Who's letting all their cockatiels go?
A friend found a near-dying and harrassed by noisy minors cockatiel
in Paddington, Sydney, which I agreed to look after. I put posters
all over Paddington 5 ways advertising a found pet cockatiel. Within
days, I got about 6 different callers all of whom had lost a
cockatiel in the Paddington, Edgecliff, Rose Bay, Bondi Junction
area. None of which was the actual owner of this particular
cockatiel. Apparently they have a habit of just taking off. You can
have a very tame, human-bonded pet cockatiel that for years never
looked like trying to make a break for it, despite opportunity, until
one day it suddenly just takes the bolt through an open window. The
previously placid nature of the bird makes their owners complacent, I
guess, and escapes very frequent. The avian vet in Alexandria reckons
they get about 500 metres before running out of puff (and thence
eaten by a cat, raven or currawong).
The bird eventually went to a good home in Double Bay.
regs
scot
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