal.com

"Elvis has been really needy lately. Stephen and I haven't been home as often so I think that's what it is. I think Elvis is starting to feel his Spring fling. He very persistently *clears throat* tries to pleasure himself on my foot. He'll even try to rub on my shoes or on a pair of folded socks. I definitely have a bird with a foot fetish. He's been really screechy and just generally being a "cockytiel." He's getting plenty of sleep and I interact with him a lot. He's out and with me for several hours every day. He's showing nesting behavior like last season and it's driving me nuts! Anyone experiencing anything similar?"

cockytiel
From: www.livejournal.com

"I bought alot of beads (plastic beads, plastic star beads, wooden block beads) and some foam anima shapes to make into toys for Smeagol and Gollum. I got home in a good mood because I have the day to myself, the weather is warm and sunny and my walk was a lovely one.


Gollum is such a little sweetheart, but since we've only had him for two months and he is still in the baby stage, I find myself in that worrisome bird-mommy stage, gasping everytime he falls/flutters to the ground. He is such a little persistent twirp. His wings are clipped so he cannot fly, but ever since the first time we saw him at the store he has always been denial about it. He would waddle over to the food dish in the middle of his cage (on the bottom) get on the edge of the raised lip and JUMP to the edge of the cage.. over and over again.. giving silly little chirps and loving the attention we gave him. We loved him immediately. I think it's even more frustrating for him now, since we do not clip Smeagol's wings and he get to fly around and strut his stuff. Gollum always keeps trying, and he is oh so bad at it. His feathers always get so bent and broken and fruffled and he always scares the poop out of me because sometimes his fall is kinda far. He will be sitting on the highest perch in his cage, holding onto it and just start flapping his wings as hard as he can making a ruckus, eventually letting go and fluttering about until I hear the THUMP at the bottom of the cage. He really is a silly bird. He has learned though that whenever he falls and he is out on my shoulder or near by.. and then flutters to the ground.. that if he comes back to me I will pick him up. It's so cute, it's like birdy-fetch. He will fall.. flutter a little away.. and then waddle over and look up at me with the cutest expression on his face as if to say, "maybe next time". heh. If we don't pick him up right away he will find the tallest object to climb onto nearest where we are and sit ontop of it and look up at us chirping here and then. heh.

His vocalization of the world "Smeagol" is getting quite good now, though I'm constantly telling him... "nooo.. you're NOT smeagol your name is Gollum... GOLLUM.. GOLLUM" But it doesn't seem to be sticking. So now I have two birds that can say Smeagol, even though only one of them are named Smeagol. Heh. I think it's a grapevine effect.. if I teach Smeagol how to say Gollum, Gollum will eventually pick it up. hah. I'm sure the two have a connection, though they refuse to admit it. Whenever we are watching them they keep their distance from one another and get angry if one comes too close to the other, however on more than one occasion in the morning when I uncover their cage they are sitting side by side, and then when they notice I am there one will chase the other away. I'm not sure what to think about it.

I didn't feel like making toys right this instant, so instead I decided they could play with the toy components. I spilt them into a laundry basket and put them in. Smeagol seems to like monkeys just as much as I do, wheras Gollum seemed to favour the little elephants. Cu-ute!





~*AnNa*~"

Opinions please :)
From: www.livejournal.com

"I'm debating on whether or not I should seperate my birds. I have two tiels, one is about 6 the other will turn two in may. (I just realized that & got that proud parent feeling lol) My younger tiel is the boss in the cage and while they don't fight, she/he does push my older tiel around when it comes to perches and which food bowl he wants to eat out of. I plan on getting a larger cage, about 32' and was thinking of keeping my younger tiel in their current cage and just giving the older tiel the larger cage since she never really comes out & the other is out all day.

The reason I'd like to seperate them would be so maybe my older tiel feels more confident to play with any toy he'd like, and just relax without the other one telling him what to do. And I could also work on him to make him feel comfortable comming outside...I will most likely do the seperation, but what do you think?

Also, does Wayne of Waynes Parrot Stuff still make perches and what not? I just checked his ebay store but its empty, anyone have a link to his site? Thanks in advance :)"

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