BaxtersMom

Well, we have given our house guest a temporary name. We are calling it Psycho:evil: What came to us as the most loving adorable bird has some how turned evil overnight:ohmy: He is doing fine other than being a little heathen today. He isn't friendly to me at all today. He is biting me if I come near. He seems to like my husband much more and that is fine but a little nippy with him, too. He ate good, rested quietly for awhile on the playstand. We made some calls to see if anyone reported missing birds, we searched several neighborhoods for flyers. Even checked the newspaper to see if there were any missing pets. None so far. I really doubt if we will find the owners. We ended up getting him a really nice cage. He went in, ate, checked it out but wanted to perch on top. That was ok untill he wanted to start flying all around the house. We can't let him get to Baxter and I feel bad keeping him locked inside all by himself with no contact or vision of us. That seems cruel. Whenever we would take him back to the cage he would just fly away again. So he's back inside and has been screaming loudly ever since then. I'm not sure how this is going to work out:unsure: I know he's not comfortable here yet and this is all new and strange but he's pretty loud:) My husband is already saying we need to think about getting rid of him if we cant find the owners. I don't think we should make any quick decisions on it at all but I am kind of concerned too that he might not fit our household. Then again after a couple weeks things may settle down and he may turn back into the loving bird we first met last night. He just seems loud and angry tonight. :angry: And pacing in the cage. Any advice??? I don't mind a little noise but is it an all day thing? Will he get sweet again?

Thanks. I just want to make sure if I am going to quarantine the new bird that I do it correctly. I hate to go through all the trouble just to find out I did it wrong or forgot a step. Its funny that we got Baxter a month ago and the house was total chaos and stressful for a few weeks in the beginning and just when we got all settled in and had our routine "Boom" :woohoo: Here we go again:blink: I'm not complaining though.{Feel-good-000200BB} We knew we wanted another bird but certainly not expecting one this fast. I will still try to find it's owners though. I am really feeling sorry for them about now. They must be so worried and thinking the worst:(

My grey has been very nice & quiet. Hope it stays like that but I could see/hear him mimicking the nanday:woohoo: I bet it would be loud. I am just wondering if them being is separate rooms is enough or is there a certain distance they should be kept from eachother? And I have been washing my hands after touching the new bird before I touch my grey but what about the clothing. The nanday will come up on my shouldes when ever it gets the chance and play in my hair. Is there any risk in that? This quaratine thing has got me thrown for a loop. We did get a nice cage for the new guest so he has a proper place to be right now...We were thinking about calling him "Mo Money":laugh:

Hi all. Our houseguest is still with us:laugh: . We didn't have a proper cage for him to sleep in last night but he seemed very comfortable on the big playgym we have. He stayed on it all night. It has food and water at the top. We put him in a separate room from Baxter. Last night he was so friendly and sweet and only wanted to be on me or my husband. He had to be close. He seems to prefer my husband today. I think now that it's a new day, he's a little more shocked than last night. Today he wants nothing to do with me at all and will bite me :evil: if I try to get him on my finger. He will run to my husband though and climb up his shirt and settle in. I didn't think about calling a vets office. Thats a good idea. There are several around here. Went driving today but seen no flyers. I think we are going to try and find a suitable cage today. We did plan on getting another bird anyway, (but not this soon:woohoo: so regardless if we find his family or not we will need an extra cage anyway. We will most likely keep him if his we can't find his family but I would like to return him to his family if I could. Hey, does anyone know the proper distance I should keep him from Baxter during his quarantine? I'm not sure how far apart they should be. And also how do greys and conures get along together?<br><br>Post edited by: BaxtersMom, at: 2008/08/16 21:47

Ok, thanks for all the help & info. I will go check out the guidelines about quarantine. We thought it might have belonged to someone in our neighborhood but turns out all his birds are accounted for. We have called animal rescue but they are closed till Monday and they referred us to the police but there aren't any missing birds reported so far. Hmmm. What to do, What to do? It is such a friendly friendly bird and I'm sure someone is worried sick about him/her.

