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April 13, 2007: Cadbury cockatoo
Danac suggests this BBC item about a rather feisty cockatoo named Pippa.
Pippa's 17, and lives at the Nuneaton and Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary. One day they took her outside, where she saw those Cadbury Creme Eggs. She decided they were hers to protect, and for the last two weeks, that's what she's been doing.
According to the owner,
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She's got so much character it's unbelievable. She hates men - we've had a builder in who had his neck bitten. We had to prise Pippa's beak off his neck. When she attacks you, she attacks your ear lobe - she goes straight through them. We do free ear piercing here. She's ever so comical - always has been. |
littlenickyer Friday Apr 13 08:38 AM
I bet she's delicious. Bird for dinner, chocolate eggs for dessert. Perfect.
footfootfoot Friday Apr 13 09:23 AM
Cockatoo Mole
Clodfobble Friday Apr 13 09:27 AM
Cockatoo Fritatta
LabRat Friday Apr 13 09:47 AM
Hmm. No chocolate tatoos on male organs here. pffft.
*moves along to new thread*
littlenickyer Friday Apr 13 09:53 AM
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Originally Posted by LabRat
Hmm. No chocolate tatoos on male organs here. pffft.
*moves along to new thread* |
Sheldonrs Friday Apr 13 10:14 AM
I wouldn't be worried about that bird. If I can choke a chicken, I can handle a cock or two.
DanaC Friday Apr 13 10:30 AM
*grins* very good.
HungLikeJesus Friday Apr 13 11:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Undertoad
It's always comical when a bird bites through your flesh! I'd be tempted to take one of those choccy eggs and eat it in front of her, the horror! The horror!
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nil_orally Friday Apr 13 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted by littlenickyer
I bet she's delicious. Bird for dinner, chocolate eggs for dessert. Perfect.
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Ingredients:
1x medium to large cockatoo
1x medium onion
1x clove garlic
1x teaspoon thyme
1x medium sized rock
Salt and pepper to taste
Chop and fry garlic and onion in a dash of olive oil until browned.
Put all ingredients in a deep baking dish. Cover with water, and place lid on dish to ensure maximum tenderness.
Put in middle shelf of oven on medium heat.
Check contents every 15 minutes until rock soft.
Throw out cockatoo, and eat rock.
Serves 4.
Beestie Saturday Apr 14 12:43 AM
How can [Imus] you people [/Imus] even joke about eating cockatoo?!?!?
I'd use it as crab bait and have crab cakes instead.
Aliantha Saturday Apr 14 07:07 AM
Most aussie birds like chocolate
rbusch Saturday Apr 14 07:57 AM
I used to live in Nuneaton, and I can't recall ever seeing a wildlife Sanctuary! There was a nice quiet town, an ant-hill that was about 6 or 7 stories high, and a lovely quiet pub...? Well, never mind, just send me the cadbury's eggs as evidence and I'll believe it. 
Sperlock Saturday Apr 14 11:43 AM
Has the cockatoo checked to see if the eggs are smaller or not?
rkzenrage Sunday Apr 15 01:21 AM
Not a pet bird person.
Kitsune Sunday Apr 15 11:00 AM
Pet cockatoos have to be the meanest birds on the planet. I never thought a bird could have feelings of jealousy and hate, but I'm certain this species does and with a beak that can snap car keys in half (lucky I carried a spare) you had best keep fingers far, far away. The owner laughed while telling me a story of a "love bite" she received while handling the bird that, unfortunately, clamped down on the class ring on her finger and disfigured the round shape to an oval. She noted that having a vise grip around proved most helpful that day.
Fear these evil birds. 
wolf Sunday Apr 15 03:07 PM
My friend's macaw has resized my jewelry a time or two.
Chocolate is poisonous to birds AFAIK (I've been given a list of things not to feed my friend's $2K bird, chocolate is at the top).
littlenickyer Sunday Apr 15 03:34 PM
guess that cockatoo isn't going to be abusing people for much longer.
DucksNuts Sunday Apr 15 10:45 PM
He's not eating the chocie....he's gonna hatch it.
Therefore, will live to the ripe old age of 125, like those blasted things do.
My Mum's swears like a trooper, its awesome what you can teach them to say.
Sheldonrs Monday Apr 16 11:56 AM
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Originally Posted by DucksNuts
He's not eating the chocie....he's gonna hatch it.
Therefore, will live to the ripe old age of 125, like those blasted things do. My Mum's swears like a trooper, its awesome what you can teach them to say. |
CharlieG Tuesday Apr 17 12:05 PM
You know - if a 17 YO cockatoo chomped on ME like some of these stories - it wouldn't make it to be a 18 YO cockatoo - BTW that holds true for dogs that bite too - won't stand for that stuff - they get ONE mistake
elSicomoro Tuesday Apr 17 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by wolf
Chocolate is poisonous to birds AFAIK (I've been given a list of things not to feed my friend's $2K bird, chocolate is at the top).
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glatt Tuesday Apr 17 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by sycamore
Apparently, Alka Seltzer is bad as well. Rhoda and her evil friends apparently killed some seagulls in this manner back in the day.
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Shawnee123 Tuesday Apr 17 04:50 PM
| Wonder if it's an urban legend? |
elSicomoro Tuesday Apr 17 05:02 PM
Based on what I've read, Alka Seltzer can possibly make a seagull sick and kill them, but not make them explode.
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