hk955

Thanks I tried that. The only return I am getting is for petsmart and Petco. nothing against those places but I want to deal with someone that specializes in birds.

Hi All, My husband and I just moved to the Beaufort, SC/Savannah, Ga area. Does anyone know of or can anyone recommend a GOOD bird supply store in the area? Any info would be much appreciated.

Jaguar wrote: Of course, I guess that is easy for me to say since the neighbor that lives behind me is looking forward to cooler weather when I leave the windows open so he can hear Hannah again in the mornings. He would swear up and down the "sneezes" her heard in the mornings was my girlfriend. Once I told him it was the bird, he thought it was hilarious hearing the bird and I talking, whistling, and yelling back and forth all over the house. But, I also have three big dogs, and they are MUCH louder than the bird. They keep people away....which is why I have them!! :evil:

I would tell them to pack sand! But, I have been told I lack people skills! LOL

judygram wrote: Just a quick note - there are Marines around this forum.....wouldn't be the first time we were proud of puke on our pants......:laugh:

For what it's worth, I only have the one CAG and my 3 dogs. A golder retriever, pit bull/American bulldog mix, and Rotty/Italian Mastiff mix. The dogs all avg about 75-80 pounds a pop. She seems quite content with those knuckleheads running around and doesn't get too bored. I also have a variety of things to keep her occupied in her cage when we aren't home. When we are home, she pretty much can get out of her cage and move around as much as she wants. she throws food to the dogs from time to time and keeps her distance of them when she has too. She will occasionally fly over to the couch where they all are and just hang out arounf them keeping her distance. But, I am licjy with most of the things that we introdude to her because she tolerates a lot of change with no porblems....so maybe I am jst lucky....

Maybe you should simply forget to shut the front door and watch him make his escape to the front. Have a white or black van (cuz when has anyone ever seen a "extraction" in anything other than a white or black van??) pull up to the front door and have the bird jump in. The van can speed off while you "desperately" chase it hoping to save the bird from it's captors only to have the accomplices dump the van in a nearby river after dark and move the bird to your home where you can deny any wrongdoing and make counteraccusations that you are being set up!! Or, try to work something out with the owners...whatever is easier for you.....

Maybe you should simply forget to shut the front door and watch him make his escape to the front. Have a white or black van (cuz when has anyone ever seen a "extraction" in anything other than a white or black van??) pull up to the front door and have the bird jump in. The van can speed off while you "desperately" chase it hoping to save the bird from it's captors only to have the accomplices dump the van in a nearby river after dark and move the bird to your home where you can deny any wrongdoing and make counteraccusations that you are being set up!! Or, try to work something out with the owners...whatever is easier for you.....

Any time I leave the house I leave the Sat radio on my TV playin through my Bose system for the bird and the dogs....and anyone that may decide to try to come in and think someone is home based on the music. She will often try to be louder than the music...she seems to enjoy it though....

I have done both the "large" one and the one for "medium" birds. Hannah doesn't really seem to like more than the other, although, she eats quite a bit other than her "normal" food. We make her muffins every Saturday that last through the week and she gets one of those a day, along with some of whatever we are eating for dinner, i.e. pasta, rice, garlic bread.....haven't really found anything she doesn't like. She also eats quite a bit of nuts and that we put in a "forage" type container she has to pull and mess with to get the peanuts and pistachios and almonds and such. Just my two cents....I didn't realize they were doing a makeover...maybe that is just in your part of the world though....

I have a 2 year old pair of running shoes, just doesn't seem to fit right. I will be more than happy to trade for a....let's say.....2010 Camaro! Seriously, they are a pretty nice set of running shoes....and search other forums all you want, but you will find no evidence of my scam. This message will make your PC explode in 10 seconds....send me your car!<br><br>Post edited by: hk955, at: 2009/01/29 04:39

I guess it matters if your kids end up allergic to bird dander, which I figure you will figure out after the fact. As far as how dusty, I have one CAG and she can put up quite the mess. I clean the cage area, cage, and vaccuum up the mess at least twice a week, but that's just me. Once a week would be fine. But, she does produce a bit of feather and dander. That being said, I am still trying to get her comfortable with bathing and trash. So, once I can convince her to actually throw water about her, maybe that will deminish. All that being said, it's really not that big a concern seeing as how I have supplied her with enough stuff that the mess she makes from that only an additional 30 seconds to clean up the "dust". The toys she destroys, the phone books she shreds, the peanuts, food she throws around......dust is a MINOR concern. Would I say NO to getting her knowing all that......ABSOLUTELY NOT! The companionship, and bond built will be enough, for the right owner. HK sends....

I'm all about gettin mine later.... Either way....the phone book is the way to go. All it took was drilin though the book and some zip strips....she LOVES it!!1! I did that because it was sittin in the bottom of the cage and was getting covered in waste. This way....it's golden!!!!

LOL.....nevermind.....I'm an idiot......:unsure:

Am I doing something wrong here....i keep trying to post a quick reply, but it doesn't come up... Anyway, I posted the pics in my profile since it wouldn't let me attach to my post. Maybe I just need to post more to figure out the quirks....:laugh:

It wouldn't let me post the pics, so I put them in my profile....

Ok, so I am figuring out the rules as I go along, I am posting the pics in my profile. So, since I hyped it all up, you can go there to see them... Sorry....

Kudo's on the net...I had the same idea, but I am lazy.... We had a "bungee type" net in the garage that use can use on the bed of pickups for securing loads that I brought into the house for something. One of the dogs decided it looks delightfully delicious, and chewed it up. So, I took the part I could salvage and folded it over and got creative with some zip-strips. The results were a net I could "hook" to the cage when I wanted to. The plus side, I can unhook it and move the cage when I decide I need to wipe it down. And, since we are in the Homemade toys department, I have attached pics of the phone book I drilled a hole in and zip-stripped to the cage for Hannah to play with. She has already tore into it and it's only been in there about 4 hours!!

I posted a couple more pics of her in my profile thing. I will try to get some more pics of her in action and post them soon. Thanks for the likeing my sense of humor. It falls on deaf ears often. But, I try...

The intro you have all been waiting for!!! We introduced Hannah, the corn covered Grey in the avatar, about 5 weeks ago to the chaos we call life. I am an active duty Marine and my girlfriend works as a banker. Although, she won't bring any work home.. We have 3 dogs, a 10 yr old Golden Retriever, a 3 yr old Rotty/Italian Mastiff mix, and a 10 month old American Bulldog/Pit Bull mix. We picked Hannah up from Chicago after my sister said she had a friend that was looking for a home for her. She was being kept at an office building with another Grey and couple parakeets or some other little things singing about. This is all I have been told of her past.... She is a 7 year old female that spent ALOT of time in this office space. There was a good number of people tht would come and go through the space, but not a lot of interaction with the bird. The person that had her at the office "aquired" her becasue she volunteered to watch her for a time and the original owners never came back for her. I am not sure how long she spent in the office with the other birds, but I think it was in the area of a couple of years. The person that had her was a blonde, older lady - a fact that may come in handy later. We picked her up and made the drive back to the St Louis area. She didn't do well with any one trying to handle her and put up a pretty good fight about being moved. I had to done a pair of workers gloves to initially move her. She did surprisingly well on the 5 hour trip back in the cage we bought for her to travel in. She spent most of the trip clinging to the front of the cage and trying to look out the front of windshield. The cage she came with was good size, but needed replaced, which I did within the first couple of days. Long story short, she seems to really like me, and not my girlfriend much (she is a blonde, and not sure if Hannah is associating the blonde hair with her last captor..:lol: ). She has bitten the crap out of her a couple of times, drawing blood on occasion. Now, MOST of the bites came around her cage, but she has tagged her from time to time away from the cage where she is normally more handleable (is that a word?). I can do almost anything with her. Handle her, pet her, have pretty much any interaction with her and not get bit. She doesn't seem to like the kids when they were here for Christmas, was pretty nervous and edgy when they were around. I had to go away for a weekend and she was better behaved with my girlfriend, but when I got back, that kind of went out the window. Oh, and an interesting note, she hasn't even attempted to bite the dogs. They can sniff all around her while she is in the cage with the door open and she just moves. When she is in the floor (supervised, mind you) she will walk up to the dogs and nibble on their toes when they aren't looking. She seems to eat about anything, and other than the fact she seems to only like me.....doesn't really have any other bad habits. She is not a screamer, plucker, or hellion. We have a bunch of toys and things to keep her occupied when we are working and we try to keep her engaged in stuff when we are home. Her playstand is on the coffee table in teh middle of everything and she has daily play sessions in the sink with a bowl full of water she perches on and play with the silverware (I think because of the noise in the metal sink) and the vegtable scrubber (can't say why to that one - but she loves it). Anywho, I lurk around from time to time and catch up on the reading and leech off the knowledge you all take the time to post here.