Talon

Very good advice, I always ask after I open the door, and then let them walk or climb out, only then do I offer my hand and say " do you want to step up?" always let it be their choice. After all, it's THEIR space, THEIR bedroom, they will respect and trust you more if you dont force it on them.

Great ideas! Never thought to buy rawhide toys for them, are they safe?

Great idea for a thread topic! I kind of think of Rikki as a rescue. I am her 4th home, although I have had her for 3 1/2 years. Her home prior to me was for 6 weeks only after those owners thought she was too noisy, and came here to ask for advice as to how to keep her quiet! I was so furious, that I said I would take her, (since they obviously didn't do their homework on a grey before getting her from her 2nd owner.........it turns out they said I could have her and they lived 2 1/2 hours from me, so they drove her to my house, and she finally landed in her forever home!

Negative means he does not have any internal parasites. Seems like a good thing to me.

Hi Ray, I am so very very sorry to hear about Smokey 17 yrs is a very long time, I would love to see a picture of Smokey. I am sure you and your family and flock miss him very much. I loved hearing about your day, and how your fids are there to comfort you as much as you comfort them. You painted a wonderful picture and I feel as tho I was there watching as a fly on the wall with a smile on my face from such a beautiful sight. RIP Smokey...

Happy birthday Louie! Hope you have a great one! P. S. Rikki says she hopes you gets bowl as a birthday gift!

You don't see too many videos as cute as this!

Happy new year to Cricket: Love: Nilah

I am feeling bad, Rikki's birthday was Dec. 13. She turned 6 years old. I had a running accident a few days earlier and I was very out of sorts.......I just wanted to acknowledge her Birthday even tho it is late. I know she doesnt care....but It has been bothering me. HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIKKI! Hope you enjoyed your bowl that you had fun breaking. :confused:

I agree completely! I never use te earthquake method, but if the roll doesn't work, I use the drop the hand a bit as you do, and that works fine.

You guys all made me laugh with you comments, suggestions and stories! Is comforting to know I'm not alone in the dish breaking olympic games! Rikki is the only one of my parrots that MUST do this, so I thought it was just her bizarre personality. It will give me more patience knowing when she breaks a plate or dish, somewhere here on our forum, someone else is going thru the same thing....hee hee!

Beautiful pics! You must e etting so excited!

Heather, I have one that Rikki came with. Her previous owners told me she loved it and always slept on it at night, so I put it in her cage, and she used it sometimes, but preferred the spiral rope I have hanging down from the top instead, so although I keep it in her cage, but unplugged and she only goes on it to get to her bucket of foraging toys. Maybe I will move it and try it again....

YES!!!!! Perfectly stated!

Yikes, haven't yet dug my humidifier out.....better do that tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder.

I think if she was cold, she would fly somewhere else. At night, rikki has a spot she stays in above my dining room window, her feet are very cold when I get her to bring her to bed, she doesn't seem to kind I guess. My house goes down to 64 at night, all my birds seem okay with it, their cages are covered.

Happy Birthday Annabelle! I remember now, she is just a few weeks younger than my Rikki. Enjoy your toys!!

Today, I was doing a thorough cleaning of the bird cages since my running accident 3 weeks ago. I have a severely sprained left wrist. ( I am left-handed). Up until now, I had done only the necessary cleaning to get by, so they needed a FULL out clean!! It was taking much longer than expected, so I stopped for a quick bowl of yogurt for lunch. I left the bowl on the kitchen table to go back to cleaning as NIlah was still licking (yes, she licks the bowl like a dog) the bowl. :rolleyes: Thus the story begins: Rikki as many of you know, is famous for throwing EVERY dish onto the ceramic floor to hear them explode! :cool: (corelle dishes explode when they do break) Well.......a while later, I hear CRASH!!! :eek: BUT.....this is one of the few times it didn't break! HA!!!! I thought, Ha HA on you Rikki!!! :p Well, a while goes by, I am still scrubbing away, fighting with Nilah who thinks every cage is HERS, and it is her job to make sure I NEVER touch them! :mad: Next thing I hear.....is a bowl trying to be broken....... Well, let the video tell the rest of the story. Hope you enjoy!! ( there are 2 videos)

Talon was my sons bird, and it wasn't more than a couple of days if that before I was taking her out to be with me while my son was in school! she was so cute I couldn't stand the thought ofmher being locked in a cage all day....

Hi Spooky! I Love the pictures! Especially Nikko, she always had a special place in my heart as she is so much like Talon, both in looks and personality. I can't imagine having 2 birds that look like twins! That would be so hard, but funny! At least I have a tag and a cag, so it's easy. Sounds like you are making progress when they both are on you. They will learn to coexist, and after time, they will be able to be out unsupervised together. My 2 took a while before I completely trusted them. Mostly, rikki would try to be friends, but Because she is bigger, Talon was always scared, thought she had to defend herself, but mostly flew away. They now are fine, not friends, but accept each other as flock members. Poor Talon is not the king bird anymore, and that is heartbreaking for me, but I try to give her extra attention and special time with me. I love the updates, keep them coming!!

I prefer to spend it at home away from the crazy drinkers and drunk drivers. I like to be home, I will spend it with my kids, parrots, dogs and cats! Watching tv, I may have a margarita, some snacks and watch it on the tv! Guess I'm showing my age! LOL!!

They are adorable!

Thus the controversy begins............there are many threads here in the past over whether or not the paper towel oe toilet paper rolls have toxic glue or not......... FYI: I chose not to give them to my parrots because I never really found a correct answer as to whether or not they are safe....I always err on the side of caution. Just my nature.

My birds are fed the specially made food from Bird of Paradise store in NJ. It is everything they need and they love it. All natural and freshly made. I am on autoship, so I get as much as I need shipped to me fresh every month. My tag is spoiled and doesn't eat much of it, so she also get Kaytee parrot mix without the sunflower seeds as she doesn't like them...

I used to have a set schedule when I has 1 parrot. Then life changed, I got divorced, moved into a new house, acquired 2 more parrots, and became the person financially responsible for my 3 kids that lived with me. So things changed. Most mornings, I get my 3 birds out of their cages, they hang out on their baskets on the counter while i prepare breakfast for them and myself, we have breakfast together, I am able to allow them free time in the house for about an hour or So, then we all go upstairs to shower etc. pretty much after them having been out for about 3 hours or so, they go back to their cages and I give them a snack as well as their regular food. Other days, when I have many errands to do, I like to do the early in the morning after getting the kids to school and going to the gym, I uncover their cages and give them toast in their cages until I can get back later. They seem fine with this as long as I don't do it every single day, ( they have been spoiled with ME time) I let my birds out as much as possible when I am home and they are spoiled.