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Despite the high prevalence of large featherless waitresses in the food service industry today, they can be remarkably tough to train. For starters, getting distracted by “cuteness” is a known hazard of the species. Also, featherless beings tend to get overly hampered by their own outmoded customs when it comes to fine dining. For instance,ContinueContinue reading “Day 130: Cockatiel Knows It’s In the Bowl”

The super-competitive annual nesting season isn’t for amateurs. Ladybirds have very high standards, and they expect their suitors to bring their A-game on every level, from nest selection to victuals choices to personal style. For this reason, you want to make a fashion-forward first impression, which as every worthy candidate knows always begins with aContinueContinue reading “Day 124: Cockatiel Is Damp & Dapper”

When your reputation as .007, pint-sized super spy, precedes you, you can count on getting called in to consult on some pretty strange cases. Since every one of these cases is unique, often you have no precedent to refer to – just your own gut instinct to guide your recommendations. This also applies to theContinueContinue reading “Day 118: Cockatiel Discovers Mystery Muffin”

Training a large featherless waitress can feel like a long (oh so long) and uphill road. You may have to send your order back once, more than once or many times before she finally gets it right. But when she does at last master a lesson, you want to be sure to let her knowContinueContinue reading “Day 115: Cockatiel Trains Large Featherless Waitress”

As all feathered beings know, every snack tastes better with sound effects! Unfortunately, the large featherless beings tend to be somewhat unimaginative in this area, so it often falls to the feathered flock member to instruct flock mates in the art of multi-sensory dining. For example, let’s say your personal Small Chef has selected aContinueContinue reading “Day 109: The Cockatiel & the Crinkly, Crackly, Bobbly Bag”

When you are dining with your flock, it is important to make sure everyone in the flock knows and follows the proper dining protocol. The “alpha” flock member always gets to dine first. Always. No exceptions. Ever. If you are unsure which flock member is the alpha, just look for the member with the mostContinueContinue reading “Day 106: Cockatiel Explains Flock Dining Protocol”

Fully furnished nests are a rarity in the world of feathered beings, especially as the spring nesting season really gets underway. If you want to find the best real estate, you need to start your scouting early. But occasionally, even late in the game, a true gem might suddenly appear. When this happens, you wantContinueContinue reading “Day 100: Cockatiel Digs Into Tortilla Chips for Two”

If you live in a flock where you have many flock mates yet only one rectangular shiny device with the crispy keys, sometimes you have to get creative about claiming your turn. Rather than whine about how your large featherless flock mate is monopolizing the device yet again, you can challenge yourself to find anotherContinueContinue reading “Day 97: Cockatiel Claims One Found Mouse”