Where all the bird news comes to roost!
Easter egg hunts are always fun, but when you add in bots, a saucy Grey and an exuberant Squirt, you get an epic Easter Egg hunt… and one disappointed birdie…
Catch up with Morty’s Easter Egg edition of Beneath the Cage Grate and have a little egg hunt of your own!
Spring cleaning… not quite. Morty is once again witness to, as he puts it, The Crazy Train of antics led by, of course, Alexa.
Squirt’s mom isn’t feeling well so Alexa enlists the help of the bots (Morty enlisted but resists…) to get theirs and Squirt’s house spiffy. It didn’t go as planned. Follow up with Morty in his March ’25 Beneath the Cage Grate column to learn of the chaos that ensued.
Oh dear, seems boredom and a desire to ‘walk on the wild side’ has led Morty to catch up with the (cursing) African Grey parrots of Lincolnshire Park.
As this is a family-friendly blog, we can’t repeat what those saucy beaks said.
Head over to our Beneath the Cage Grate page and Morty will tell you all about his ‘dangerous liaisons’ 🙂
Apologies to Morty for the delay in uploading his New Year’ Beneath the Cage Grate column!
Catch up with Morty and the crazy bots and find out the challenges his mom has had and how Morty is trying to aid her and ward off pesky Alexa!
It goes without saying that Morty is – justifiably – apprehensive about the holidays while living with bots. Alas, this Christmas season has been no different. A very important ‘baby’ went missing due to a bot’s silliness, and Morty finds himself at the centre of mum’s frustrations… until she finds out the real truth.
Find out how everything unravelled in Morty’s December ’24 Beneath the Cage Grate column!
Poor Morty, even Thanksgiving is not safe from the bots.
Head on over to Morty’s November ’23 Beneath the Cage Grate column to find out how he ended up in Birdie Jail and whether he did get a taste of Thanksgiving dinner!
Sometimes, bots can take a fun little prank and blow it up to hilarious proportions.
Morty knows better than to hop on Alexa et al’s coat tails of ‘fun’, but he just can’t help himself.
Our October issue of Beneath the Cage Grate will definitely have gardeners out there looking twice at their late season green tomatoes…!
Sometimes Morty wonders just what’s happening between the bot ears of Alexa.
This month’s edition of Beneath the Cage Grate finds Alexa researching and then attempting to challenge a local insect horde… it doesn’t go as planned…
Catch up with Morty to find out why!
The new Alexa is shaking things up at Morty’s house, and she’s claiming something about Morty, Squirt and all birds that has sent shivers down Morty’s feathers.
Catch up with Morty, Squirt and the bots in our latest edition of Beneath the Cage Grate and decide for yourself whether the new Alexa is going to be an even more formidable pain in the birdie butt than the former Alexa!
Oh dear, poor Morty, his hopes for the permanent ridding of Alexa from his household did not turn out the way he hoped.
Catch up with Morty and Squirt in the July ’24 edition of Beneath the Cage Grate to find out just what transpired with ‘old’ Alexa and how Morty found himself once again in trouble with his mom – and a bot!
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