I always had to shake my head at Bandit, who was the only budgie I've owned that didn't like "people food." We eventually got him to eat a celery leaf occasionally and he liked "white seed" (rice), but unlike Merlin and Sylvester and Frisky, he never looked with interest at dinner plates. (Merlin was crazy about pork chops, especially pork chop bones. Sylvester liked turkey. Frisky liked anything that didn't eat him first, but he was especially fond of Special K, wheat bread, and salami.)

Budgies are actually supposed to eat table food of certain kinds to stay healthy: vegetables, rice, noodles, wheat bread, etc. Fatty stuff isn't good (not for us humans, either!), nor is spicy food, and chocolate is poisonous. A complete seed diet is bad for them; too fattening. I'm glad Pidgie likes the LeFebre fruit pellets along with his Forti-Diet and the occasional sprig of millet, which is the bird version of candy.

But lately he's been picking stuff off the dinner plate, too—his favorite...don't laugh...seems to be chicken soup. Last night James made pork slices cooked up with celery, carrots, onions and mushrooms in a brown gravy sauce. Pidge sampled a little of everything, but seemed quite taken with the pork! (and the gravy).

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