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Then maybe you should have gone;-) Fingers crossed for good news soon!! PS: I don't have a facebook but if you need something (else), just say so and I'll do my best:-)

Robin, how is Yoshi doing now? If I missed your news in one of the threads please put the link for it here. Tnx:-)

So, how is Amos doing now?:-)

Adorable baby and great pictures!:-) I love how fluffy he/she looks!! :-)

Well, this is good news Paul! He is alive and well! Especially if he is flying around! He needs strength to do that so he must have eaten and drank and now he is searching for you! Hope he comes home soon! :-D Tnx for the update:-)

Same here.. Come on home MUrphy!

Looooooooool! Nice one Dave!;-D

I think I'll be hanging my boing on the ceiling too;-) Great video, tnx for sharing:-)

Hello and welcome! :-) Beautiful baby!!:-)

Hello and welcome to you both!:-) I read your story just now and I think it is great you found each other:-D I hope he stays so sweet but do read through threads here which talk about honeymoon period.. Patience and everything will be fine. You are already doing really great:-) More pictures please :-)

Great pictures! She is really pretty! :-)

Hello! Just have few comments.. First,I am very glad to hear you're going to try to work everything out with Ziggy and that he has a forever home:-) I love his name-Ziggy! :-) Also, just wanted to make sure you are aware that one scratch from your cat/s could be lethal to your bird. There are lot of information about this here on the forum and also about how it is important to be very serious and consistent about supervising when your grey and some other animal/s are out at the same time. I'm no expert but after your Grey settles in a bit, IMHO, much can be done,regarding your issue, with training. At least this is my conclusion after reading other peoples experiences... The bird surely doesn't need to be condemned to a cage whenever you and the rest of your family are around (not thinking about hubby). There are threads about that too. I'm surely not the one to be giving tips how that is to be done, but I hope that someone else, with more experience, will:-) Till then do browse the forum. There are lot of very useful information. The one thing I know for sure is that you'll need to arm yourself with lot of patience.. Good luck and keep us posted:-) Pictures?

Congratulation on your new baby! :-) For great advice/story do look up threads from rbpittman when she introduces her new CAG to the rest of her flock. Also, we all had many topics about vet visits so check those out too. This is just to get you started;-)

Before you buy anything, do search the web a bit for information about all types of perches. I'm telling you this because there are a lot of reviews on the web why is one perch better than the other. Of course, in the end, it all comes down to what you believe in, but it is always good to inform yourself. Maybe you'll end up preferring one type like most of us do from the beginning..Btw, I also read Manzanita perches are the best wooden perches because they are hard (hard wood) and bumpy so that is good for their feet.. Zak has them and I am very satisfied with them. Do research a bit..;-)

Above your avatar it says, loud and clear, "FLOCK MEMBER" so you can't just leave us:-) And you have a Grey, you always will-in your heart and mind. Mustn't abandon that and you can't just yet abandon the strong possibility that Murphy will come back. You/him still have time. There is time for everything and now is time to be persistent. Hang in there for Murphy, our flock member, we got your back! :-)

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!! What a great place to let her fly!! Where are all the people/dogs/children?

Hello! Nice to see you are making progress with your bird:-) What is her/his name? Do you have an avian vet? If yes, he can determine the sex of your bird. Is this your first bird? Why would you like to breed Greys? We all love photos! Could you post some of your birdie? :-D

Very pretty bird, but it looks like his lower beak is overgrown. The vet should take care of it. Make sure to buy toys for him to chew and correct his beak on his own in the future. Also a perch for nail and beak grooming could come useful. I bought my Zak a safety pumice perch. Other members have something else..a cement perch, sandy perch,...It is a personal choice, what you think might be the best for your bird..