Hi, I have found out it is a nenday conure aka black hooded nenday parakeet. People are so great on this site. I will try and find his/her owner. It may belong to a neighbor but we thought he only had macaws. He's not home right now. I've already called animal control/police and there aren't any reports of missing birds yet. This is the sweetest thing. Someone really took a lot of time with this bird and they are probably worried sick. I will try to find his mommy and daddy but if I can't I will keep give him a good home. Also, I didn't think about quarantine and already introduced Baxter to this one for just a few minutes. I hope it's okay. How long should we quarantine the new bird if he should stay with us? It seems to be very healthy so far.

I just posted a question in the "other birds" section. But haven't gotten a response. So I thought I would try here. My neighbor brought a lost bird over and am trying to find out what kind it is. If you guys would please check the post in other birds under "Help identify this bird" I would greatly appreciate it. I put a picture of the new bird up in that one.

My neighbor brought this bird over to me.:ohmy: It's lost. Said it just flew on his shoulder.:woohoo: :silly: Brought it to us because he knew we had a grey. I don't know what kind of bird it is though. Does anyone know what kind of bird this is???? If this picture does not post, please check my profile page. I have been having trouble downloading pictures in the forum.

Oh, Nice picture, that's a beautiful grey. I love the colors. What's his/her name?

Good, progress is being made:) I brought home a new bird last month. He wasn't a baby, he is 12 years old but he was pretty leary of me the first week or so, too. Probably because I wanted to play with him right way so bad and he didn't want no part of it:( . I finally realized I needed to slow down a bit and instead of messing with him, i started messing with things in his cage. Changing perches, the water and food bowls, putting in some new toys, just messing around in the cage and pretty much not paying any attention to him. That's what did it for me. He was very interested in what I was doing and then wanted me to pay more attention to him. So I started more of the baby talk to him. It worked pretty good. I had to wait on him. But not paying as much attention to him but being there and doing stuff made him want to check me out more. We've been together about a month now and we've bonded very well.

Hi, Glad to meet you. I joined last month and just love it here. I hope you tell us more about yourself. Do you have a grey?

Great photos. I'm sure you are so excited to have her with you. Congradulations!!!

Hi! Welcome to the forum. I joined last month when I brought my 12 year old grey home. You will love it! There are so many wonderful people to give advice and to just swap stories and chat with. It's a great place to be. Look forward to hearing more about Charlie & Cracker.

Nice picture. I'm just wondering how long the bamboo plant is going to stay like that:woohoo: Looks like a fun grey toy:side:

Also, is there a way to search on the forum for certain topics like this or other ones that I might be interested in? I do not how to search for things. So all I know how to do at the moment is post another question on the forum but I know it's probably already been covered somewhere else.

I need some advice on safe cleaning supplies. I realize that grey are super sensitive to cleaning supplies, fragrances and many other chemicals, etc. I've had Baxter about a month now and have been afraid to use all the frilly smelly :woohoo: stuff I used before like carper fresh, yankee candles, potporri, air freshners, perfume oils,etc. I would like to clean my carpet to and am afraid to do that, too. I have a steam cleaner that I use but not sure what to put in it now. I heard vinegar is good but how much. I don't want my home to smell like pickels:woohoo: I have a cat and a small dog also and I swear my nose is more sensitive that most people. I have been vacuuming and cleaning but not with my real strong cleansers and my house doesn't "stink" but it doesn't smells fresh anymore either:ohmy: . I want to smell fresh and clean again. What kind of products can I use that will be safe for my CAG and give a fresh clean scent? Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated. I never really noticed having pet smells untill Baxter arrived:P:unsure: but I love him anyways. Do greys have more odors than other pets?

Hi and welcome to the forum. My grey is starting to whistle now. I have been trying to teach him the theme from Andy Griffiths show. I don't whistle very well and it's totally off key and I'm afraid my bird whistles out of tune, too but gosh it's funny:woohoo: :blink: . Music makes the world go round.

