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Originally Posted by nekokami
I don't know if this is a vent or a rant... but my husband noticed some peculiar behavior on the part of Lillis, the Silly Bird (my cockatiel). As the Muffin Man put it, "Either Lillis has an itchy butt, or he's found the love of his life. Or something." After giving the protesting bird a bath in his nether regions and not noticing anything particularly untoward-looking there (but I admit I'd never bothered to inspect that part of his anatomy before), I did a bit of online research. Um. Yeah, he's bored in his cage, and amusing himself. It's spring here, which is the beginning of the mating season for cockatiels, and he's at just the right age for his hormones to be in full swing.
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I had a racoon growing up which is a whole set of stories on their own, but at a ranch I worked at for a summer, there was a caged racoon, fox and pair of coyotes (I hated that they were caged but anyway...). Mr. Racoon was very bored and very adolescent. he would watch me cleaning stalls and ummm self stimulate very vigorously. one of the times I went in to clean his cage he stole my bandanna and used that from then on much like a teenager uses a sock....