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I have to laugh at Sukei's comments surrounding the situation with the fire. He sounds like such a character. My luck I'd meet him and he'd sit there like a lump on a log. I'm glad he has a couple people interested in taking over his care if needed. That's always a nice reassuring feeling. Besides worrying about my house burning down with all my birds inside, worrying about their future is something else I always have to fret over.

At the Lowes where I live they have a resident cat that stays in the outdoor garden area and also stays inside on that end of the building. I was there yesterday (with the GreycieMae in tow of course) and one of the workers there was telling me that when they would close down some evenings you could see the rats running across the floor occasionally. Apparently that all ended when the cat showed up. He's been there 8 months and is now the Lowes shop cat. I think that's so cool. I was talking to one of the workers there about the cat. We got off onto the subject of my personal rat problem in my barn and he said to get a cat and don't feed it. I didn't buy that advice but I do want one now. They don't eat much and he'd be taken care of.

I had them make it 207 cm long (~81 in). The standard length is for their wide version is 200cm. Our door opening is 80 inches too but I wanted it just a bit taller as I was mounting it on the wood frame above the door and wanted it to reach the floor. Their mounting hardware is junk. You'll have to buy something to mount it with when you get it. I used a french cleat hanger which works perfectly.

Holland Plastics imports them directly from the UK. Their shipping is incredibly fast too. Both of ours were custom size orders and all they asked was that we purchase the wide to accommodate for the extra length I wanted. We needed the wide anyway so they basically just added the length without any additional cost. Amazon Holland Plastics fly chain curtain P.S. our two dogs go in and out of this chain curtain without issue, one of them is a big mutt - got some Irish Wolfhound in him and he can't tear it up.

That's definitely a baby. 2.5 months is too young to wean though so I'd guess he's older than that. I see you got the oatmeal. Try putting some banana, cinnamon and a little flax if you have it. Mine love that stuff! I wouldn't worry about the amount he's eating as long as it's enough. Start worrying if they're NOT eating. Just keep working with him. They change a LOT as time goes on and their personality will come out. Things never happen overnight with a Grey unless it's their idea. And make sure you get lots of that baby time. They grow up before you know it and then all you have are the pictures/videos of when they were babies.

Over in Europe they call them 'fly chain curtains'. You can't buy them here in the states except through a couple of companies that bring them across the pond. I have two of them. I had to get them to stop our conure from zipping out the door. She's been out twice since I got her less than a year ago. She's a silent and extremely fast flyer so it's very easy for her to zip out that door. This chain curtain stopped her dead in her tracks!

I stopped feeling sorry for them when I kept going in my pigeon loft and finding half-eaten half-dead squabs still wriggling but no way to save the poor things. I will use any method available now and when I get my hands on one his day doesn't end nicely.

I was wondering if the birds finally had a successful mutiny over there in Parrotdise. Let me know how those cats work out. I was considering getting a mean ol barn cat to round up the rats around here and march them into the next world but I was reading some homesteading forum thread that they were kind of hit-or-miss. Some cats will go after rats, some will just set up rummy nights and get real chummy with them. Everytime I wipe out the population here, another one springs up within a few weeks.

Olive seems to be having a very interesting life there!!

She generally spends about 5 minutes playing in the ice and then will go sit on a perch and warm up, which doesn't take long at 100 degrees, then she's right back in it. Rinse and repeat until there's no ice left and that's when she will tire of it. Now what else you expect a girl to do when she's supervising Daddy on the circular saw?

It's HOT here in Texas. So GreycieMae has a few pointers on how to keep your cool during this global warming spell. If ever there's an ice age, we'll post another video on that too. 1. Make sure you have a working ice maker - very important 2. Make sure you have a slave to bring you the ice - very nice 3. Make sure you have an oblong baking dish - fits the fat fatty nice 4. When temps reach 95, combine all ingredients and jump in! P.S. don't share. sharing is NOT for the birds

I would say she is eating them. All of our birds leave a fine powder behind when they eat their pellets. I use those 'seed corrals' to put their pellets in and eventually there is nothing but poweder left. I leave that in place and they eventually will eat the powder too. Less waste this way. We feed Harrisons pellets and I've switched to the 'fine' size because when they would crack the bigger ones, the pellet parts would fly all over the place creating waste and a mess.