Hi Tycomom, oh the difference is wonderful. I highly recommend the nail trims. It was excruiating pain for me but I just grinned and beared it:S I was handling him less and less it hurt so bad though. I wish I could have taken him in sooner but he is so new to me and I was told to give him a month at home with me before doing something stressful like that. It went so good. Atleast now I know it doesn't have to be painful:woohoo:

Baxter wasn't a baby but he's new to me. He had humungous adult nails..It hurt so bad. Now his feet are so soft and i don't even feel any nails. Huge difference. It doesn't hurt at all now.

Great pics. I especially love the black and white type photos. Neat!

Yep, we're back home and happy. Me especially:woohoo:

We just returned from the nail trimming. It was so much better than I expected. I sat next to him in the back seat. He was in a cage of course. At first he was hanging on the side of the cage but quickly decided the perch was a better way to ride. He was looking all around and didn't seem to be too shook up over it. His nails were trimmed & we went home. I did hear some loud squaks come out of the room though:) The difference is out of this world!!!! Before he felt like he had razors on his feet and almost to painful to bear. Now it feels like soft soft leather. It even feels good:) What a difference. I didn't expect it to be that drastic of a change. Now we can spend more time together. He didn't seem to mind the trip at all. He isn't even mad at me, thank goodness.

Ok Toni, I just put my vote in:)

My experience with Baxters first out of cage experience was scary for me and him. I have only had him a few weeks but wanted him to be able to go in and out of his cage as he pleased. He is 12 and has always been locked up and I felt bad for him. So I would leave the door open all day and wait and watch but he never came out. Then, dummy me thought I will just reach in and grab him:ohmy: , take him out and let him see how fun it would be...Yea Right. So the fiasco began. I grabbed him by cupping my hands over his back and he was squaking and yelling and of course this scared me in the process. He was hanging on to the side of his cage and I thought he would bite me but he didn't. I never did hold on to him hard but you'd think I was killing him. Anyway, I got him through the door of his cage and his wings started flapping and he jumped out my hands and he went to the floor. He was flapping so the land wasn't too bad. But he kept pooping so I know he must have been scared. So he was on the floor and I just stayed close and watched him. He kept coming over to me, like help me and pick me up so I did and put him on top of the cage. He just sat there on top for a few hours and it was getting time to go to bed and he didn't go back in on his own:( Oh No. Anyway, I figured I would just have to get him and put him back in the cage. Not fun. I was trying to grab him and get him in the cage but he was running from side to side. He eventually went to the back side and fell off his cage. I felt like a total failure. This time no flapping and he went plop. I was worried he could have gotten hurt but he was just fine. I put him back in his cage and felt tremendious guilt over everything. He seemed fine but I felt I really let him down at that time. You see, he didn't know the step up command. I read more books and they said step up was a must to know so I trained him in just a couple days. He was fast at learning that and life has been so much easier now:) I didn't force him anymore and now he goes in and out as he pleases. He comes out in the mornings on his own and stay out for hours and hours. He does travel up and down the sides on the inside of his cage and that is how he ends up going back in on his own. When I need to put him in his cage now, I use the step up command and it's no problem anymore. But it was quite an experience when it was going on. Good luck on it;)

You won't believe how much showing your playstand helped me out. I just bought a large playstand and it has 5 perches going up to the top food area. The perches are pvc and I'm was trying to get him used to it but he really hasn't looked all that comfy on it yet. He more or less just tolerates it :angry: and I figured I wouldn't be using it much. Then I seen the vet wrap on yours and the light bulb went off in my head.:ohmy: I bet with the vet wrap he will feel much more safe & secure. No wonder why he isn't taking to it. The plain pvc is probably scary to him since he can't grip it real good. Thanks for showing it. Now I know what I have to do. Thanks again!!!:woohoo: