Ever see swallows zipping around fields as a kid? I always wanted to touch one. I’d daydream about having an enormous butterfly net so I could catch one.
This little fellow was brought into the clinic. He’s okay, just got himself stuck.
They’re so adorable up close. And so light! They weigh nearly nothing.
7 year old me would have been very happy to know that I finally get to touch a swallow.
Ripley has a very good grasp of the word “touch” and we often use it as a command word to get him to try to be less afraid of new things or to ask his permission to pet him. He knows if we ask him to “touch” a person or object, he’ll be praised for gently tapping his beak against it. He also knows exactly what we mean when we ask him not to touch something,
Today I yelled at him for biting the wall and he did probably the pettiest thing I’ve ever seen him do: he went around touching stuff in the room and saying “no” and staring at me to make sure I was watching him do it.
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