Feb 18, 2012: Owlet being fed

sandypossum · 02-21-2012, 12:49 AM

We once rescued a baby magpie (the swoop-and-remove-your-eye Australian kind, not the twee nick-your-baubles European kind) and fed it bits of meat with chopsticks. It would grab the meat and deftly flick it straight back into your face. Ungrateful beastie.

glatt · 02-21-2012, 08:15 AM

We rescued a baby robin once when I was a wee lad, but it didn't want to eat the grass we were giving it, so it died after a day or so. Oops.

You would think my parents would have known better.

richlevy · 02-23-2012, 09:59 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

We rescued a baby robin once when I was a wee lad, but it didn't want to eat the grass we were giving it, so it died after a day or so. Oops.

You would think my parents would have known better.

Nah, they were quite successful feeding you only grass until you left for college, so of course they thought it would work for birds.

BigV · 02-21-2012, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by sandypossum

We once rescued a baby magpie (the swoop-and-remove-your-eye Australian kind, not the twee nick-your-baubles European kind) and fed it bits of meat with chopsticks. It would grab the meat and deftly flick it straight back into your face. Ungrateful beastie.

As you would return a dish to the kitchen served uncooked, unprepared. You were being told, in the only way he knew how, to chew it and puke it before serving it.

FTR, I love the adjective "twee". Thanks!

footfootfoot · 02-21-2012, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by sandypossum

We once rescued a baby magpie (the swoop-and-remove-your-eye Australian kind, not the twee nick-your-baubles European kind) and fed it bits of meat with chopsticks. It would grab the meat and deftly flick it straight back into your face. Ungrateful beastie.

You're supposed to chew it up and vomit it into their mouths for them.

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Originally Posted by BigV

As you would return a dish to the kitchen served uncooked, unprepared. You were being told, in the only way he knew how, to chew it and puke it before serving it.

FTR, I love the adjective "twee". Thanks!

Oh. never mind. V got here first. and agreed about the use of twee in that sentence.

Nirvana · 02-23-2012, 09:18 PM

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02-21-2012, 12:49 AM	#1
sandypossum tri-continental dag hag Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 247	We once rescued a baby magpie (the swoop-and-remove-your-eye Australian kind, not the twee nick-your-baubles European kind) and fed it bits of meat with chopsticks. It would grab the meat and deftly flick it straight back into your face. Ungrateful beastie. __________________ you're never too old to have a happy childhood

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02-21-2012, 08:15 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	We rescued a baby robin once when I was a wee lad, but it didn't want to eat the grass we were giving it, so it died after a day or so. Oops. You would think my parents would have known better.

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