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I absolutely believe letting her take Echo to her house is the next worst decision that can be made. I may have read that wrong but I read: you're going to let the dog sitter, who screwed this up in the first place, take the bird? Based on her reaction to thinking it was funny and posting it on FB leads me to believe this person needs to stick to dog walking. Your bird is now traumatized, I wouldn't screw with the situation any further. Let Echo sort herself out in her trusted place and she will come around. Also sounds like Echo may need a bit of socializing but I have no idea if it's too late for that. I have a best friend. If I told him not to do something more than once and he did it anyway traumatizing my baby like that he would find out real fast he's on my shit list. That's if I didn't punch him for it. edit: ok, you have a dog walker and a parrot sitter. I realized after I posted these are two different people. No idea on that one.

That picture of Isaac at the end of that rope is exactly what GreycieMae loves to do as well. Only we use a plastic chain with a big 'ol cow bell at the bottom. Man she can get going around on that thing and make a HUGE racket and then she'll suddenly launch off of it into a wild terrordactyl strafing across the house. If she can spook the two littles into the air she'll chase one of them like she's some sort of predatory hawk or something. Too big for her britches sometimes. That toy really gets her going.

I'm afraid there's no interest here, and not for lack of trying. I bought one of those small baking pumpkins and drilled a hole in the stem and hung it in the aviary. Couldn't wait to see the destruction. Came home - nothing. Drilled a few pilot holes. Came home again - couple of nibbles. It finally started to turn bad and I had to toss it to the chickens. I bet if I hung a framed Mona Lisa in there they'd destroy that. Idiots...

I just thought about this. We get up early, 3am-4am-5am and I don't want my birds being disturbed. So I will run a white noise maker just outside of their bird room door to mask the sound of my wife slamming the bathroom door, microwave door etc. You may try running something similar for Isaac to see if it stops his night frights. Similar concept to a night light only your dealing with the auditory situation if that's what's causing this. I use two different things: we have a space heater that has a fan-only setting and I also have a regular turbin fan that is super loud (as fans go) and either of those do a good job of masking any external noise. Might take a few nights for him to get used to it. Set it far away and bring closer over the course of a few nights. I think that will help with him sitting there focusing on every little sounds he hears. I also use this tactic in the living room during the day when they get startled and need settling - bust out the tunes to mask the scary quiet.

What your describing sounds more like a panic to me. GreycieMae will do that occasionally from external stimulus either visual or auditory - I never know what causes it as it's over by the time I get there. I believe we had an episode of it last night during the night because I went in to find her sitting on her food bowl. She never wakes up off her swing unless something has happened. We had a hawk attack them three times in the their aviary last night and I'm thinking she may have had some after affects from that (dreams maybe?!?).

Keep listening to at least the 0:50 mark. Love that amazon voice. So cute

Not sure if it's an option but in our bird room I had to cable the camera and radio in some pvc pipe with some 90degree elbows to the wall to keep them from custom wiring the place.

It's hard to get it right when your dense and not connected to the Grey way - so here's a little chart I stole off FB this morning to help:

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Rio, our Jardines, will hot foot it over to you if you're holding a camera or a phone. I have a hard time getting any video of him because the second he spots the camera, he's on it. He has removed 20+ keys off my wife's laptop and peeled the screen casing off of it too.

They'll generally figure out a way to take care of that feather, but I've also gone in with a pair of scissors and snipped it at the point where it's bent/snapped without any harm.

Oh man...is that thing safe for parrots? I've heard with reptile lighting you can burn birdy. Someone here did just that (Talon?) I can't seem to find the UVA/B requirement-differences between avian and reptiles or I'd check it.

Have you tried offering her the treats as a reward for stepping up? I.e. she has to step up in order to get the treat. She may immediately step back down but eventually she'll establish enough trust to step up.

I don't know what it is about Greys, but they truly do love ice in their bath water. The lady we got GreycieMae from told us to be sure and use ice in her bath water. So we use a big glass casserole dish with ice water. I can put that in their outdoor aviary where I don't have to lift a finger to clean up. I also put it on the counter next to the sink and she loves to jump off the top of the water faucet into the ice batch over and over and over again. Here's what we use:

We've offered up our wood blinds, wooden door jambs, wooden ceiling fan blades... The GreycieMae has decided these are for redecorating. The door jambs I finally gave in and just drilled plain pine boards over the jamb. Replaceable, this is good. GreycieMaes favorite toy is her swinging chain complete with Daddy there to give her pushes. It's so cute when she flies to it and hangs and makes a certain noise that I know means: "come push Daddy!"

I know that vinegar (white) is used to de-scale and clean fountains. So I'm just assuming here that apple cider vinegar has the same properties. And since people feed that to their birds, why not use it to keep the fountain clean. How much to use, I have no idea. Another idea I had was hydrogen peroxide. I've heard of that being used in birdy fountains (wild birds) to help kill algea. I'd get some vet advice on that one first before I would use it on my birds.

Some bounce, some don't. Toby doesn't hop but I saw a video the other day that showed a buy someone tapping their nails in front of a Caique and he started hopping. Been wanting to try that on him. Our Jardines hops?!?

I'd go with apple cider vinegar. Unless that can damage the pump. Would love to see what fountain you got. We want to get something for the outdoor aviary.

Yes, I get a grip on her and remove her from hurting me any further. I don't put up with any non-sense but remember, mine is a handfed baby with only issues that I've created. We know each other unlike a bird from an unknown background. I have had two birds that we re-homed and I was quite different with them. I would allow them to clamp down with little to no reaction from me just to try and gain trust.

Heeeheee, seen that when it went viral from the Caique FB page. One of those videos that I'll have to rewatch a hundred times. Never regret getting a Caique into our little family. They are so different from other birds. Here's today's viral video from the group if you haven't seen it. It's public so you shouldn't have trouble viewing it. They are such clowns.

Greycie will do this to me occasionally. She frequently holds a finger in her beak gently and that's usually a request to scratch with the other finger. I get stuck that way for a few minutes. But on occasion she will do just as you mentioned and turn on me. I don't put up with it for a second. Loud NOs and the other hand comes in for the rescue. I will not let her continue to gnaw clear to the bone which she will do. When they do that they are communicating but it will take someone else here to tell you what they are communicating. My guess is 'stop whatever the hell you're doing - now'.

Sterling likes anyone who is in touch with their Grey side - but that's about it.

We get 6-10 eggs a day. We do nothing but fight over them when cooked.

Between you and and danmcq and greytness I was wondering where some of you went. Been a while since I seen JeffNOK too. I'm sure I'm forgetting some other regulars...but that's just off the top of my head right now.

At least it wasn't a body. I never know what Nancy is going to say