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Beautiful bird!

One thing to try is eating yogurt. The live active cultures build up your immune system and fight everything from allergies to infections to anything else that attacks your body. I used to have spring time allergies and several uninary tract infections a year. Since I started eating yogurt everyday, I have had almost none. I still get the occassional sinus headache but have not had a sinus infection since I started eating a cup a day.

Have you tried different types of pellets?

That is so wonderful to hear! Cody is very lucky to have found you.

If you are 35, or older, you might think this is hilarious! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning.... Uphill... Barefoot... BOTH ways. yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on my kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in Utopia! And I hate to say it, but you kids today, you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have the Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter - with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox, and it would take like a week to get there! Stamps were 5 cents! Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! Nowhere was safe! There were no MP3's or Napsters or iTunes! If you wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the record store and buy a 45 rpm "record" yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio, and the DJ would usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! There were no CD players! We had AM radios in our car.. not even FM then Cause, hey, that's how we rolled, Baby! Dig? We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called, they got a busy signal, that's it! There weren't any freakin' cell phones either. If you left the house, you just didn't make a call or receive one. You actually had to be out of touch with your "friends". OH MY GOD !!! Think of the horror... not being in touch with someone 24/7!!! And then there's TEXTING. Yeah, right. Please! You kids have no idea how annoying you are. And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your parents, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, the collection agent... you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy PlayStation or Xbox video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!!! NO REMOTES!!! Oh, no, what's the world coming to?!?! There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying? We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons ! And we didn't have microwaves. If we wanted to heat something up, we had to use the stove! Imagine that! And our parents told us to stay outside and play... all day long. Oh, no, no electronics to soothe and comfort. And if you came back inside... you were doing chores! And car seats - oh, please! Mom threw you in the back seat and you hung on. If you were lucky, you got the "safety arm" across the chest at the last moment if she had to stop suddenly, and if your head hit the dashboard, well that was your fault for calling "shot gun" in the first place! See! That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled rotten! You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1960 or any time before! Regards, The Over 40/50 Crowd

*I like Dave's philosophy*

Some of the images are very disturbing but the others make up for it. Thanks for posting this.

Time of day is also huge. I have a baby but even he is only really cuddly right before bedtime. If I try that nonsense in the middle of the day Neo wants no part of it. He likes to have his head scratched on his timetable. If I try when he's not in the mood, he moves away. I have to plan training when he's not hungry or sleepy. I'm slowly learning his "language" and adapting what I do to what he wants. For instance, in the morning I put him on his stand. He ignores food and his toy. He moves over and stands on his water bowl and flaps his wings. His stand is right by my chair. So his wing flapping tells me that he wants to come over and sit on the arm of my chair. I thought at first that meant he wanted pets and cuddles. Nope. He doesn't want me touching him. Our primary interaction is me saying "Don't chew on my shirt". (He seems to already know what this means as he stops chewing when I say this....until he starts chewing again, and I say it again, and so the game goes.) It's a never ending learning process, more for me than him!

All I can tell you is that you are setting yourself up for heartbreak if you expect Timmy to live up to your expectations. You need to start figuring out ways to make yourself live up to HIS expectations.

I think I would try first to provide a dish or pan of water big enough for him to bathe himself and see what happens. My second step would be to take him to a place where water is running like the kitchen or bathroom and see how he reacts. I wouldn't introduce him to water in those rooms though until I had introduced him to the room itself. (The first time I took Neo up to my bedroom it freaked him out a little bit.)

I am glad that Sadie has found her REAL home! I'm looking forward to pictures as well!!

I'm thinking that she is going to give you indications. I would probably have a cover ready and take cues from her. Being away from the dogs, she may not have the same need for the cover.

Thank you Azzie! I actually saw that one even before the video that came with the harness. That video is linked on the aviator harness website.

My first experience so far has been a harmless destruction. Neo started taking apart his colorful ladder inside his cage. He got out one of the red pins that hold the rungs in place. I opened the cage to take it from him and he ran from me!! LOL! So I gave up and let him keep it. After a few minutes he dropped it outside the cage. I decided I would be fighting a losing battle to put it back in place. Since then he has removed several other pins and the ladder is now lying in a heap at the bottom of the cage. Good luck protecting your monitor!!

Thank you! I'm really enjoying this. It's very brief, less than 5 minutes a day. But I think it is part of the bonding experience. I'm doing something that isn't comfortable for him but he gets rewarded with lots of loving touches (since I haven't yet found a snack that he likes) and I don't press it too far. I look forward to being able to take him to visit school children and senior citizens.

I feel you. This is my most difficult time of day. I finally have time to sit down and relax but Neo is sleeping. He's in the next room and I MISS HIM! LOL!

All I can say is that it depends on the grey. Some love everybody. Some love only their "flock" (family). Some love just one person but tolerate others. My TAG is just a baby but in the month that we have had him he has sort of become leary of my husband. He lets me do anything. I'm expecting that to change in time when Neo gets more confident. You just have to take them for what they decide. You can modify it but I don't think you can completely change it.

It was when you relaxed. They are so sensitive to our emotions! Good for ALL of you. HUGE thumbs up!!

Seriously laughing about you having to go because he's ringing the bell. LOL!

I have to say that the first thing I thought of with the kisses on the mouth was human germs. I have read that we shouldn't allow our birds to eat from our food where we have been eating because of the germs in the human mouth. So I have never gotten my mouth close to my birds. Of course I am paranoid!

Thank you so much for the news. I had read on here that Jayd was under the weather and was concerned since he has been gone so long. Prayers for the family.

I got a picture today with the harness on, still just one wing. He was even better today but I think I still want to continue this for awhile longer before I put the other wing in. I won't be taking him outside until the spring anyway.

For those who have Netflix, this movie is available on the "view instantly" choices. I just added it to my list.

Congratulations Karen! I can't wait for pictures and stories!

I bought this really cute baby toy for Neo. It has a suction cup base so I can put it on his playtop. It is like a ferris wheel with a different activity at each of four axles. One plays music. So far it has gotten him to practice his flying. He flew from his playtop to the family room to get away from it. Tonight I was playing with it while he was sitting on the chair arm by me. He did beak one piece but then backed off. The good news is that if he doesn't like it I still didn't waste my money. My six month old granddaughter LOVES it!