Oskar the cockatiel has a new room-mate

[matrixrefugee]

Just back from the local pet shop (where we'd gotten Merry), and we have adopted (or maybe been adopted by) a teeny little yellow parakeet with a smidge of green near his tail. We're still working on choosing a name for him (current candidates are "Frodo" [again from Lord of the Rings: Hobbit names make good budgie names, in my opinion] and "Teeny" [my dad's choice]), but so far he seems like a cheerful little guy. He started twittering and tweedling as the water was running in the washing machine and he was watching my mother as she swept the dining room floor. He's still a little shell-shocked from being brought home, but I think he'll settle in soon.

Unfortunately -- but not unexpectedly -- Oskar the cockatiel isn't too thrilled to see the table across the room from his cage now has a new tenant. He's acting rather like the older kid when the new baby comes home from the hospital.

Comments

[koemiko.livejournal.com]

I wondered if you'd named him "Pippin," but I have to admit that I think Teeny is an awfully cute name.

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

I thought of suggesting Pip or Pippin, but there was a feral parakeet in our neighborhood a few years back, whom we'd been referring to as Pip, so the name really didn't cross my mind since technically it was "taken".