I would just add that a bird reacts in a way that is logical to her/him in that particular moment. It is a very big clue because you may think nothing triggered some reaction in your bird but it sure did!! It may sound silly, but try to think/look from your birds perspective last few days when something started to change.. You could be amazed with what you discover. Good luck. PS: be patient with us,as well as with your birdie. I think I can say for most us that we don't reply to threads if we personally don't "feel" the question;-)

I would never say that a flighted parrot has too much freedom living in our apartments/houses because it is just a house and most of our flighted companions are restricted just to that space. Also, I don't think closing the door would solve the problem. It may be combined with something else in order to work. I don't understand what do you mean by "discipline". I figure that the best way to remodel behavior is through positive reinforcement. Reprogram his behavior by "distracting" him at that particular time (when you are heading off) by something else he enjoys. Maybe even to avoid the situation when he is out of the cage when you are leaving..? How come you don't put him in a cage while you go to work? The new thing I tried with Zakica, because he started screaming whenever I want to leave the apartment is not to bring myself in the situation that I have to force him into the cage. Half an hour before I go, I ofter (in his bowl) a bit of his favorite fruit and for it he goes inside (most of the time anyway). Then I try to be around the cage a bit more, maybe talk to him. His new toy is already hanging in the cage. So, just before I go to work I give him food to eat. I don't starve him so he wouldn't notice anything but food, instead, in the evening he eats as much as he wants and if I have to go out in the morning, he'll get his food just before I go to work. In this scenario I wouldn't let him out of the cage at all before work to avoid forcing him back in because I haven't trained him to go to his cage for positive reinforcement yet. If I am at home, and I know I'll have to go out at one point, I arrange everything so he'll get a bit hungry before I go so when he gets his food he is pretty preoccupied with it. I am also praising him, whenever he gets in the cage and starts playing/eating. My point is, I tried to create a moment when he'll be rewarded, in some way, for being distracted=quiet. It seems to be working. I'm really new at this, so I'm sure someone else, with more experience, will have even better examples:-) There might even be some holes in my method but I'm not aware of them yet. As I said before, someone with more experience in that field will have a more accurate advice to give;-)

I noticed that kind of behavior when I picked up my mobile phone. I don't talk much, but send messages quite a lot and I write down the alarms a lot, so when Zak sees me going for the cell phone he gets really pissed and lounges at the phone and me. He is really killing the phone at that point and won't hesitate to give me a hard bite too! :-S As I can't have this kind of behavior, for quite a while, I left the cell in the other room. I would even go in the other room to type messages. So as Zak didn't see a cell phone in quite a while I figured it would be safe to introduce it again in different circumstances. He obviously wanted the attention so when the cell beeps I'll go to Zak and talk to him, or cuddle,..-in other words, I would pay attention to him rather than to pick up the cell. I repeated this a lot. So now, when I have a cell in my hand and I see Zak lowering his head like he wants to cuddle I leave typing on the cell (but still holding it in my hand) and I cuddle Zakica and give him kisses. I am really sensitive to that. Why? Because Zak is testing me (and conditioning me a bit too, from time to time). The way I see it, he wants to check (when I'm typing) whether cell phone is more important to me than him, in that particular moment, and my reaction is definitely saying NO! We came to the point that when I am on my cell,typing or talking, Zak is not lounging anymore and I don't have to be cuddling him and kissing him all the time too for our arrangement to work:-) Maybe there is even a better way to get what you and your bird want but I am happy our arrangement worked out the way it did;-) Hope this helps;-)

I'm also, as many others, going back to this thread for good news. I'm so sorry you lost your baby but I'm sure he'll be back safe and sound very soon:-) You asked why he didn't come to you when he flew over your house. Well, as I read several times, many parrots don't know how to descend. It has to be trained. Maybe he wanted but he doesn't know how so he must figure out a way to come to you. Also, you said it began to be hot, so maybe he is hiding somewhere cooler+ he might not be making sounds as a instinctive reaction - so he wouldn't give a way his location to predators, but he might be very close to you. Just keep faith, be strong, cause that is what will bring him back to you. We all have our fingers crossed! Hang in there!!

I was talking just yesterday to my BF about that video!!! Lol

Great idea! Thank you:-)

Just to let you know.. Zak is not flying into windows any more-post-its are doing a fine job;-) The store from the first link for window decals didn't respond at all:-( I'll try ordering from e-bay..