[Epona]

My parrot chews his claws - awful sound!

And whenever I go near him he begs for scritches (and he can just about say the word 'scritch' now - nothing like a pet that can actually *tell* you what it wants!) - lowers his head and raises his foot to show where he wants me to scratch. Then I preen him, and remove the casings from new feathers that he can't reach himself, and he preens me - gently removing calluses from my fingers and trimming my nails. Sometimes he lies on his back on my arm and waves his feet in the air. When he's done playing and preening he settles down on my arm and goes to sleep.