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I don’t know if this will work. I actually caught a "first" on film. CD6DD36F-78BA-44D0-A394-CB8DCE429AB7.MOV

HI! Dorian and I are back. I know I haven't logged on since 2018, but I never forgot about you guys. I just got busy, and sick, and my back went out, and, well, life. Dorian's still my little feathered entertainment unit. He doesn't talk as much these days, simply because the house we're now in is much smaller than our previous home, and he spends almost all the time with me. He used to use speech to lure me back downstairs to him when I was upstairs taking care of my dad. Dad's been gone for 9 years now, but every once in a while I still hear his voice coming from Dorian. This summer I've been taking Dorian in his travel cage out to the front porch on days when it hasn't been too hot. He loves barking at the dogs who walk by lol. He'll be 21 this coming November. Hard to believe I've had him for 17 years. I'm going to have some fun looking around and getting caught up. Glad you're still here.

No, there is not a specific area dedicated to her. Crossed my mind, but, so far, nothing I have provided for her amusement, except the corrugated boxes, has held her interest for more than a moment or two. Some of them are quite complex, with varied shapes, colors, textures. A pleasant sounding bell, a rubbery chew thing, with nooks for treats, all ignored. Even the treats nestled in them. It seemed she would just make a "bird line" for her latest chosen destruction area and go at it. Per the advice of the person I adopted from, I am keeping her in her cage, except when I specifically make play time, or cage clean time. Sometimes just to hang out. While she has adjusted to this, I don't like it and do not think it is a good long term solution. So, I hesitate to spend any effort to create such a spot as her history indicated she will ignore it. Short of dedicating a room, or area, or building an addition that could double as an aviary, and essentially preventing access to the rest of the house, I don't see a good solution.

Does she have anywhere else to play, other than the top of her cage? Are you able to create her a separate play area away from her cage? You'll need to make it as fun as possible so she wants to be there instead of getting into trouble. I have two shelves above my sofa in my living room. They used to have my ornaments and bits and pieces on them. Alfie discovered them and kept flying over there and flinging everything off. So when I let him out I'd remove all my junk and put some of his toys up there. He loved it and it is his favourite place to play. So I decided that can be his area and removed all my junk. He permanently has toys and boxes to chew/throw- plus a rope boing and a foraging toy. He has stripped the shelves bare (they were some rubbish cheap ones that came with the house) so I'm now planning to change up the area for him to include some rope perches and new natural wood shelves. I didn't have enough space for a large parrot play stand or tree, so I've hung toys from the ceiling and walls and tried to create a few areas for Alfie to hang out. His favourite place is always his selves though- so that's where most of the fun stuff is. He can happily spend hours up there, throwing his foot toys around, shredding boxes, chilling out on his boing and raiding his foraging toy for treats.

It doesn't play for me- just says it can't find the file. Not sure of the best way to upload videos to the forum. An alternate option is to upload to youtube (unlisted if you don't want it to appear in searches etc) and then post the link here.

Darn, it seems to only want to play the first 30 seconds, before he got brave and walked on the scary carpet. Any tips on getting the video to work? I took it on my iPad.