 My fellow sniffers, my name is Marlene McCohen, and this is Picasso, my mustache parakeet, and we would like to welcome you to Storytime Sunday. Just in case you were wondering what a sniffer is, Picasso is my best sniff. If you have a bird, you probably already are a closet sniffer, but if you're new to the bird world, that is okay. Just go and smell your bird right now. And if you can smell him like right on the nostril, and if you can get the delicacy, which is when he breathes out, you breathe in. I know I'm insane, but I feel like we do have to go over this. Then you have got like the delicacy sniff. It's like the sniff that used to work really hard to get. Other than that, they just smell good all the time. Picasso smells like baby powder and the best flowers in the world. Picasso, are you going to stay with me today throughout this video? I have this weird feeling Picasso is going to fly away, but today's video is actually, today's video is about a mustache parakeet, but not Picasso, which is probably why he's flying away. Today's video is going to be about my mustache parakeet Malibu. That was my first mustache parakeet ever. Picasso is my second. Picasso probably knows that the story is not about him because he might have heard when I was setting up and he's just like, I'm out. You probably know that I've never had to bribe Picasso before to be in my videos. Usually he just sits very quietly, but today I am bribing him with a Q tip. It's a very nice and easy toy in case you want to keep your bird busy on a whim. If you watch my last week's parrot tip Tuesday video on makeshift toys, this is another great makeshift toy. But before we get to the story of the day, let's do our engage not cage feature. Today's bird is going to be a gorgeous bird. It is turquoise turkey. This is a beautiful bird named Cosmo. He's a conure. He's so gorgeous. Just look at his pictures and how the colors stand out. I love it. This bird has caught my attention on multiple occasions. For those of you wondering how to get your bird featured on this channel, hashtag engage not caged on Instagram and follow me at Marlene McCohen and also you should follow engage not cage the page. I love how you guys are so great at posting your birds. I'm obsessed with them. They are so cute. And then what's really great about Instagram is I can go to your profile and check out all the other photos of your birds. So give it up for this gorgeous conure Cosmo. His beautiful, beautiful bird and his companion is quite pretty herself with her beautiful purple hair. Yeah, I saw that. I like that. That was really cool. Right before that, by the way, I had went into my sister's room and said, I think I want my hair to be blue. And she was like, uh, yeah, your red phase didn't get you over that. And I'm like, no, I want blue. But that's a whole different story. Let's move on to today's story about Malibu, the mustache parakeet. Don't leave. Don't leave. I hope that doesn't make you angry. If you guys remember the story of how I got my first African grade, George, you'll remember that I got that bird with a roommate. My roommate and I put our money together to get a bird. But before that, I had a mustache parakeet named Malibu. And Malibu was my sidekick. He didn't like to be pet or head scratched, but he wanted to be with me all the time. He was incredibly entertaining, super busy bird, love to fly. I just love this bird. He had such a great personality. He also talked a lot. He said, hello, and pretty bird and a few other things. One day, my roommate decided to get her own cockatiel and this cockatiel was a really cute bird. She had moved out. So she asked me to babysit the cockatiel. Obviously she was having parrot withdrawals when she moved out and she really wanted a bird. So she went and got her own little bird. And of course, when people know me, who do you think they asked to babysit their bird? Well, me. Well, my Malibu was not taking this very well. He wouldn't let the bird sit next to him. He wouldn't interact with the bird. He didn't want to share his toys with the bird. And he was overall just very jealous, kind of like how Picasso is right now with Cody. Aren't you like that with Cody right now? Which is very surprising because Picasso is such a welcoming bird. But Picasso likes to have like his one best friend. And right now that is Jersey. So he's really just not interested in Cody. So Malibu was behaving like that towards this bird. I don't remember this bird's name, but it was a really sweet bird. We had to find a temporary spot for the bird. I lived in an apartment and Malibu already had his whole cage set up. So I had this idea. Let's give this bird a name. By the way, how about Bambi? I don't know why that's just such a cute name. Someone better named their bird Bambi because now I think that is the cutest name. So we decided to put Bambi's cage because I had another roommate at the time. We decided to put Bambi's cage kind of next to the counter. So there was a counter that was into the kitchen, but I put the cage in the living room close to the counter. The next day, I find out that at the bottom of Bambi's cage, there's a whole bunch of pennies. And I'm thinking of myself, did Bambi come out and pull pennies from somewhere and bring them in his cage? I couldn't figure it out. And I'm looking at the bottom of Bambi's cage and I'm like, okay, who in their right mind would give a bird a bunch of pennies? And clearly they keep giving the bird the pennies because the bird is dropping them on the bottom of their cage. The bird can't get them anymore because they're below the bars. So I decided that I'm going to keep my eye on the bird. But of course, I can't focus on the bird all day long. I let the bird out. And I noticed that there's like a little dish of coins, you know, spare change that when you come home, you have in your pocket, it's been emptied out into this little dish. So I'm thinking that Bambi is going to go over and play with the coins. And I'm excited because I want to see Bambi play with the coins. I think that would be so cute. Like is Bambi bringing them to the cage to collect them? The first thing in my head that I thought of was this bird that basically stole a whole bunch