what--you've never heard of "pecking order?"

We got our second cockatiel when friends of ours ended up with unepected baby cockatiels. Of the four who survived, they kept one and gave the other three away. We got one, and another family we know got another. We usually bird-sit for each other during vacations. And the two brothers just go crazy as soon as they're close enough to hear each other. They definitely show a preference for hanging out with each other instead of our other tiel, who doesn't seem particularly excited about the guest.

My boys adored eachother. Sob.

What I want to know is why my body rejects my hair. I can have a cat hair on me and not notice it. Even on the inside of my clothes. But the second it's one of my hairs it itches and bugs me until I fish it out.

I understand they are two very different textures, but it makes no sense for my own hair to itch like buggery, given that some of it will fall out every day.

Could be the dye. ;)

Nope, I don't let my cats dye their hair...

Consequently, they won't let you lick your hair ... hence your problem.

:sniff: No, Dylan used to try to groom me, Diz doesn't.
So if I hadn't lost my lovely cat, I'd have cat spit hair, but at least I wouldn't have hairs itching down my top.

Aaah. My puppy gets to visit it's old family from time to time, and definitely prefers their company to other dogs. She gets so excited.

Yes I do think birds have preferences, especially in their choice of mates. I have seen some male birds get ridiculous after being selected as a mate. I am not going to go into the details of the "honey I'm home" nest interaction, but yea, I think birds do have preferences. These preferences are usually based on instinct and practical needs.

There are some peculiarities that I can't figure out though, and why it would be instinctual or practical like:
Did you know that some (male) birds steal nest materials to build up a better nest, to attract the initial nest owner's mate? oh yea. They get wicked. And sometimes it works!

Why not pick a female bird without a mate instead of attracting the neighbors wife, and stealing a portion of his house to do it? Odd. Birds are odd. The more I find out about them the more seriously disturbed I get.

"Your birdy wife is leaving you for me." "And I stole your kitchen and garage." Sucker!!

It's good old evolution again.
She was good enough for him, therefore she must be fertile.
That nest was good enough to get a fertile mate, therefore if I have a bit of it, it will improve my chances.

Or maybe it's just good old peer pressure - if she already has a mate she must be hawt...

The mag-pies around here seem to hang out with my cows, if they crossed would they be called cow-pies? :p

i haven't read any of the above. why do we have to qualify questions as dumb? maybe they aren't dumb maybe they are just borned wrong.

Beacause everyone else knows the answers, and I am the dumb ass that doesn't.
:)

I'm not so smart, as to not qualify my questions, with the word dumb.

There are no dumb questions, only dumb people.

Say, over in the make-up thread (I only clicked on it because I thought it said make out) people are talking about a "cutter", which seems to be something like a goth/druggie/loser/emo/skank/bogan etc etc. What exactly is a cutter?

someone who self harms?

In "Breaking Away" a cutter was a person who worked in the local quarry, cutting slabs from the rock. There was tension between the cutters and the college community.

But in the thread in question, a cutter is clearly someone who is trying to go directly to the front of the line ("queue" for you crazy foreign types) without waiting like everyone else.

Or maybe it's someone who cuts themselves for any number of psychological reasons, but I don't see what that has to do with goth/druggie/loser/emo/skank/bogan types.