Beauty over personality? RE: choosing pets

[Maria Vaerewyck]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Dina Lerret" 
<bunniqula at ...> wrote:
>
> On 11/26/06, Dina Lerret <bunniqula at ...> wrote:
> 
> > I watched him trying to grab her crown feathers, so I had to 
split
> 
> > tried to pull Sammy's crown feathers and Pretty *definitely* 
doesn't
> 
> Late night realization... All the cockatiels love chewing/yanking 
on
> these *white* elastic strings (often found holding a pair of shoes
> together prior to purchase) that plastic and foamy toys were 
strung up
> on (Pretty loves creating knots and then untying them)... and Sammy
> has thin *white* crown feathers.  Pretty and Lucky have grey crown
> feathers. *facepalm*  No wonder they both tried pulling Sammy's 
crown
> feathers.  Well, shoot, I inadvertently may have screwed myself on
> that.
> 
> Dina
>

maria8162001:

Lol, but at least you solved the mystery, Pretty and Lucky were not 
jealous or nasty or annoyed at all with Sammy, they just thought she 
have those lovely toys they love to pull, lol. I heard cockatiels 
love to play tug of war, maybe you can teach or show  them how to 
play tug of war with each other, like give one end to the other bird 
and the other and of the string to the other one? If it's a string 
you can make a string with 3 ends and let them all pull each ends, 
and see who's going to win, they all love to win.You can use string 
or thin wood or anything they can hold their beak on. And maybe by 
doing so, they would learn to live in one cage together and play 
together(though I guess it would difficult for Sammy because of her 
tempting crown,lol). Just a thought. Cheers.