Karen Winter, bird molestor, wrote:

> >>I lived with a cockatiel who regularly masturbated on my hand.
> >>Poor little guy, he was never going to have another bird as a mate,
> >>he was quite old when I adopted him, and he was definitely oriented
> >>toward humans. Why should I make his last few years less pleasant
> >>for him by denying him this release, when it did him no harm, and it
> >>did me no harm?
>
> > Good grief, Karen Winter! The OBVIOUS and CORRECT thing to
> > do would have been to adopt a FEMALE cockatiel! *That* would
> > have been the *respectful* thing to do. Wrongly thinking that it was
> > just ok to enable the aberrant behaviour resulted in him missing out,
> > not only the opportunity to engage in their natural courtship, etc., but
> > every other facet of meaningful association with one of his own kind!
>
> I adopted him from a person who had more birds than she could
> take care of properly.

Sounds like you did an even worse job...

> I thought it was rather sweet, in fact.

You would, you deranged perv.

> He certainly was a
> happier bird with me than with the other 'tiels.

You feel special for it?

> OTOH, I once adopted a 'tiel who hated humans. She bit any
> hand or other part of a human body which came near her.

Good, she probably knew of your reputation and didn't want you ****ing with her.