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Parrots are very giving and generous. Whatever they have, they want to share it. If they love you, they want to share it even more….and share even more of it. This means that once you welcome a being with feathers into your life, every day is like your birthday. You will get surprise presents justContinueContinue reading “Presents from Parrots: Nest Building”

As every talented top secret agent knows, there are many different types of cases that need solving. Some cases are “open and shut” (every agent likes these kind). Other cases can be “hot,” “warm” or “cold” depending on the amount of evidence and how compelling it is. But then there are those cases that are,ContinueContinue reading “Thursday Thriller: Pearl Cutts in “Invisible Millet””

Every parrot knows it is important to have grandbirdparents. First of all, if you think your large featherless assistant is a pushover for feathers, wait until you meet her flock elders! These beings, known as “grandparents” when parenting other featherless beings, also make the best grandbirdparents. Grandbirdparents love to pamper and spoil their grandbirds. TheyContinueContinue reading “Pearl Explains Parrots: Grandbirdparents”

Feeling grateful is a skill every being is born with. But you can also practice this skill and become even better at remembering and feeling gratitude. Beings who practice feeling grateful a lot are so sunny and fun to spend time with that everyone wants to be near them. (This is why you often seeContinueContinue reading “Tuesday Gratefuls: Pearl & Shannon Share”

Featherless beings, generally speaking, don’t look forward to Mondays. Feathered beings, on the other hand, are perfectly happy when another Monday rolls around. For this (and many other) reasons, featherless beings often choose to add beings with feathers to their close family flock. This is a very wise choice, of course. Once you add aContinueContinue reading “Monday Happys: Good Company”

Parrots are very giving and generous. Whatever they have, they want to share it. If they love you, they want to share it even more….and share even more of it. This means that once you welcome a being with feathers into your life, every day is like your birthday. You will get surprise presents justContinueContinue reading “Presents from Parrots: Socializing”

A big part of being successful as an actor is remaining open to the unexpected. Oddly, the same principle holds true for the best “black-ops” secret agents. In fact, often the two roles can even seem to overlap, as so much about both winning new fans and busting bad guys boils down to simple serendipity.ContinueContinue reading “Thursday Thriller: Pearl Cutts in “The Empty Metal Spaceship””

Being a part of a flock means always being on the lookout for snacks. If you are hungry, chances are good some or all of your flock mates are hungry too. Here, when you find a delicacy you want to share, of course….just as soon as you have ingested as much of the snack asContinueContinue reading “Pearl Explains Parrots: Snack Scouting”

Gratitude is like a “stealth day brightener” that is always on the prowl for beings who need cheering up. Often, it seems like gratitude must have feathers, because of its ability to glide up to you so silently and then – kabam! – it whops you with its little gratitude wand and you instantly feelContinueContinue reading “Tuesday Gratefuls: Pearl & Shannon Share”

It is no secret that, between feathered beings and featherless beings, the beings without feathers have a lot more trouble getting out of bed. On any day of the week, it might require one or several sessions of “shrieking” for a feathered being to rouse his large featherless assistant. On a Monday, even with extraContinueContinue reading “Monday Happys: Bird Breakfast”