1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

yeah they are everywhere around here and Pasadena. Little green ones and they fly around in huge flocks and take up residence in local trees making a racket

she's really upset, apparently it was a baby one. Dex isn't winning any points with my wife lately lol.

 

They do that kinda stuff, parrots will learn to stay away though

 

yeah I told her it sucks but it's basically what any dog or especially an outdoor cat would do, given the chance.

 

It would have been devoured by my tuxedo cat in about 3 minutes. She wouldn't have seen anything.

 

I mean he wasn't shoving his head in every hole he could find in the snow yesterday for no reason, my dude was looking for critter snacks

 

Just the fleshy remains the cat would leave on the doorstep as a gift lol

 

Might wanna teach the wife how to get stuff out of a dogs mouth for a more urgent scenario in the future though, it's a good thing to know and you have to put away the fear of reaching in there and opening their jaw or grabbing the snout.

 

My girlfriends husky somehow managed to catch and unalive a cat in his kennel area this winter. Cornered it or something idk

 

yeah it's not easy to do with him, the hard part is catching him lol. I had to pull an avocado pit out of his mouth he found yesterday, he started digging a hole in the yard and found the pit buried a good 6" in the dirt. Probably pissed off whichever squirrel had stashed it away

 

yeah this is why we crate him when we leave the house without him lol. He's cornered our cats a few times.

 

Her dog lives outside, idk why the cat was in there, but it didn't make it out. There was like 2 feet of snow in there too so it took a couple trips out to find where he stashed it.

Last time I went out there were a couple a dead mice scattered around.

 

yaaaa if he already had it it was probably too late for an intervention anyways :/

 

i need a blanket fort made out of cases of beer

 

I’d like the same, but with stacks of small bills, please.

 

I'm just surprised he hasn't caught a squirrel yet with how many we have in our yard. Big oak tree in the neighbor's yard that hangs entirely over ours, which is why we usually find birds eggs and nests and stuff falling out of it. It's the official orgy spot for all our squirrels

 

Sounds similar to the parrots in SF https://www.kqed.org/news/11185731/where-did-the-wild-parrots-of-san-francisco-come-from

Actually that article talks about the Pasadena parrots too
"""
There are a number of theories. A commonly held belief is that the parrots were released by a woman who was having a psychotic break and subsequently burned down the pet store where they were housed. This is partially true. A pet store did burn down in Pasadena, but the woman was an employee of sound mind simply trying to save the birds. The parrots in San Francisco most likely weren't released from the fire in Pasadena.
"""

 

yeah between them and all the peacocks we get here in the spring you'd think this was Australia or something

apparently rich people brought peacocks over in the early 20th or late 19th century and the same thing happened, they escaped and populated the area. Now they're a protected species, you can't fuck with them (not that you'd want to, the males are uber aggressive)

 

He's back!

 

I don't even need a fort, I'd be happy with a shoebox full of 50s

 

Exactly! LOL