Look at me! I'm an attention whore!

[christopher575]

Look at me! I'm an attention whore!, originally uploaded by christopher575.

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[scearley.livejournal.com]

he's just being "typical wacky" portland. Cuz you know, Portland's filled with all kinds of trying-to-be interesting people who think that a person is made up of what they buy.

[notlostonme.livejournal.com]

Go sock that fucker in the face for me and remind him that it is too cold for a cockatoo to be outside now.

[scearley.livejournal.com]

portland, seattle, whatevs. Tobie's got my brain set to portland.

[vurumai.livejournal.com]

Don't have a personality? Get a bird

[vurumai.livejournal.com]

Portlanders use African Grays. Cockatoos are so over

[transairn.livejournal.com]

I have 4 birds (rescues)...but only because the previous owners treated them like shit.

[transairn.livejournal.com]

Hey cool photo!

I'm glad to see this guy takes his cockatoo outside; I've volunteered at bird rescue operations where birds are caged up for >99% of their lives because they weren't trained to be social outside of their cages like this nice looking cockatoo.

I wish I could take my cockatoo outside more often, but for the first 15 years of her life before I got her, she wasn't brought out of her cage...and now she is bonded to me and most-likely would bite someone who reaches out to pet her.

And yeah when I have taken her out in public, it's impossible to be inconspicuous. They like to be on high perches because they LOVE to see everything that's going on, so shoulders are perfect.

Still, I would never ever support buying an exotic bird or breeding them for any reason. Birds like this have a long way to go before they are domesticated like puppies and kitties. There are thousands of big birds like this that end up being abused/killed/abandoned because stupid people don't realise that these birds don't belong in North America.

Or that birds don't belong in cages; they have wings for a fucking reason. :-)

[transairn.livejournal.com]

Nawh, birds (like dogs), if brought up in a certain climate, can easily live and survive outside. Depends on the bird and depends on the climate.

There are a few big rescue ops on the West coast that have outside housing for cockatoos/cockatiels/coniers/macaws. But yeah , if it gets below freezing then keep them inside! :-)

[vurumai.livejournal.com]

I think I was referencing part of a stand-up routine but I can't remember who it was for the life of me now.

[transairn.livejournal.com]

Yah I can't remember either. Wanda S maybe.?

[vurumai.livejournal.com]

QUICK! To the Youtubes!

agreed

[cattycritic.livejournal.com]

I don't think people generally should be allowed to keep parrots and parrot-like birds; they're all wild and really smart and they live a really long time, and most people have no fucking clue how to care for them or aren't up to the decades of commitment it requires. They belong with other birds of their own kind; that's where they're happiest. I mean some of these birds live into their 80s for pete's sake.

We have a lot of small flocks of conures around the Bay Area that are all descended from escaped pets. We don't have harsh winters here, but it can get around freezing sometimes. They've learned how to huddle and circulate at night the way penguins do.