Amos - Thank you for the edification regarding parrot defecation. My only experience with a bird of the parrot sort was working in a business where the owner chose to have something called a Quaker Parakeet as a mascot, which he allowed to fly freely during business hours. Cleaning bird shit off of everything on our desks was a daily ritual. I was never conscious of exactly how often the little flying rat chose to leave his deposits, only that he did it with sufficient frequency that they were all over the place.   When the little fucker died, we employees had a big party to celebrate.   

Also, I am well aware of the proper spelling of "bated". As my comment was directed to The Pooka, who is well known to be the Mudcat's leading practitioner of gibberish, I misspelled it "baited" on purpose as a joke which I'm sure he will get. If you'll notice, I also misspelled "breath" as "breadth". I also misspelled "old" as "ole" earlier in the post and used the word "flurpy" which is, at least according to my spellchecker, not a word at all.