April 13, 2007: Cadbury cockatoo

Danac suggests this BBC item about a rather feisty cockatoo named Pippa.

Pippa's 17, and lives at the Nuneaton and Warwickshire Wildlife Sanctuary. One day they took her outside, where she saw those Cadbury Creme Eggs. She decided they were hers to protect, and for the last two weeks, that's what she's been doing.

According to the owner,

She's got so much character it's unbelievable. She hates men - we've had a builder in who had his neck bitten. We had to prise Pippa's beak off his neck.

When she attacks you, she attacks your ear lobe - she goes straight through them. We do free ear piercing here.

She's ever so comical - always has been.

It's always comical when a bird bites through your flesh! I'd be tempted to take one of those choccy eggs and eat it in front of her, the horror! The horror!

I bet she's delicious. Bird for dinner, chocolate eggs for dessert. Perfect.

Cockatoo Mole

Cockatoo Fritatta

Hmm. No chocolate tatoos on male organs here. pffft.

*moves along to new thread*

LabRat;333512 wrote:

Hmm. No chocolate tatoos on male organs here. pffft.

*moves along to new thread*

if you squint and turn your head sideways it might just work.

I wouldn't be worried about that bird. If I can choke a chicken, I can handle a cock or two.

*grins* very good.

Undertoad;333474 wrote:

It's always comical when a bird bites through your flesh! I'd be tempted to take one of those choccy eggs and eat it in front of her, the horror! The horror!

It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Colonel Walter E. Kurtz

littlenickyer;333477 wrote:

I bet she's delicious. Bird for dinner, chocolate eggs for dessert. Perfect.

The way to cook a cockatoo:
Ingredients:
1x medium to large cockatoo
1x medium onion
1x clove garlic
1x teaspoon thyme
1x medium sized rock
Salt and pepper to taste

Chop and fry garlic and onion in a dash of olive oil until browned.
Put all ingredients in a deep baking dish. Cover with water, and place lid on dish to ensure maximum tenderness.
Put in middle shelf of oven on medium heat.
Check contents every 15 minutes until rock soft.
Throw out cockatoo, and eat rock.

Serves 4.

How can [COLOR=DimGray][Imus][/COLOR] you people[COLOR=DimGray] [/Imus][/COLOR] even joke about eating cockatoo?!?!?

I'd use it as crab bait and have crab cakes instead.

Most aussie birds like chocolate

[FONT="Palatino Linotype"]I used to live in Nuneaton, and I can't recall ever seeing a wildlife Sanctuary! There was a nice quiet town, an ant-hill that was about 6 or 7 stories high, and a lovely quiet pub...? Well, never mind, just send me the cadbury's eggs as evidence and I'll believe it[/FONT]. :)

Has the cockatoo checked to see if the eggs are smaller or not?

Not a pet bird person.

Pet cockatoos have to be the meanest birds on the planet. I never thought a bird could have feelings of jealousy and hate, but I'm certain this species does and with a beak that can snap car keys in half (lucky I carried a spare) you had best keep fingers far, far away. The owner laughed while telling me a story of a "love bite" she received while handling the bird that, unfortunately, clamped down on the class ring on her finger and disfigured the round shape to an oval. She noted that having a vise grip around proved most helpful that day.

Fear these evil birds. :worried:

My friend's macaw has resized my jewelry a time or two.

Chocolate is poisonous to birds AFAIK (I've been given a list of things not to feed my friend's $2K bird, chocolate is at the top).

guess that cockatoo isn't going to be abusing people for much longer.

He's not eating the chocie....he's gonna hatch it.

Therefore, will live to the ripe old age of 125, like those blasted things do.

My Mum's swears like a trooper, its awesome what you can teach them to say.

DucksNuts;334014 wrote:

He's not eating the chocie....he's gonna hatch it.

Therefore, will live to the ripe old age of 125, like those blasted things do.

My Mum's swears like a trooper, its awesome what you can teach them to say.

You taught your Mum to swear? hehehe

You know - if a 17 YO cockatoo chomped on ME like some of these stories - it wouldn't make it to be a 18 YO cockatoo - BTW that holds true for dogs that bite too - won't stand for that stuff - they get ONE mistake

wolf;333953 wrote:

Chocolate is poisonous to birds AFAIK (I've been given a list of things not to feed my friend's $2K bird, chocolate is at the top).

Apparently, Alka Seltzer is bad as well. Rhoda and her evil friends apparently killed some seagulls in this manner back in the day.

sycamore;334362 wrote:

Apparently, Alka Seltzer is bad as well. Rhoda and her evil friends apparently killed some seagulls in this manner back in the day.

Apparently I knew one of her evil friends, because I heard this story too. This guy claimed the seagull exploded, and when we called bullshit he back-pedaled a bit on his story. Wonder if it's an urban legend?

Wonder if it's an urban legend?

Snopes says it is.

Based on what I've read, Alka Seltzer can possibly make a seagull sick and kill them, but not make them explode.