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| BettyI |
My mother's lovebird has begun constantly biting a much smaller parakeet on
the beak. These two birds share the same cage. The poor parakeet spends
much of the time head-first in it's little nest.
Does anyone have any suggestions regarding why and how to stop this
behavior?
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| GOOD GOLLY MISS mOLLY |
"BettyI" <simon87654@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1f3f8a5a4fa2be192a046e588bdfd499@localhost.talkaboutpets.com...
> My mother's lovebird has begun constantly biting a much smaller parakeet
on
> the beak. These two birds share the same cage. The poor parakeet spends
> much of the time head-first in it's little nest.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions regarding why and how to stop this
> behavior?
>
Jesus christ why don't people do some research? Lovebirds must not be put
with any other birds. Take the parakeet out immediately before the lovebird
tears its face off and kill it.
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| owly |
If they aren't separated the lovebird will kill the budgie (I assume that's
the kind of parakeet to which you are referring?). And when lovebirds kill
other birds, it isn't pretty. They usually go for the eyes first...
In short your answer is that you can't stop this behavior. The lovebird is
only doing what lovebirds do.
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"BettyI" <simon87654@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1f3f8a5a4fa2be192a046e588bdfd499@localhost.talkaboutpets.com...
> My mother's lovebird has begun constantly biting a much smaller parakeet
on
> the beak. These two birds share the same cage. The poor parakeet spends
> much of the time head-first in it's little nest.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions regarding why and how to stop this
> behavior?
>
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| AlanWilliams |
"BettyI" <simon87654@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1f3f8a5a4fa2be192a046e588bdfd499@localhost.talkaboutpets.com...
> My mother's lovebird has begun constantly biting a much smaller parakeet
on
> the beak. These two birds share the same cage. The poor parakeet spends
> much of the time head-first in it's little nest.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions regarding why and how to stop this
> behavior?
As other people have said, you can't stop it. The lovebird will kill the
budgie (if it's lucky by a quick skull crush) or maim it so badly (eyes
pecked out, beak removed, all toes bitten off) that you and it will wish it
was dead. The lovebird hasn't gone "rogue"; it is just being a lovebird.
Their name is very misleading.
Alan
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| Starlight |
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:15:45 -0400, "BettyI" <simon87654@aol.com>
wrote:
>My mother's lovebird has begun constantly biting a much smaller parakeet on
>the beak. These two birds share the same cage. The poor parakeet spends
>much of the time head-first in it's little nest.
>
You have to be a troll. I can't believe anyone would leave a bird
that was being tortured in the same cage with the torturing bird. No
one could be that ignorant.
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| XXXXgizzieXXXX |
"owly" <> wrote
>The lovebird is only doing what lovebirds do.
Serious question---
How the hell do you suppose they ever got the name "love" birds??
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| GOOD GOLLY MISS mOLLY |
"XXXXgizzieXXXX" <xxgizziexx@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "owly" <> wrote
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> >The lovebird is only doing what lovebirds do.
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> Serious question---
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> How the hell do you suppose they ever got the name "love" birds??
Cos they love biting other birdies toes and beaks off??
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| waitingforgodot@samuel.beckett |
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 19:12:41 GMT, "XXXXgizzieXXXX"
<xxgizziexx@comcast.net> wrote:
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><(((*> "owly" <> wrote
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><(((*> >The lovebird is only doing what lovebirds do.
><(((*>
><(((*> Serious question---
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><(((*> How the hell do you suppose they ever got the name "love" birds??
An ornithologist with a sense of irony?
Tara J. Ballance
Montreal, Canada
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| Guido |
The "MoFo" is a trill.
"Starlight" <homehealth_rnDELETE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 11:15:45 -0400, "BettyI" <simon87654@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>>My mother's lovebird has begun constantly biting a much smaller parakeet
>>on
>>the beak. These two birds share the same cage. The poor parakeet spends
>>much of the time head-first in it's little nest.
>>
>
> You have to be a troll. I can't believe anyone would leave a bird
> that was being tortured in the same cage with the torturing bird. No
> one could be that ignorant.
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| AlanWilliams |
"XXXXgizzieXXXX" <xxgizziexx@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "owly" <> wrote
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> >The lovebird is only doing what lovebirds do.
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> Serious question---
>
> How the hell do you suppose they ever got the name "love" birds??
Well when they pair off, the couples spend a lot of their time preening each
other, nestling up against each other and regurgitating for (which I guess
looks like French kissing) each other. Of course, the rest of the time
they'll be fighting with other couples or with each other :-)
IMO a lot of problems are caused because when two lovebirds meet they often
seem to have a play fight. Any bird that didn't respond correctly or which
didn't back down and fly away if the fight became serious (e.g. if it's of
another species, is in the same cage, or in one of my lovebird's case is IMO
retarded) would be in for a possibly terminal mauling. In any fight a
lovebird will have a huge advantage because they are brilliantly acrobatic
fliers and are programmed to attack the most vulnerable points; they are
quite capable of killing a bird many times their size with no injury to
themselves. IIRC in Hitchcock's "The Birds" it's caged lovebirds who seem
to trigger everything off.
> --
> XXXXXXgizzieXXXXXX
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| owly |
HA! I sure wish I knew the answer to that question :). It's definitely a
misnomer, ain't it!
