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We call them Ringneck Parrots here in Sa. And if the ring around the neck is nice and dark it is a male. Rhe females rings are much lighter.
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I kept an eye out for him while I went around opening the tortoise sheds, but no Adam!
Thank you for that. I was two hours drive away. Where I was it did rain quite a bit on friday night. Not sure how much it rained in Cape Town itself though. But heard from other people commenting that it wasn't very much. BUT the report was that it missed Cape Town but did rain in Cape Towns carchment area for the dams about 8mm.
Lol.[emoji23]I've had several budgies! I REALLY enjoy them and typically let them fly around the house a bit.
When I was a child we let our budgie fly around the house. it used to like landing on my mother's head and plucking out hairs, one by one! It wouldn't do this to any else- just Mom!!!! She wouldn't tolerate it much...can't imagine why!
One day it was one of our birthdays, and the cake was all decorated and sitting in the center of the dining room table. The budgie was out flying around, and when I went to put him in his cage, he had some sort of odd blue stuff on his toes. It wiped off easily but I couldn't figure out what it was. When we saw the birdie footprints through the icing on the birthday cake, we knew!!!(We ate the cake anyway, of course.)
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Is that Clunker? He is looking good.
Oh what a horrible and at the same time beautiful story. You are a good man.We were invited to a friend's house for a meal in the Eid al-Adha, the big festival in Muslim countries, sort of culturally the big thing like Christmas or Thanksgiving in other places.
While there we noticed one of the small children playing with a tortoise, twisting one of each of its front and back limbs in opposite directions.
wifey said how horrible this was and I remarked it was just a rubber toy, but it wasn't.
The children used this tiny tort and another (Tidgy) as toy cars, pushing them around and crashing them head first into each other to simulate car crashes.
The adults kicked them out of the way as they walked past.
They were fed on meat scraps, fat and tomato and roamed the house looking for somewhere to hide away from the pain and bright lights.
Tidgy had had one on her scutes cut out to make a pretty necklace and had a hole in her oozing yellow, bits of bone and lung covering could be seen under a thin yellow membrane.
When we were leaving i said i wanted these tortoises.
In the culture, you kind of have to say yes if someone asks for something or even admires it a lot.
They gave us Tidgy, but the other tort was owned by the father of another child and wasn't there so we couldn't take the other one.
It was dead in a few days.
I took Tidgy home, wifey making up the name from Tgg (sort of Tidgy) Testudo graeca graeca, i stopped at the Cyber cafe to research on the way back and Tidgy weakly tried to crawl away from me terrified.
i spent hours a day with her, washing her wounds, speaking gently to her, trying to get her to eat, until about eight days later she finally started to come out of her shell, eat and fight to survive. She decided it was a good place and wanted to live. Life's good.
She used to scream silently, mouth open and stretching her neck out full and to one-side, i'm certain she had damage to the neck, but eventually she recovered, the hole scabbed and a couple of years later the scab fell off leaving the rough black scute that doesn't match the others that she has to this day.
And i fell in love with her.
Is that trick photography and if not then Wow.Some just climb them
Yes. The big eyes are because he thought I was going to let him eat my phone[emoji57]
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Thank goodness for that.Good morning, Raqib!
Good morning, roommates!
We’re getting ready to go to a party. Fastelavn is a carnival that takes place before Lent, and traditionally the central activity involved putting a black cat into a barrel, then trying to break the barrel by hitting it. (Medieval Europe, say goodbye to cats. Say hello to the plague
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Good morning, Lena!We’re getting ready to go to a party. Fastelavn is a carnival that takes place before Lent, and traditionally the central activity involved putting a black cat into a barrel, then trying to break the barrel by hitting it. (Medieval Europe, say goodbye to cats. Say hello to the plague
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But I thought you were a chameleonGood morning, Roommates.
Because of the long hours I keep, I have been accused on the Fossil Forum of being a vampire.
Hmmmmmmmm.
No no no no no no and just once more in case you did not hear the first on NO...waking me up please. I like my sleep.
