I haven't been feeling so hot the last few weeks, so I have been laying low. But I have been reading the forums.
I decided to go sit out on the back porch and take, "Chuckie" out to his playhouse in the trees. He has been hanging out there for years in the summer time. Chuckie is a Parrot.
After being out there for a while, I noticed an odd sound and looked at Chuckie, and thought I saw a stick hanging from the tree on his cage, but it was a snake.
I am not afraid of snakes, but not in the cage with Chuck.
I got out there just as soon as the rat snake tried to grab hold, and wrap around him. Chuck did his "War Cry" and I had my pruning shears as I was trying to get the door undone. They were all over that cage and when I got the door open, I wanted to grab the snake, but I was afraid he was choking Chuck, so I was afraid to snatch him, that Chuck might have hold of the side of the cage. So I was going to cut the SOB in two with my shears. That would have shut down his plan. They tumbled so fast that I was afraid that I would cut Chuck's leg off.
But Chuck must have shut down on him with his large hook bill. The snake could not get out of the cage fast enough. I would love to see the hole.
After it was over, he didn't seem upset. Not a scratch on him. I reached in to get him out and he "burped" like he just shotgunned a tall boy. He came in, took a nap and wanted to go right back out after he woke up. He started, "Let's go outside.'' I took him out there to see if he meant it, and he started harrassing the bluejays and the doves. He was a happy camper.
That incident won't happen again. I am going to fix him an aviary up close to the house. In the mean time, I will be right next to his cage when he is outdoors.
I want to find the snake and see if he has any puncture wounds around his face and body. Chuckie has locked down on me twice in the 14 years I have had him, when he was scared, and my fingers turned blue and felt like they were broke. But it takes a major scare for that to happen. He reacts that way just as we react when someone jumps out from behind us and grabs us. Mother nature takes over and he just has no time to think.
I need to post his picture.
And ya'll thought he was a dung beetle.
Chuckie
I decided to go sit out on the back porch and take, "Chuckie" out to his playhouse in the trees. He has been hanging out there for years in the summer time. Chuckie is a Parrot.
After being out there for a while, I noticed an odd sound and looked at Chuckie, and thought I saw a stick hanging from the tree on his cage, but it was a snake.
I am not afraid of snakes, but not in the cage with Chuck.
I got out there just as soon as the rat snake tried to grab hold, and wrap around him. Chuck did his "War Cry" and I had my pruning shears as I was trying to get the door undone. They were all over that cage and when I got the door open, I wanted to grab the snake, but I was afraid he was choking Chuck, so I was afraid to snatch him, that Chuck might have hold of the side of the cage. So I was going to cut the SOB in two with my shears. That would have shut down his plan. They tumbled so fast that I was afraid that I would cut Chuck's leg off.
But Chuck must have shut down on him with his large hook bill. The snake could not get out of the cage fast enough. I would love to see the hole.
After it was over, he didn't seem upset. Not a scratch on him. I reached in to get him out and he "burped" like he just shotgunned a tall boy. He came in, took a nap and wanted to go right back out after he woke up. He started, "Let's go outside.'' I took him out there to see if he meant it, and he started harrassing the bluejays and the doves. He was a happy camper.
That incident won't happen again. I am going to fix him an aviary up close to the house. In the mean time, I will be right next to his cage when he is outdoors.
I want to find the snake and see if he has any puncture wounds around his face and body. Chuckie has locked down on me twice in the 14 years I have had him, when he was scared, and my fingers turned blue and felt like they were broke. But it takes a major scare for that to happen. He reacts that way just as we react when someone jumps out from behind us and grabs us. Mother nature takes over and he just has no time to think.
I need to post his picture.
And ya'll thought he was a dung beetle.
Chuckie
