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Sounds like she needs her own purse with a checkbook in it. Of course you will have to make out like it's your new purse with a checkbook. Our birds are infatuated with the laptop. I've contemplated getting them one to tear up but too many dangers there.

I'm sure this is old and has made the rounds but I've never seen this. I swear it looks just like GreycieMae when I catch her getting into stuff in our kitchen. Just last night I'm out of my chair and find her quietly pacing the counter looking for something to get into. Day before it was a stainless salad bowl we found her in.

We could use your skills around here. I have three busy beaks with busy feets.

GreycieMae trained me not to wear a shirt in the house unless I want a hole in the shoulder. Therefore I have a range of t-shirts that are for house use only. Also, she has trained me to make nice little beaded necklaces using twine so that she is not bored to tears and reduced to going after my watch, my buckle, my ear or other things she must use to curb her urge to chew. Now we are having issues with the ear plugs I choose to wear when she is on my shoulder. Since she has started the ear-piercing shrieks that she learned from my damn Caique, I have to protect my hearing as she has deafened me temporarily on several occasions. This is where we are currently at odds. Constant NOs seems to be working as she is getting less and less interested in trying to get them out of my ears.

Is this Wendy out in Weatherford (or somewhere around that area). I know she has macaws and free-flys them. She is the breeder we got Greycie from.

I have several out there already: Shows a lot of her natural self - *BEWARE LONG*

I keep forgetting about this with Greycie...she absolutely loves being chased. We have this game we play. My chair in the living room is just around the corner out of sight from the kitchen. Greycie will throw a stainless measuring cup off the counter and crash and bang it and wait for me to come tearing around the corner to get her. She hunkers and runs around the sink while I chase her. She reminds of a little buzzard when she does that. I need to bust out the camera and film it.

Not sure you can train them to lay on their back. They either will do it naturally or not. I thought it would be cool to have one that did it too but I waited until she naturally did it on her own and took advantage of the behavior. It started with hanging upside down on a rope which she did on her own. I cupped her a few times and held while she continued to play. She just naturally took to it. This was at 4-5-6 months old. Now she will roll over on her own even when I'm not playing with her or if I am she will grab my finger and try to pull my hand over her while she's play wrestles. We caught her last night laying upside down in a stainless salad bowl. She's a nut.

Greycie goes through the gamut. She has periods where she's calm and preening but she also has those times (a lot lately) where she's sitting there making all the most annoying screeches, ear piercing shrills, caw-caws etc. We really want to get our aviary setup so we can throw her out there to give us some relief. She also has a fun behavior that seems to be getting less and less these days where she will play with stuff and sit there and go through her few words/noises that she knows. Last night she found the stainless salad bowl and was in that playing peek-a-boo on top of the fridge. It was very cute. One thing she has always done is gets ROWDY! She will get into modes where she will do her pterrordactyl flights complete with the 'rawwrrrsss' and then hit the end of her play chain and continue flapping going round and round and round. She loves that toy. Also wrestling off the back of my chair is one of her favorites too. She will come over and try to get me to wrestly by grabbing hold of the material with one talon, then laying on her side and lifting the other in a sort of fist hoping she'll get a response out of me.

I'm of the opinion it's fun for the first few minutes until reality sets in. In Greycie's case she was seized upon by the neighborhood crows that continually harass the hawks around here. I'm sure they gave her a warm welcome as I saw them swirling around her as she flew to the horizon. When she found us, she was ALL TOO EAGER to get us over to the tree (it was dark) where she launched out of the tree in the dark (highly unusual) and flew around until she bumped into my wife who was calling her. She really wanted to go home. I remember she was starving and very thirsty. No way that's fun.

I don't know of any cat rescues here in DFW.

Like! What kind of wire did you end up using? Looks like 1"x2"? Gauge?

I can't recall if Gracie is a flyer? How active is she? I'm hoping high activity levels help prevent plucking. Seeing way too many accounts of these Greys picking out of the blue like this. But then I see people with Greys that have never plucked. Another thing I'm hoping is that less cage time will also help. We have a bird room and I can tell our birds actually enjoy it in there as they will get antsy if not taken back there soon enough. It's like kindergarten rompa room.

