There's a new bird in our cage!

Shirley put a weird ladder with a shiny square on top in our cage. But, whenever you look at the square, there's another bird!

Why is there another bird in our cage?! We're good birds. We sing good songs. Okay, Dragon did bite Shirley but that was just a reflex. He didn't really mean it. (Dragon says the other bird is a boy, Ophie says it's a girl.)

We're trying to figure out where the bird hides. We look into the square and see the bird, but when we look behind it, the bird isn't there.

Dragon tried to trick the other bird by getting Ophie to stand behind the square while he stood in front of it. Dragon kept yelling "He's right there! He's right there!" Ophie kept saying, "I don't see him. He's not here. Nope, no bird." (Obviously, this led to a heated argument with feathers being pulled, poking beaks and quite a few nasty remarks. Dragon and Ophie didn't speak to each other for a while after this.)

We were getting really upset about the new bird being in our cage at night. Steve thought it was mean to put a new bird in our cage, so he took the ladder and square out of our cage when Shirley was getting ready for bed. Shirley told him he was babying us. She put it back in but put it on the side of the cage so that now the other bird is outside our cage. We like it better now that the other bird is outside.

Dragon adds: No one better try to steal my girlfriend Ophie.