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Brat Bird!

BrianB

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Nibbles, my GCC, has turned into a mechanical engineer. All 3 of the conures in my office share a play stand that sits on top of Jackie's cage. Yesterday I put some bolts and wing nuts on it to better support the play stand. I noticed the top of the cage was loose. When I looked into it, I discovered all the screws on the top of the cage were missing. Somehow this little brat has unscrewed 6 of them, and who knows what she did with them. She's a menace !
 

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The face of an evil genius! :D
 

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Nibbles! Stop nibbling those nasty nuts you naughty girl! :embarassed:
 

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Nah. . . . Just waiting for the next challenge.

(My $ are on her)
 

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Somehow this doesn't surprise me at all with a GCC. :shocking:
 

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What a cheeky monkey! GCC can find trouble in the most innocuous of places. :laugh:
 

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they keep us on our toes how boring life would be without our birds:laughing7:
 

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She has the look of a rascal...and she's very aware that she IS one...;)
 

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Rascal is better than brat bird. I hope your bird did not swallow the screws!
 

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I found one of the screw on the floor behind the cage. I haven't found the others yet. They might be in the vacuum by now. She hasn't been able to get the new screws out, but I put them in as tight as I could.

She's in a mood today. I put the three of them out on the play stand. Jackie doesn't like it when the other birds get too close, so he went back in his cage to take a nap. I'm sitting here at my desk and I hear two of them screaming at each other. I look up, and they are both sitting quietly with their eyes closed. I turn back to my computer and the screaming starts again - I look up and they are quiet. I turned on the camera on my phone and pointed it up without looking at them and Nibbles is going after Wasabi. When I look up, they freeze in place and close their eyes like they are sleeping. A blue crown and green cheek having a turf war. I told them to knock it off and they did. I look one minute and Nibbles is tearing apart a birdie bagel and Wasabi is cleaning himself. I look back and they are sitting together peacefully.

Wasabi is moving to a new cage today, so I'm sure there will be plenty of attitude later on.
 

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A cute menace...:xflove:
 

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Replace the Wing Nuts with Nyloc Nuts and the Screws with Button Head Cap Screws. There's nothing for them to get ahold of and even if they do get it to turn the Nyloc Nuts are self locking so they with just spin with the screw and not come off.
 

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I had to put Nibbles back in her cage. I gave Wasabi an almond to play with and he got the small end open and then shoved his beak inside to work on the nut. Nibbles started to pester him again, and hen I look up, he's hitting her over the head it.

My day started with the cat under my desk trying to throw up on the power strip my computer is plugged into. I have 4 new cages to move birds into and then move Wasabi. It's only 9am and I feel like I need a nap just to get things started.
 

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Sounds like a good stiff drink might be in order! :patrelax:
 
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