Josie's Budgie Tales

“I wonder what kind of mischief I can get into today?” says Josie. “It is rather a dull day, there doesn’t seem to be any thing to do.” You can only play with your toys for so long, it gets boring after while.

“What I really want to do is tease Joey, he is so prim and proper, and I don’t think he even knows how to do laugh…” “I know let’s ask mommy to let us out for a while, sitting in a cage all day is no fun at all.”

Now Josie is an adventurous budgie, she just loves to get into trouble, after all when you are only four months old; you are supposed to get into mischief.

Joey on the other hand is a year old and he is more serious, but one of his pleasures is to get Josie all riled up, he teases her and she responses the same way everytime she has a temper tantrum.

Josie of course does not see things quite that way, maybe because Joey is always is scolding her and telling her what to do.

Josie starts calling, “Mommy, we want out! Mommy we want out!”

“OK, OK, I will let you out for a while, just stay out of trouble,” says Mommy.

“We promise, no trouble,” chirps Josie, “Let’s go play.”

First, they run around the top of the Josie’s cage that is fun, but then things a little out of hand. Joey has a very long tail that Josie would just love to have and every chance she gets she pulls it, very hard, she wants those feathers for her little tail.

She pulls and pulls and pulls some more, but the only thing happening, is that she is dragging Joey across the top of the cage. The feathers will not come out, but Joey is very scared and yells, and screams, “MOMMY! HELP ME! HELP ME!”

Mommy comes running and rescues Joey, “Joey are you alright, let’s see your tail feathers, Josie, naughty budgie, you must not hurt each other, that is not a nice thing to do.” scolds Mommy.

Josie just sits and stares at both of them, “I didn’t do anything wrong.” she thinks, “I only want a longer tail just like Joey.” Her mommy knows that, but she does not want either of her budgies to get hurt.

She has tried to explain to Josie that when she is as old as Joey her tail will be just as long. Of course, Josie is a very impatient budgie, she will not listen, after all, she is quite young yet and waiting to be a year old is a very long time.

Everything starts to calm down, Joey is sorry he yelled and he thinks Josie is sorry for hurting him. He goes over to her and starts to preen her head feathers that always seem to calm her down.

Josie is not so sure about, but she really is sorry that she got into trouble and she does like to get her head feathers preened, it is very relaxing and shows Joey does love her, sometimes. Besides which, it beats being grounded and not getting to have more playtime.

“I like playtime,” says Josie. “Even if I get into trouble, it is still fun to have a friend to tease and play with”.

“I am not too sure about that,” answers Joey, “especially if you keep pulling my tail and nibbling my feet.”

“True, but then you come into my house and eat my dinner, I think that makes us even,” retorts Josie.

Joey replies, “You may be right and you know something, you are still my best friend, for a girl.”

“Gee, thanks.” Said Josie (she always has to have the last word.)

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