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August 22, 2008
Polly wants to be potty-trained
I was fooling around on my computer a little while ago, when I found this old picture I took on my cellphone. Maybe I posted this, maybe I didn't. But I feel bad for these people, who clearly lost a beloved pet parrot. I wonder if they ever found him?
I'm most interested in the part at the bottom: it says the parrot was wearing a diaper. A diaper? What kind of bird wears a diaper? I'm well aware that birds pretty much go where they please, but that is why they're kept in cages. Is it possible to potty train a bird? (Survey says... Yes!)
I would think, though, that a bird in a diaper would feel kind of emasculated. Pooping where they please is quite possibly the most distinctive feature of birds, be they pigeons, geese, urban or rural. Birds poop everywhere; it's their great joy in life. You may as well tell them they can't fly. The sad thing is, now that this parrot is out and about in the wild, he probably shed the diaper and is leaving a white trail of dung all over Chicagoland.
I hope they found him!
entry no. 1200
Posted at August 22, 2008 03:41 PM