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"XXXXgizzieXXXX" <xxgizziexx@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "owly" <> wrote
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> >The lovebird is only doing what lovebirds do.
>
> Serious question---
>
> How the hell do you suppose they ever got the name "love" birds??
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> --
> XXXXXXgizzieXXXXXX
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> "There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy
> licking your face." Ben Williams
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| GOOD GOLLY MISS mOLLY |
"BettyI" <simon87654@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1f3f8a5a4fa2be192a046e588bdfd499@localhost.talkaboutpets.com...
> My mother's lovebird has begun constantly biting a much smaller parakeet
on
> the beak. These two birds share the same cage. The poor parakeet spends
> much of the time head-first in it's little nest.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions regarding why and how to stop this
> behavior?
>
Seeing as how the OP has not responded to any of the posts I have to assume
that he is a troll or that the parakeet is now dead.
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| XXXXgizzieXXXX |
"owly" <> wrote
> HA! I sure wish I knew the answer to that question :). It's
definitely a
> misnomer, ain't it!
A friend of mine crossed a Peach Face with a Blask Mask, the babies
were adorable
and meaner than cat ****. If you put your hand in the cage, they'd
attack and lay the back of your hand open just as quick and neat as a
scalpel. In the flight cage, they'd go for your face. We were
terrified of them. We called them the Flying Razor Blades.
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XXXXXXgizzieXXXXXX
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"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy
licking your face." Ben Williams
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| James Mayer |
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 17:07:11 GMT, "XXXXgizzieXXXX"
<xxgizziexx@comcast.net> wrote:
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>"owly" <> wrote
>> HA! I sure wish I knew the answer to that question :). It's
>definitely a
>> misnomer, ain't it!
>
> A friend of mine crossed a Peach Face with a Blask Mask, the babies
>were adorable
>and meaner than cat ****. If you put your hand in the cage, they'd
>attack and lay the back of your hand open just as quick and neat as a
>scalpel. In the flight cage, they'd go for your face. We were
>terrified of them. We called them the Flying Razor Blades.
>
>
Were they hand fed as chicks?
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| Schmuckputz |
"XXXXgizzieXXXX" <xxgizziexx@comcast.net> wrote in message news:3lnZc.218842$8_6.73679@attbi_s04...
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> A friend of mine crossed a Peach Face with a Blask Mask, the babies
> were adorable
> and meaner than cat ****. If you put your hand in the cage, they'd
> attack and lay the back of your hand open just as quick and neat as a
> scalpel. In the flight cage, they'd go for your face. We were
> terrified of them. We called them the Flying Razor Blades.
Interesting. In one of the "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies, there's a scene where a lovebird kills
its cagemate then starts to fly around the room and attack people in the fashion you described. I
thought he was supposed to be possessed by Freddy Krueger, but from what I understand now he was
just being himself. Do they burst into flames after their rampages too?
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| Grainne Gillespie |
>Does anyone have any suggestions regarding why and how to >stop this
>behavior?
Seperate the birds
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| Grainne Gillespie |
> How the hell do you suppose they ever got the name "love" birds??
If a group of lovebirds are left together, they gradually pair off with each
other. They form very strong pair bonds and if one of a pair dies, it has
been known for the remaining bird to pine away and die of a broken heart.
This is why they're called love birds, b/c of the strong pair bond a pair of
birds can develop
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| Grainne Gillespie |
>A friend of mine crossed a Peach Face with a Blask Mask, the >babies
>were adorable
>and meaner than cat ****.
So, I take it you encountered vicious cat ****, I didn't know it could
attack people
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| ex WGS Hamm |
"Grainne Gillespie" <demonique@eircom.net> wrote in message
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> >A friend of mine crossed a Peach Face with a Blask Mask, the >babies
> >were adorable
> >and meaner than cat ****.
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> So, I take it you encountered vicious cat ****, I didn't know it could
> attack people
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It does too. It leaps out of the litter tray and latches onto your bare
toes in the dark. I know cos I have 10 cats.
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I haven't been on this list for a long time, so I don't know if this was
said, but a lovebird can kill a parakeet. Separate them before its too late.
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| Digital_Cowboy |
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> I haven't been on this list for a long time, so I don't know if this was
> said, but a lovebird can kill a parakeet. Separate them before its too
> late.
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Hell, a Lovebird can kill a 'Tiel as well. Animal Planet's Animal Cops had
a segment where an elderly gentelman had
three flocks of birds 'Tiels, Lovebirds, and 'Keets. The Lovebird's had
chewed the upper mandible off of a LOT of the
'Keets.
I very rarely IF ever let my 'Tiel and Lovebird out at the same time
because I know from the few times that I've had
them out at the same time that the Lovebird WILL attack or make aggresive
moves towards my 'Tiel.
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| owly |
We get one of our lovebirds out with the 3 cockatiels, one of the pionus,
and both greencheeks; the lovey stays to herself and doesn't bother anybody
but if she were forced into a smaller area with them - especially the
tiels - we couldn't leave them out together. As it is, they all have plenty
of space and if somebirdy gets on somebirdy else's nerves, they just fly off
elsewhere. The lovey is seriously outnumbered, and the other birds are all
better flyers than she and she knows it :).
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