Buttons (our weiro) and I just watched the following youtube of Snoopy and Woodstock, then we looked at each other, amazed. I could see her thinking – yes thinking – ‘wow, that’s just like us!’ Buttons definitely had an expression of incredulity in her eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTssF_NYusQ
Speaking of eyes, after watching the clip, she did this eye kiss thing with me; she puts her face up against mine, then stretches up until her eyes and mine are almost touching, then she sort of brushes my eyelashes with her little beak very gently. The first time she did this was a bit nerve-wracking because, even though it’s just a little beak, it’s still a beak!
Every morning, Buttons lets out a kind of wolf whistle sound until I open her cage and let her out. Then she does exactly what Woodstock does in the youtube; she flies to me, sometimes miscalculating the distance between her cage, at one end of the veranda, and my office, which is at the other end, and crash lands here and there en route. She’s getting really good at it now though – often she makes it all the way to my shoulder.
Like Snoopy, I sometimes tire of her attention – and the constant eye kisses – and put her back on top of her cage but she keeps coming back! Here she is sitting just outside my office, waiting for me to call her!
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