Hence the rancour - Part 2.

 Even if I had succeeded in my pet hostility mission, my hubby(who is passionate about having pets, alike my kids), this time, got a pair of parrots for kids. 

Once again, our house was filled with bywords, YAY! Hurray! etc etc.....But akin to previous case, I wasn't a part of their celebration. 

Again, parrots are intelligent birds. They too have the ability to imitate human speech. So 'Mein Kampf', with teaching them to speak, was on going for my kids. I hadn't taken so much pain in teaching my kids to speak. And more so, my younger son himself wasn't able to speak many English words still, yet, he was trying to teach the parrots how to speak!

Guavas, chillies, tiny apples, pulses, now, had to take the inventory check on these, more than often.


Swing was made from scratch for them, in their lavish cage. Parrots have strong zygodacty feet(2 toes facing forward and 2 back) with sharp, elongated claws, which they use for swinging. They enjoyed the oscillations so much that they would end up spilling water and food, from the vibrations. Well, no need to let you know, that, the back office handling was obviously my job, yet again. 





Cleaning, washing, the stinky cage, bathing the dearies gently, making them take some sun bath later, Ahh! I, myself, hadn't visited a spa for years now. 

Feed them fresh fruits, watch out for cats, switch on AC for a while, all these instructions were disposed upon me, to follow earnestly, without any help.

Apples for FIL

Oranges and grapes for my sons

Strawberries for hubby 

Guavas for parrots

Paracetamol for me

That's how my shopping list looked like!


Why Paracetamol? Well, looking after all the boys (FIL, hubby, sons and parrots) at home, who wouldn't get a headache? 

All boys? Well, yes! that's another story.....They say parrots don't show sexual dimorphism, so you really can't say which one is a female and which is the male, unless you are an ornithologist. What happened with us was a big Dhokha too. The parrots bought in as a pair(couple) were actually both male species. And like every other male species, they ought to fight and show who's one up! Male parrots weren't any different, they started showing off their masculinity by fluttering their wings aggressively at each other. Eventually, pricking one another with their beaks and injuring, when nobody was around. 

Ultimately, we found one of them dead, early in the morning, on not-so-fine day. The other one was injured and bleeding too. Kids were sad, broken-hearted. We burried it in the courtyard. And dressed the wounds and bid our farewell to the remaining one.

The rancour just got stronger now!

But, again did I stick to my resolution of not having pets? Janane ke liye..stay tuned...



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