Happy Goes on Haldol

SHOULD I TAKE THIS TO WENDY'S?


This is the scab from Happy's skin graft. It is the skin graft itself and popped off about two weeks after surgery. There's a new scab underneath but now that is falling off too and it looks pretty good, not great, but pretty good under there. He's ready for me to make him his new leather robe.


A MAN OF THE COLLAR



So to make sure Happy understood everything that is going on in his life, we spoke with his longtime animal communicator, Tera Thomas of Hummingbird Farm. She said he was sending her a feeling that she interpreted as feeling like being chemically depressed as in brain chemical imbalance. That makes a lot of sense to me. Probably these super male moluccans were meant to be burning the adrenalin back on Seram, Malaku and if they can't be doing the velosa raptor thing, they get a brain chemical imbalance!


So it's a good thing Happy is now on haldol to help him beat this self-mutilation thing once and for all. We've been through behavioral psychology classes, various schools of thought on holistic healing, various hardcore Western approaches which now include a skin graft, and a successful herbal approach that we had to halt for a while though. The herbal stuff did work, calendula tea, but we were informed that we should not give it for long term use of more than six weeks without taking a break. So that doesn't really help if it's only temporary success.

So he'll be a man of the collar for a few more weeks until that last scab finally breaks off and then we have instructions from a successful parrot rehabilitator in San Diego on how to make him a leather robe, yes robe that should keep him from chewing his chest and allow him more freedom than the plastic collar.


HE'LL BE A PRIEST IN THE CHURCH OF LOVE



Yep, he'll be a man of the collar and a priest in the church of love. He lives for love more than anything on Earth. He worships love and the attentions he receives from his dad, shown here with Happy stretching a wing in happy repose.

Oh dear Happy! That dear boy. He'll probaby start his tortured screaming or crying as he hears me in my head typing this. Can cockatoos really do that? Well ask a cockatoo caretaker and you'll most likely not get an absolute no.