Matt from the blog Who Loves Appetizers? recently found The Finster Log. He sent me a note, added a link to his web site (thanks!), and even dedicated a post to it: "Finch blog," which talks about woeful deaths, and how birds get such strange names. This last was a reference to my habit of calling all small birds Finster, and more specifically, the late Zebra finch named Little Naked Finster Buddy. (He really was quite naked.) Matt had a Society finch called Little Buddy that died not too long ago. Partly because Little Naked Finster Buddy has two middle names, and partly, I'm sure, because I obsess about my birds so much, Matt decided that I'm "officially weirder" than he is.

Which made me laugh. Especially after I read some of his posts about his birds, particularly the one called "Bird song." See, Matt sings songs about his birds. Here's the lyrics to one:

Little Buddy, Little Buddy, Little Buddy, Little Buddy, Little Buddy, Little Buddy, Little Buddy Little Buddy, Little Buddy, Little Buddy, Little Buddy, Little Buddy all day long.

Because, you know, that's pretty weird!

Just now, Jen from the Bug Blog pointed out that Julie has a wonderful sale going on at eBay. Usually, Julie sells molted feathers from her giant flock of birds, but right now she's offering to let her MASSIVE MAD MACAWS MUTILATE the MYSTERY MERCHANDISE of your choice. What a great idea! I wrote to Jen that I was sorry I hadn't thought of that, and Jen e-mailed back "I can see that now - 'send me your photos and Peanut will take hundreds of tiny little bites out of the edges.'"

YES!! EXACTLY!!!

Because, really, the best people are the ones that let their pets Mind Control them into singing songs, giving them funny names, and letting them destroy glossy photographs of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

So in the spirit of Mind Control, I've decided to add a poll to determine which bird owner is the weirdest. What do you think?


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I don't love the format of this poll, but I'm not the Code Queen that I wish I were....