of quarters from an ATM machine and put them in his nest. So I was thinking maybe Bambi has a thing for pennies and just loves that maybe Bambi loves the colors of the pennies. This is really exciting. Here Bambi, here's the penny dish. What do you want to do with it? Do you want to play with the pennies? Bambi goes nowhere near the pennies. I'm like, hmm, here Bambi, here's the penny. You want to hold it? No. Bambi's not interested in the pennies. What? How come this bird is not interested in these pennies at all? I bring them all out. I line them up. I think Bambi wants to play with them. No such luck. In fact, my bird starts walking over Malibu and starts looking at the pennies and kind of throwing them around and playing with them. And I'm like, oh, okay. Malibu likes the pennies, but this explains nothing to me. So another day goes by. I've taken all of the pennies out of Bambi's cage. I'm not going to leave them there. I don't know what Bambi's going to do with them. And we're starting afresh. I wake up the next day and I go to class. I come home in the afternoon and there's a ton of pennies in Bambi's cage. I haven't been home. Where is Bambi getting these pennies from? This makes no sense to me. About an hour later, my roommate walks in the door, the current roommate, not the one that I was babysitting her bird. And he goes, Hey, Marlene, have you seen what Malibu's been doing? And I'm like, no. He goes, come look at this. And he shows me all the pennies at the bottom of Bambi's cage. I'm like, I know these pennies. What is happening here? He's like, Malibu's doing that. I'm like, Malibu's not doing that. Malibu plays with the pennies. I saw Malibu play with the pennies. He's like, no. When I let Malibu out today, because my roommate was very accustomed to the birds and loved playing with the birds, he would have his breakfast with Malibu and things and hang out and really relax and chill with Malibu. He said, when I let Malibu out today, every time I turned around, I would hear clink. He said, I was wondering, what is this noise? It sounded like a penny. But I couldn't see that Malibu had dropped any pennies. And I'm like, okay. So then he tells me he hid himself to see what the noise was because it was driving him insane. He suddenly heard like a penny fall, but there was none on the floor. Because you have to imagine he was like inside the kitchen, then there's the counter and then Bambi's cage was outside. Malibu was on the counter in between them. So he's expecting a penny to fall on the floor where he is because that's where you would be able to hear it on a little bit of a harder floor. The rest was all carpeted. So he knew that there's no way Malibu was throwing the pennies over there. So he hid himself and he watched and he told me that Malibu was picking up the pennies, walking on top of Bambi's cage and waiting and trying to drop it on Bambi's head. We're talking about multiple pennies. He of course stopped him after that. He didn't bother to remove the pennies from the bottom, but he said this bird is really jealous of Bambi and he's trying to torture Bambi. He was picking up pennies, going over there and creating a very fine-tuned target. Lucky he didn't hit Bambi because Bambi was probably aware and quick as well. I didn't believe it. I took all the pennies out of the cage and took Bambi out of the cage and I wanted to see. And what does Malibu do? I caught him. He picked up a penny. He walked over to where he thought Bambi was going to be and Bambi was not in the cage and looked and I could see that he was planning to drop it. He was planning his aim. What is the moral of this story? That birds are evil. No, it's not actually. It's just that birds have so many of the same feelings that we have that you would never expect them to have. Like jealousy? Like this bird is quite obviously jealous. If you guys own more than one bird, you know what I'm talking about. One has a toy. The other has a toy. One gets this. Picasso gets mad if I kiss Cody too much. He goes to bite me now. He never bites. It doesn't really hurt. But I'm like Picasso, what has gotten into you? They change. They have feelings of jealousy. I could not believe that my little angel was planning a massive attack on an innocent cockatiel. I moved the bird's cage. I give the cockatiel so much love. I wanted him to know that he was loved and I hid all my relations with Bambi from Malibu at that moment. I took him aside and kept him in my room and we had some private sniffy time where my bird couldn't see because I didn't know what my bird was going to do. There's things to be learned from this, namely that one, birds are jealous and two, they can take action on their jealousy, not just by biting, not just by ignoring you, not just by screaming, but by planning attacks. Like birds are wise enough to plan attacks, which is why in my toys video, I also went over the dangers of having heavy loose toys around not because your bird is a closet serial killer, but because they can really just drop things on each other by accident. Although in this story my bird is in fact a closet murderer, which I wasn't too happy to discover, but I was impressed with his thought process. I just did not condone that kind of behavior. I remember this story. I don't know why I remembered this story. I think I actually remembered this story because I was making the toy video for you guys and I thought I have got to share this story. So that is our storytime Sunday of the day, right Picasso? We want to thank you guys so much for tuning in and I'm going to leave you with a question of the day. One question will help me with the channel. I want to know, do you guys enjoy or look forward to seeing which bird is going to be the engaged, not caged bird of the day? I want to know if you guys like that. I really, really do. I've done it on a few videos now and it's hard to know if you guys are enjoying it, waiting for it. So if you would leave me that in the comments, I would love that. And question two of the day, have you ever caught your bird planning some sort of devious act? Let me know in the comments. I would love to know your answers to both of those questions. 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