How old is Maalik? I know you said terrible ones but how close to two is he? GreycieMae (20mos) was turning bratty a few months before we brought Rio home (Memorial Day) and then she kicked it up a notch when he came home. She has since taken up another notch and like you, I am very close to banning her from my shoulder. She bites the hell out of me sometimes, seems to take joy in a high-pierced screeches directly in my ear and constantly harasses the other birds. She doesn't win again the Caique as they are master fighters but Rio is so gentle he just cowers down and will take abuse. I'm trying real hard right now to be extra patient with her as I'm hoping this will settle down over time, probably a long time. One thing I have found is that when things are routine, she's her normal little turd self. So I will then take her on a bike ride or outside riding around on my shoulder watching me do stuff which seems to adjust her a bit and we can settle down.

What a cutie. Looks like she has had a trim. Our Jardines breeder used the same type of trim. It really works well.

Could it be anything to do with losing Bogart?

My gosh what a sweet baby....

Dave - that's funny. She probably refers to you as 'those people with that weird bird'. HAAHAA... GreycieMae doesn't say much but she does seem to know when to giggle, say 'Good [boy|girl]' and her favorite usually with impeccable timing is her fart noise. The funniest is when one of us is sort of scolding her and she opens that sweet little beak and out comes a fart noise. She knows we can't resist how cute she is.

There are tons of trees in that picture, it's just zoomed way out. She flew pretty far. The straight line from house to found is about 1.5 miles. As you can imagine we searched the quadrant area where she was 'last seen' (including above the picture boundary) exhaustively - with cars, motos and finally bikes. The place she was found was only our first pass and was only on a whim because I was sure I wouldn't find her in that direction. It's so amazing she found our little bicycle trail and parked her butt in a tree next to it and just waited.

I never thought to make a map of our 'little outing'...frigging naughty naughty...

I think they really learn something when they are out and about. GreycieMae acted like a weirdo the first couple of days and we started to worry about her a bit. She did come right back around to her old self but now she will get over-anxious when I or my wife leaves the house. She will make a really sharp whistle if she knows we're headed for the door. Once out she will call to us like we call the dogs, assuming she is trying to get us to come back in. She also does this when we go to the store and one of us goes in. She will call to the one who gets out of the car (someone always stays with her in the car). So these days if one of us leaves, the other takes GreycieMae into the bathroom where she's easily distracted while the other disappears. If we both leave, they're all in the bird room unawares anyway.

This is really sad. Bogart was almost the same age as Rio. These little Jardines are such sweet gentle little souls it really hurts to lose them.

Not sure when it gets easier. The initial sting is gone but I find myself always missing our Raven. We were in Lowes yesterday and they had the little plants that my wife bought the day Raven passed and planted over her. I don't know how she found a plant that so much reminds me of a bird. The leaves are scalloped just like a Jardines and it has little orange blossoms on top - just like a Jardines. Sometimes I feel her little spirit is in that plant. I have her little plant and we have another little Jardines that acts so much like she did. I guess that's how we're dealing with it. We still miss her and both of us get caught with a tear every now and then... In one month it will be 1 year.

I typically don't log on to GF on the weekends but the case of Brutus missing has been bothering me some. I have to be careful with the FB groups too because lots of missing birds there along with their pictures. These poor guys get out and I'm sure it's amazing fun at first until reality sets in and they get scared and hungry and have no idea what to do. It's sad. So relieved this turned out the way I have been hoping. You now belong to a small and exclusive club that you don't really want to belong to: you got your birdy on the lamb back. If anything it does really help cement how special these babies are to you. I was just kissing on Greycie a couple of days ago telling my wife I still can't believe how lucky we were to get this special girl back. She's such a gift.

Sorry to hear. I have also been begging to have the toilet lids down but am getting little response until I guess we lose one that way.