"Do you take cages?""Cages?"
"Bird cages?"
"Oh ,yes we do. I am sorry has your budgie died?" (nobody can accuse me of not being empathetic with a pet owner's pain)
"Oh no, I bought it for my Mum didn't I because I thought it would keep her company as she lives on her own but from the day she got him she says he has never shut up and it is driving her mad"
"Isn't that what they are supposed to do - talk?"
"She said it wasn't saying any proper words, just chirping away as if it was cross all the time ( kept quiet at this point. I have absolutely no experience of cross budgies and didn't feel I had much to contribute) and she didn't want it anymore. So I have brought its cage and lots of other bits and pieces that we got for its cage"
Now, reader, I think I can safely say that this budgie has made a big mistake in getting on the wrong side of this family. There was so much stuff in that cage in the way of bells, ladders, swings etc. it was like Centre Parcs for budgies. There was even a plastic budgie which I admit did give me a start when I first saw it as I thought it was the budgie itself! I think this might be what upset the real budgie - a rather attractive looking budgie already in position on the perch who never even acknowledged his presence. I think I might get cross myself.
I tentatively asked after the whereabouts of the budgie but it is now apparently back with the breeder. That will teach him.
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