Note: Put Parrots in Cage Before Knitting

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Note to self: put parrots in cage before endeavoring to knit.

Oooo! Shiny sticks! Mom is playing with SHINY STICKS! Can I have one? Can I have one? Can I have one? GotItGotItGotItGotIt ESCAPE! Wheee! Mom is chasing me all over the house making loud noises! Fun! Let’s have more fun - there’s another SHINY!.. Fly away! Stand on top of bookcase waving shiny stick! Watch mom jump up and down and make noise! Throw shiny stick at mom! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! >cackle<

Can I play with the string now? Look - STRING! Oooo… this is gonna be FUN!

(I have THREE of these little monsters. And now I have to put that half-knitted sock back on the needles… No wonder it takes me six months to get a pair done…)

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Awww…I wanna see video! Or at least pictures. :smiley:

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They stole the camera, too.

The only reason I still have access to the computer is because they haven’t learned to find the YouTube bird videos on their own (yet).

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Whenever my wife is cussing at her knitting I comment “You know dear, we *could *get a cat to help you with that.” :smiley:

Parrots sound even more “fun”.

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This guy says it’s like dealing with a 3-year-old.

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Another use for cat videos.

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That was a great laugh. Thank you.:smiley:

I thought Mrs. Bitchin’ had it bad. She crochets blankets for the dogs…and they insist on laying on them WHILE she’s making them.:smack:

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Duely Noted.

Scribbles on note pad for later
-Don’t take up knitting
-Don’t adopt flying monsters

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I believe that’s known as “Quality Control”.

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And you still live? She’s either a saint or she has a good sense of humor. Or both.

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I can totally see the whole thing playing out in my mind’s eye. It’s hilarious, but I feel for you having to put socks back on the needle. Such a pain!

I’m thankful the worst thing my cat does when I’m knitting is lay on the pattern.

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what kind of birds do you have?

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So can I, 'cuz I’ve seen it. :frowning:

Pets, especially those we selected because they aren’t complete morons (though dogs, as God’s most moronic pets, are an exception), instinctively know what they have to do to drag our attention from something to them. Dogs just like fabric arts.

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My dog is perfect ( I lie alot)

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I dropped a ball-point pen into the dolphin tank once (circa 1982). (Yeah, I was a part-time dolphin trainer in Honolulu from 1980 to 1983.) One of the dolphins grabbed it and proceeded to play the same kind of keep-away game with me.

We had continuous flow of filtered sea water into the tank, with a large drain at the bottom of the tank that led back out to the harbor. Another game they were fond of was putting a frisbee over the drain so the tank would overflow. Then they swam at top speed around the tank, deliberately creating huge waves that sloshed over the edges. It was certainly deliberate, because they were perfectly able to swim at top speed without making waves.

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Conclusion: Dolphins are assholes. Just like the cockatiel I’ve mentioned who (Not “that.” Impersonal pronouns are left to creatures that are not inherently evil.) imitated the phone ringing so he could see me fall all over because I thought it was a possible job. Smart enough to stop doing it when I got a cell phone on vibrate. Casually reaching into my pocket wasn’t fun. He went back to watching Jerry Springer perched on my collie’s head, describing the action.

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Pics *and *video *and *good audio or it didn’t happen!

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Wait, they haven’t picked all the keys off of the keyboard yet? Lucky you. My son left his laptop open for about an hour while he went outside. When he returned, our green cheeked conures had plucked the entire top row of function keys off and were starting to work on the shift keys. They also chewed a gouge in the top of the scroll wheel on the mouse.

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Two cockatiels and a green cheek conure.

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I am really anal about covering the keyboard unless I’m actually using it. And closing the laptop. All remote controls are set down upside-down to make the keys less accessible.