A Peek at the Enemy...

I've told you about my war with "the bird", right? If not, then let me expound. This big red-feathered monstrosity has been increasingly winning more time with my human-pet every day. They go on walks together. He manipulates treats from her all day and all night--even off her own dinner plate! This just won't do.

My pet thinks I'm being too dramatic, so just to prove that I'm the better guy, I snuck her phone and recorded this video. To get the fullest effect of what I have to deal with, you should turn your volume all the way up (just kidding--he may blow your speakers!)



I'd never be so loud and crazy. And my human-pet thinks it's cute? She even starts yacking back at him, like she can talk his nonsense half-English/half-Squawkish language! The bird has bewitched her. She's lucky I'm around to provide some normal, quiet moments to the day.

So, if you were curious how it is to live with a macaw in the house,
there you have it.

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Putting Mr. Sparky Straight

I wasn't going to eat Mr. Sparky--I just wanted to talk to him. So, as soon as my human-pet finished the normal ritual of moving the terrarium lighting and taking off the screen in order to give me my collard greens today, I seized the opportunity.

And she thought I never noticed the green reptile-hammock she hung up in the corner of the tank. HA! I noticed it--and today, it came in handy. As soon as the screen was off and my pet turned her back, I leaped onto the hammock, using it to scurry to the top of the tank, and then jumped out, aiming straight for the TV.

Of course I landed it--I'm an excellent jumper. But the TV wasn't my end goal. Mr. Sparky's tank is on the shelf over the TV, and he and I needed to talk.



I've seen the look in his eyes when the birds are near--I know he fears them, and I'm not about to let those feather-heads bully the fish into taking their side in this war!

So yah, I took a few striking licks right at his wiggling, yummy-looking fins, but it was for his own good! He'll think twice before committing mutiny now. Even glass can't protect traitors forever.

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The Deadly Firefly!

My human-pet does a lot of reading on the internet... and I mean a LOT. Today, however, she told me something a bit scary.

I'm not allowed to eat fireflies. She says if I even eat one, it will kill me within minutes! ??? Wow.

So, apparently, these little, shiny, fascinating, looks-so-delicious bugs have a steroid chemical in them that makes their butts glow... or whatever it does. Either way, this steroid stimulates the heart, and the highest concentration found on earth of it is in a firefly. So, if i eat it, i'll die of an over-dose.

She read that lots of bearded dragons die every year from it because their pets are dumb (she didn't say 'dumb', of course, but that's what it sounded like to me). She says that local birds and stuff won't eat the fireflies because they inherently know not to.

But since bearded dragons are native to Australia (and apparently don't have any mean bugs over there that fight back like that), we don't know any better to not eat them. Then she gave me 'that look' and told me that I'd eat just about anything, without question. When I argued the point, she said she'd prove it by offering a shiny red fruit that i've never seen before...

Well, of course i ate the fruit! I can't help it. Everything looks so yummy!

Sigh.

So, no fireflies. I'll try to remember, but I guess I'll have to depend on my pet to keep all of that straight for me. If you want to read what she read, click here to go see the article.




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