SandyinFlorida

Hi kiwibarb12 and everyone else! Thanks for asking about Snoopy. I am afraid all my friends here are a little (lot) sick of me talking about him. Snoopy is getting pretty cocky now. He spends most of his days on top of his cage surveying his kingdom. He has started to climb all the way down to the floor and take a stroll all around the room. No plant or pot is safe from him. We are still building trust. If he is on the floor, he will step up very easily. From the cage, not so much yet. He has learned when it is time to go back in the cage. I tell him he has to "go home" and make a circle with my hand. Of course I explain to him why he has to go in - I'm going out, bedtime, I have to do laundry in the garage, etc. I would say he does it 3/4 of the time now. We try to have Shoulder Time every day. I let him up and go around the house and tell him all about the other rooms and what they are used for. Then we sit on the screened patio so he can get some direct sunlight. He loves to drink my ice water while we are out there. He was named when I got him and aptly so. He will beg from us anything we eat. He looks just like the Snoopy comic when he is being the vulture. Cracks me up! He has stopped biting me for the most part. He usually will just "taste" me now. Although today we were on the patio getting sun and the cat wanted up. I let her jump up on the right side and held her far from Snoopy. He reached down and bit me on the arm. It was like he was saying it was HIS time now and put the cat down. He didn't break the skin but he got his message through just the same. I am very excited he will be getting a great new cage tomorrow. It is from the WPIC PET STORE on Ebay. Great deal! I'll let you know how he likes it.

Hi kiwibarb12 and everyone else! Thanks for asking about Snoopy. I am afraid all my friends here are a little (lot) sick of me talking about him. Snoopy is getting pretty cocky now. He spends most of his days on top of his cage surveying his kingdom. He has started to climb all the way down to the floor and take a stroll all around the room. No plant or pot is safe from him. We are still building trust. If he is on the floor, he will step up very easily. From the cage, not so much yet. He has learned when it is time to go back in the cage. I tell him he has to "go home" and make a circle with my hand. Of course I explain to him why he has to go in - I'm going out, bedtime, I have to do laundry in the garage, etc. I would say he does it 3/4 of the time now. We try to have Shoulder Time every day. I let him up and go around the house and tell him all about the other rooms and what they are used for. Then we sit on the screened patio so he can get some direct sunlight. He loves to drink my ice water while we are out there. He was named when I got him and aptly so. He will beg from us anything we eat. He looks just like the Snoopy comic when he is being the vulture. Cracks me up! He has stopped biting me for the most part. He usually will just "taste" me now. Although today we were on the patio getting sun and the cat wanted up. I let her jump up on the right side and held her far from Snoopy. He reached down and bit me on the arm. It was like he was saying it was HIS time now and put the cat down. He didn't break the skin but he got his message through just the same. I am very excited he will be getting a great new cage tomorrow. It is from the WPIC PET STORE on Ebay. Great deal! I'll let you know how he likes it.

My Snoopy loves to chew on my potted plants. They are not poisonous because I also have cats and dogs in the house. Does anyone know of a plant I can grow that would be perfectly fine to let him chew on? Maybe even beneficial?

<br><br>Post edited by: SandyinFlorida, at: 2007/09/26 20:54

I had only had Snoopy a couple of weeks but he was already brave enough to come on the arm of my chair. I was thrilled and let him sit there and watch me while I read the paper in the mornings. One morning he bit my hand. I figured the paper rustling had scared him. That was until he walked up and clamped down on my upper arm. Looking back in hindsight (20/20, of course)I realized he was trying to establish dominance. We nipped that in the bud. Now he will come on my shoulder while I putz around the house and do chores. I am trying to get him from being afraid of towels by folding clothes with him. Keep your fingers crossed.

Great. Glad to know everything is fine.<br><br>Post edited by: SandyinFlorida, at: 2007/09/26 19:50

That's good to know. The weird thing is he cleans out the INSIDE of his beak with the ball of paper. I have just given him strips of coffee filter to use. I figure it will be safer than to use inked paper. He won't use copy paper for this purpose, I have tried that. Must be a texture thing.

Hello all. Newbie SandyinFlorida here. I have a 5 y/o CAG I got about 6 weeks ago. He was very much loved by his old mommy but had become cagebound. She had moved into a 5th wheel about a year and a half ago and stopped letting her birds out of their cages. (She also had a Blue front Amazon, 3, and a Severe Macaw, 4) She wanted them all to have a home with more freedom. I went over to see the parrots without being set on which one to get. As I told her, let's see which one picks me. Snoopy, my CAG, couldn't take his eyes off us. He was the male and the others were female. I was intimidated by the Macaw and was trying to bond with the Amazon. She was terrified of me. Snoopy, on the other hand, came right up and when I offered my hand he bit gently and then harder when I didn't pull away. He did this a couple of times. I told her I wasn't sure about being able to deal with a large parrot. I had only had a Quaker up until then. She ha offered me all 3 for a very small price with the triple cage, but that was probably too much for me and my husband to deal with at once. Well, after I sent the e-mail saying I wasn't going to get one, I couldn't stop thinking about Snoopy. She was going to send them all to her stepfather out of town, but thankfully, that fell through and I got Snoopy. He is AWESOME. I am really enjoying him and trying to learn as much as I can about Greys. I appreciate you all being here.

Hi all. I am a new Grey owner. Snoopy is a 5 y/o CAG. Has anyone else notices their birds cleaning off their beak after eating sticky or wet food? My Grey like to ball up a piece of newspaper strip and roll in in his beak. It seems like he is using it like a toothbrush to clean his beak. Is their any such thing as a toothbrush for the birds? Is there any other paper I should be using? I always make sure there is no color print on the strips I give him. Thanks for the help.