[Still smiling aaaaand. Her bird is still not buying it. Damn it.]

Have you considered that if it has a companion it might have less time to devote to annoying you? [It will not. She has seen first hand what happens when two of these things get together and two birds is twice as annoying. But that won't sell this idea to anyone so...]

Maybe they will even run away together?

[There is a noticeable twitch in her expression of forced cheer when the bird starts chewing on her hair. She is going to skin this thing alive.]