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Conference 7.286::pet_birds

Title:Captive Breeding for Conservation--and FUN!
Notice:INTROS 6.X / FOR SALE 13.X / Buying a Bird 900.*
Moderator:VIDEO::PULSIFER
Created:Mon Oct 10 1988
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:942
Total number of notes:6016

36.0. "A "Little" off track..." by ZEKE::HUTCHINS (Feathered Obsessions Aviary) Mon Oct 31 1988 15:57

    Hey Karen....
    
    did you ever get rid of those fur balls???
    
    J  ;^}
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36.1You mean feather balls don't you?CSC32::K_WORKMANNo Dukes!Mon Oct 31 1988 18:0815
    Shush...........   Can't let that cat out of the bag!  You meant
    feather balls didn't you?  Our local fur dresser dipped the whole
    lot of them in some type of conditioner!
    
    As a side note:
    
    Some of our furniture has some hair on it.... Now I know this sounds
    like I am a bad housekeeper but I am not.  I just have 4 cats and
    its hard to vacuum daily.  The question here is that my birds will
    sit on the furniture with me.  Would it hurt a bird to swallow kitty
    or puppy type hair?  
    
    Please don't laugh at me.  I really do try to keep my house hair-free!
    
    Karen
36.2HA, HA, HA, HA!!!ZEKE::HUTCHINSFeathered Obsessions AviaryMon Oct 31 1988 19:409
    Me laugh!  Ha!  You oughta see my house!  I just hired a maid service!
    I pulled the house a part -- cleaning up before she came!!!
    
    I don't think the fur should create a problem...as long as there
    are no parasites or oil....when my sheltie sheds, I give some of
    her hair to the canaries to nest with!!!
    
    j   ;'}
    
36.3Doggie fur nestNYFS01::CHERYLCheryl McGintyTue Nov 01 1988 10:347
    My finches love to nest with my lhasa apso's hair.  It's just like
    the stuff you buy for them to nest with.  And their nests look so
    nice -- all colors of dryer lint (I don't use fabric softener) and
    white hair.......now if I could only get them to stop throwing seed!
    
    cheryl
    
36.4Dryer lint an yarn...carefulFREKE::HUTCHINSFeathered Obsessions AviaryTue Nov 01 1988 14:5310
    A vet friend of mine once told me to stop wasting money by getting
    commercial nesting hair..."use your dryer lint..." I did.  Neither
    one of us thought about the polyester fibers though...some of the
    polyester fibers worked themselves around the foot of a good breeding
    zebra hen, and it atrophied...she lost her little foot!  No foot,
    no percing, no breeding, no more little babies.
    
    Just a word to the wise...don't find out like we did!
    
    j
36.5All cotton birds' nestNYFS01::CHERYLCheryl McGintyTue Nov 01 1988 16:266
    OOOPS!  I guess I shoulda mentioned that I only use the dryer lint
    from cotton loads (most of the stuff I wear is cotton) and without
    fabric softener.  
    
    Cheryl  (who doesn't like nylon or polyester!)
    
36.6Try a bunny!CSC32::K_WORKMANNo Dukes!Tue Nov 01 1988 19:155
    Re: 3
    
    Buy some bunnies!  My birds can get seed clear across the room...
    But my bunnies, when allowed to roam around, eat it all!  It's great!
    A real little eco-system....
36.7Are We Related?FREKE::HUTCHINSFeathered Obsessions AviaryTue Nov 01 1988 19:576
    Karen, it looks more and more like your household is like mine!
    
    Don't you just love it?!?
    
    j
    
36.8We must be!CSC32::K_WORKMANNo Dukes!Wed Nov 02 1988 19:1334
    Some people are real funny about visiting someone that has a zoo
    for a house.  Well I say "DON'T BOTHER" (to come to visit then).
    My motto is that "ANIMALS ARE PEOPLE TOO!"  Maybe I should change
    my notes personal name YEAH...  YEAH.. I will do that.  The Dukakis
    thing is getting old...
    
    Anyway, when someone tells me a story of a bird being smuggled into
    the states by being strapped to the inside of a car door panel I
    run out and buy another bird!  I believe in the death penalty for
    people who have no regard for animal life and abuse them to death.
    I just don't understand why people can do such crimes.  
    
    Here in Colorado the Air Force decided that there where too many
    deer running around on their property.  These deer where near tame!
    They invited licensed hunters in the area to have a field day! 
    Well needless to say the protest started but to no avail.  Being
    rational doesn't mean that we are the smarter species!
    
    My cats are all "saved from death" cases, my bunnies where saved
    from being someones dinner and my birds, well... Alot of people
    think that birds are no-trouble pets.  When they find out that there
    is work involved and they get tired of it, they figure that since
    it has wings they can just let it fly away and it will be happy.
    Well I buy birds to potentially save them from this demise.  As
    soon as my husband and I get our house on 10 acres, well, expect
    the animal population to definately increase!
    
    Can I get off my rampage now?  Thanks.....
    
    PS..
    
    I like this note, its TRULY A "LITTLE" OFF TRACK...
    
    Sorry..
36.9That's Right, Off Track!FREKE::HUTCHINSFeathered Obsessions AviaryWed Nov 02 1988 19:598
    That's right, since this is "off track" we are having a controversy
    over the moose in New Hampshire.  Talk about a walking brick!  :')
    
    I think we should just leave them alone.  But that's just me...using
    my heart not my head, I don't want to use my head, or I'd have
    moose too!
    
    J
36.10Where are you?CSC32::K_WORKMANHand picked by Juan ValdezMon Dec 19 1988 12:545
    Jean....
    
    Are you here??
    
    Karen
36.11Here I am!!! 8^}SMURF::HORNERTue Dec 20 1988 18:3710
    Karen...
    
    I'm at ZKO3 at Spitbrook Rd. Nashua, NH!  DTN  381-0366.  I am sharing
    an account with Eileen Horner.  This is a nice engineering group!
    I think I could get used to it here!  'Cept, I am spoiled, and would
    really like to have my own account!!!   8^}
    
    But I'm back for another 4 weeks!  Yahoo!
    
    Jean  8^}