I have a seventeen year old wild caught Goffins cockatoo that came to us three years ago this month from a small privately owned and run parrot rescue. The name he came to us with was Houdini but we all call him 'Dini. Well when 'Dini first came to us he was a true headcase. He'd been abused for at least fourteen years that we know of and was so aggressive you touched him at your own risk, (In other words you DIDN'T touch him if you wanted to keep all your fingers!) well over the course of the last three years he's gone from a touch-me-not to a I-wanna-cuddle-on-your-chest-ALL-the-time-momma bird. If he's not trying to destroy the woodwork (Goffins are little saw mills with wings), or shred the curtains, he's chasing the puppy or dive bombing my husband or the two boys. He runs this house with an iron talon.

Aside from his normal cockatoo proclivities 'Dini has issues with human toes. For some unknown reason I've yet to fathom human toes are a battle cry for this bird. He sees toes and his battle orders are immediate and SCARY. Well when he first came to us he always stayed on or in his cage. So we never closed it. He was in our bedroom and didn't get into much because he wasn't sure enough of himself to be a COCKATOO. As time went by he became more and more friendly but still wasn't getting into much trouble. That all came to a shrieking (pun intended) halt one Saturday morning.

Jim (My husband) didn't have to go to work that day and we were all sleeping in. Image my horror when I was awakened by my husbands screams of pain. 'Dini had burrowed under the covers at the end of the bed, found Jim's right big toe and CHOMPED the heck out of it and wouldn't let go! A snapping turtle with wings under the covers of our bed for crying out loud. After that we started closing 'Dini's cage at night when we went to bed. :o))

E.A. Henson
Friday, January 28, 2005

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