I had to laugh at that. First thing I do every morning when getting the babies up: GreycieMae is first because she's the queen, I rotate her off her perch lay her upside down in my hand and stuff my nose under her wing. Sometimes I give her a good farty noise and we both have a laugh, or I just soak up the warmth I feel from her little body and give her kisses all over her belly. I wouldn't be able to live if I had to keep her out of my face.

Keep in mind he's going to give you his best guess. Doctors practice, doesn't mean they know. I have a co-worker that landed in the hospital for a week and then on bed rest for nearly the exact same thing you mentioned. Her doctor's advice was to get rid of her budgies and her cockatiel as they were, in his opinion, the cause of this. She ended up re-homing the budgies as they were super messy and left feathers all over the house. However she couldn't part with the cockatiel. We're about 10 months out and she's doing ok. As you know a cockatiel is a heavyweight in the dust/dander department. Eventually we think with her it's the same as you, previous damage from a bout with bronchitis or pneumonia. I have the same issue to a lesser degree. I got bronchitis really bad from racing in the rain and cold and damaged my lungs. My first bout with it went 6 months of nearly non-stop coughing fits. Now I seem to get a recurrence about once a year. There is a test you can get that will tell you exactly what you are allergic too. I have no idea the accuracy, probably higher than a doctor's opinion.

Stories like this is why I hang out here: "Pedro, you better go outside and poop or it's going to be a LONG DAY!!!" BWAAHAAHAAAHAAHAA. I can only imagine. Seeing and hearing about everybody's Greys that talk always makes me jealous. Not sure I want a talker so bad, I think it's just another window into their little soul that I don't have. Some of this is hardly believable except I hang out on two FB Grey groups and I see this type of talking all the time. I was watching one this morning of a Grey explaining to her hooman how a dog barks and what noise a duck or something makes...then it busted out in song and dance and that's when I melted. They are so dang cute.

I seriously don't think you'll find anything better than that King's cage. Ive had my eye on that one since late last year but can't plunk down the change for it. That would surely be my choice. It's heavy though! That's the one drawback I've read about it.

GreycieMae says Happy 4th to all and don't forget... If it's hot where you live, make sure to eats your watermelons [VIDEO=youtube;--dhsF-C0vQ] [/VIDEO] And remember to stop and eats...dang its...smell the roses. Picked fresh from Mommy's rose garden next to GreycieMas's aviary

Haahaa...trying to sneak pizza in the house. I gave up long ago trying to sneak food. They have Xray vision and can see through walls, especially if there is cheese involved.

There was a time when I could give her a toss and she'd let the pen go and grab her tail...nowadays she doesn't care. She loves to be tossed. Need a new strategery.

Somebirdy wouldn't give my pen back this morning that she stole while I was making my list. I make lists and when I can't have my pen, I can't make lists...

Never fails...time to get the birds in and this is what I have to put up with. I'll be doing the latches to get in the two gates into the aviary and what do I hear? I hear the sound of toenails quickly scurrying to the top of the aviary where somebirdy gets into position to play keep-the-birdy-away. She loves loves loves to hang just tantalizingly out of reach. She's so rotten.

I finished cleaning the coffee grounds bucket and what else did I find in the bucket? Somebirdy thought they could hide but didn't realize she's flying a giant red flag

Thinking of you and Timber and hoping for the best.

Miss GrecieMae has a Laserbeams and Steak Knives death stare that she will use on Toby Toby, her hated lil brother the Caique. I sometimes wonder if Toby will explode in a cloud of feathers when Greycie is giving him That Look.

I checked in the bird room today and could not find my African Grey. However there was a big fat well-fed looking bat that I suspect ate my bird.