Teddy the terrorist gets a lesson...

[lovezebs]

As some of you good folks already know, I have a flight which houses Luciano (canary) , Pauly and Petey ( society boys), and Max and Micky (zebras). As some on the forum already know as well, this little group live quite happily together. My other two zebra boys Teddy and Timmy (aka the terrorists) used to live with the rest of the family, until they had to be evicted due to unacceptable behaviour. They moved into their own apartment.

Lately I had been experimenting with placing T&T back in the flight while I clean out their cage. This has had mixed results, with everybody getting along, sort of (some days better than others).

Now let me mention here, that Luciano (canary) has had tender feelings for Petey (society) for quite sometime now. He likes to hang out with him, groom him and so on.

Enter T&T this am. The usual beeps and meeps and zooming around begins like every morning, as I'm chopping veggies, washing little dishes etc. Teddy and Timmy chasing each other, chasing Micky and Max. Micky and Max , chasing them back and everybody's happy. Then Teddy decided to go over to the dark side. For no apparent reason, he went after Petey, who was just an innocent observer. Poor Petey went fluttering into the air with a startled sqwack, and all hell broke loose.
I have never before seen such an enraged canary with murder in his eye. My sweet, mild Luciano turned into an angry hawk right before my eyes. He tackled Teddy in mid air and threw him to the ground with wings extended, beak wide open, hissing a battle cry while bouncing all over him.

At that point there was a lot of screaming going on and some of it was the birds too. The fight broke up with no physical harm done and Teddy and Timmy got tossed back into their cage so fast that their feathered little heads were spinning.

OMG! I'm too old to break up fights folks. It took me half an hour and two cups of tea to get my blood pressure to head in the right direction.

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I have never before seen an enraged canary with bloody murder in his eye. Luciano, my sweet loving boy, turned into a hawk right before my eyes. He tackled Teddy in mid-air and tossed him to the ground

[Angela&Shalamar]

Who needs soap operas?! LOL! Glad no one got hurt.

[debbie276]

Keep in mind, every time you add birds to a cage there will be arguing and bickering till they settle the pecking order. So every time you take birds out then add them back it starts all over again.
Hope no one was hurt too badly and they can work things out.
good luck

[Ginene]

Yeesh...talk about stressful! I would need a glass of wine after that debacle!!! Something tells me T & T are better off in their bachelor pad, rather than with the rest of their feathered family.