Well, it isn't really evil. After the experience with the Finsters, and knowing that Peanut is wary of new things, I introduced this nice cholla perch slowly. First I showed it to him a few times. Then I pushed a sunflower seed into one of the holes, and slowly put the seed near him. It didn't take Peanut long to eat the seeds, although he was wary at first. Finally, I put the perch on the roof of his house, but always with a seed or two within his reach. Click here to see Peanut on his house with the new perch.

Peanut still hasn't climbed onto the new perch, although I have started sticking the sunflower seeds higher than they are in this picture. Once I put one pretty high. He stood up on his tippy toes and tried to pull it out of the hole, but it was really stuck. He kept trying to pull it out, and finally he grabbed it with his beak, and dangled there for a few seconds. Didn't work. So then he clamped down with his beak, pulled his body up, grabbed onto the perch with his feet just long enough to pull the seed out, then he dropped down to the roof of his house and ate the seed. I wish I had a movie of that!