Ask Gandalf

Q&A With a Wise Old Bird

Well, here I am an authority on everything.  I have three questions that were submitted to my email so here goes: 

Q: How do you feel about Sun Conures?  I know one who is young, single and would molt all over the place if she thought it would interest you.

Best Regards, Ms. Conure

Gandalf:  Dear Ms. Conure,  Sun Conures are 'cousins' to me so we really can't have a relationship.  I sure do like young, single girls though.  However, molting is not a pretty thing, so please don't use that to get a boyfriend.

Q:  Nuts, I love nuts and hate that outer covering they have.  My stupid human keeps giving me nuts that still has the shell on them.  I pick them up expecting something good because she is acting like she is eating it, but when I get it - NOOOO!  

How should I train her to shell them first?  I have tried throwing, dropping and ignoring her, but none of that works, she is too hard-headed to understand our superior language.

Casey

Gandalf:  Dear Casey:

Good luck on training your humans.  It is a full time job!

It sounds as if you have tried most of the ideas for getting your slave to crack the shells.  What i did to finally get the message  across was just not to eat them.  If your slave wants you to eat them so much then in desperation he/she will crack them for you.  Hold out, don't give in....you can do it.

Dear Gandalf: Back in the eighties I was neighbors with a school teacher in Ras Tanura Saudi Arabia who had a Greater Silver Crest named Gandalf who had a pretty impressive vocabulary.Your not by chance the same Gandalf are you?

Gary Ellisor @ Random Flights

Dear Mr. Ellisor:

I am a blue and gold macaw....always have been and always will be.  It's the best you know.

I do have a pretty impressive vocabulary but I don't use it  much.  What my slave doesn't know is that I understand whatever she says and boy could I blackmail her if I wanted.

So long until next month.  Send your questions to wiseoldbird@yahoo.com for next month.  I love all this power!

Bye for now.... Arrrrrrr

P.S.  Questions are printed just as they are received and I don't correct any typos or grammatical errors because I don't have to.

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