lissie Vir used to love to drive me nuts by either throwing her droppings at me if she was pissed off or by forced the air purifier on my desk to go to max and start blowing papers all over. I’m pretty sure that I gave her the exasperated reaction she wanted the first time she did that, but after a while, I noticed it kept happening every time the little tyrant was mad.
Which meant I was obligated to give her the reaction she was looking for, despite finding the torment absolutely hilarious.
Kosh also has moments where he just revels in the petty. Piss him off and he’ll make a point of calling you to watch him so you can see how deliberately he drops a toy behind a piece of furniture, because he knows you’ll have to crawl to get it out. And laughter is one of those things he does in context. He’ll legit start laughing if he throws a toy behind something in petty revenge. Or, if he’s in his cage, he’ll call you over “Come here! Come here! Pleaaaaaase. Are you coming?”
When you finally get there, he’ll give me Budgie Butt: which is the act of shoving his little feathered ass in your face to show you his complete and utter disdain. Kosh, over the years, has elevated Budgie Butt to a form of art.
But, lately, I’ve gotten in the habit of taking Adira into the other room so she can both get used to the movement as well as bonding a little with Kim. She struggles with it and there are moments she genuinely panics, so I will quickly hunch over so, if she falls, she’ll fall only a foot or so.
So. I was bringing Adira back in here when we paused to say hi to Kosh. Kosh, who isn’t really interested in other birds, just looked her over before going back to what he was doing before. But Adira? She started panicking again. So, I lowered her closer to the ground.
And she fell.
As she falls, Kosh rushes to the front of the cage, his little head cocked to watch her. Oh, I think. How -sweet-! He’s worried about her. And then I heard it — a loud and very joyous
“HEHEHEHEHEHE!”
I bend to pick Adira up and then the little brat laughs again!
By this time, I started laughing so hard that I was tearing up and poor Adira, who hasn’t learned what a laugh means, was just confused like. Wait. What’s going on?
Poor Adira!
