Are girls more bossy than the boys? Of course our 2 sons would say so, and are always telling us that Mabel's a typical bossy girl when she noses them hard out of the way.

But Dijon made it very clear to me on Christmas Eve that I had no right to be messing with HIS cage, I had already picked all his droppings off the carpet, changed the towel in the cage for a clean one, cleared out the litter tray, wiped all his spray from the corrugated plastic sheets which surround the cage, but clipping the horribly CLEAN, and unsprayed plastic back to the front of the cage was most certainly NOT allowed, and he lunged and bit my right index finger to tell me so.

And to make sure that I wouldn't stop thinking of him on Christmas day when we dared to leave the house, he made it an extra hard bite, so that it drew blood and was throbbing with pain for the next 2 days, hampering everything I did!