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Last Night :: Every Night :: Tomorrow Night
alfred hitchcock's the birds
2001-09-23
We brought two budgies out of the garage. I was shocked, because I thought I had found all my birds homes when my mom was diagnosed. One was dark blue, white and black, and one was a more usual light blue. Then we brought many more birds out of the garage. A poicephalus of some sort, a sun conure, two toucanettes, a dove, and either one or two macaws of varying type. All of them were in horrid conditions because not only had I forgotten to get them homes, I had forgotten them completely. I didn't know how they had survived so long. The (or one of the) macaws had it's top beak completely broken off. Their feathers were extremely dirty. I was shocked, I didn't know I had these birds... then I could vaguely recall buying them and their cages. I had them in the backyard and was very upset, and trying to get them into cages. I only had three. Several of the birds got out, but I caught them and put them back in the cages. They didn't seem upset at all. The cages were sparsely outfitted with only branches. I tried to keep my mom away but she kept coming close and handling the birds. I was close to panicking about the condition of the birds, having forgotten them, and my mom being around them. My neighbor came over, and my sister was there too. Then I was at the zoo with Jenny. We went out the back entrance to the primate house, where the chimpanzees have a yard. There was fruit -- bananas, mangoes, and so on, even a tiny kiwi, which I expected came from the kiwi plant on the other side of the primate house -- everywhere on the walk, and a chimp came out over to us. I gave him a piece of fruit and told Jenny how to sign "I want more to eat" in sign language. Jenny gave him a piece of fruit. Then I started feeling very guilty, and told her we shouldn't give them any more, because the chimps were on a special diet, just like all the animals in the zoo, and they got their fruit and primate chow and so on from the keepers, and we'd be ruining their carefully planned nutrients. Jenny was very upset because she wanted to give the chimp more food. All the fruit had been lined up in an elevated boxish thing. I said perhaps we should take it so no one else gives it to the chimps. Jenny got mad and we stormed off across towards an aviary. It was my birds. They were in large aviaries in pretty much the mix I'd had them in, with glass or acrylic fronts. There were many people looking in at them. Water was pouring through the top of the macaw's cage and when I looked back it was clean instead of terribly stained like it had been. The macaw said something about the importance of the small feathers to the audience, and was completely featherless on it's chest. Then it pretty much stabbed itself with a strange knife thing, and then took a big bite out of it's chest to "show" the audience the feathers under its skin or something. I freaked out and found my mom in the crowd. I told her we had to take them out because they were making him hurt himself. She looked scornful and didn't care, and said, "Well, you cut yourself."
Last Night :: Every Night :: Tomorrow Night
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