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Sounds like Inara only has so much patience for hooman silliness.

6:30-7:00am - uncovered and taken from bird room to the kitchen. Give Dad lots of sweet beaks and thanks and kisses, be sweet as can be. Poop in the sink. +15 minutes - eat the breakfast Mom or Dad has made, in the feeding cage in the dining room. I don't much like my feeding cage but Dad says it keeps him sane because I like to drop my food over the edge of the counters, all of them. Plus it keeps me from fighting with my two feathered siblings. 1-1.5 hours of Dad time before he escapes from the house. Sometimes I play in the living room, swinging from my chain, rawwwrrring like a crazed pterodactyl, AND 10-20 exercise flights around the living room and kitchen to take some of the naughty out. OR Put out on the back covered porch in our feeding cages to enjoy the sun and fresh air while Mom and Dad make a bigger mess of the yard. 8:00-8:30 Dad leaves for work - Mom is supposed to be in charge but I, Greycie the Magnificent is in charge of my Queendom. I will either be left out on the porch while Mom slaves away making an even bigger mess or we'll come in and play and then off to the bird room for screeching, throwing toys from the toy basket, eats and more eats, my radio playing my favorite music. Mom will alternate putting one of us in our cage while the others are out as we can't seem to get along in threes, but in twos we're ok. Dad seems to have a way of monitoring us through the rotating eyeball on the desk and if I'm causing mayhem and mischief, Mom gets a call and busts it up pronto. 2:00-3:00'ish - quiet time. We seem to naturally settle and even snooze around this time, but not everyday. Some days mayhem and destruction must ensue throughout the afternoon, trashing the bird room. 4:00pm - Mom comes and gets all three of us and puts us on the counter. We stare at her knowing full-well she knows it's treat time. If the treat time seed mix doesn't come out fast enough, mayhem and destruction will befall the kitchen. So we get treats pronto. Then it's play time till Dad gets home. 6:00pm - DADS HOME!!!! I disown Mommy - no thanks given. 6:30pm -8pm - If it's Tues or Thurs Dad is onto the bike trainer in the spare bedroom with the radio pumped, A/C unit on full blast with a blower and I ride his shoulders or his handle bars screeching my head off to the music. GreycieMae loves her some RockNRoll while Dad's pounding out the watts. - M/W/F ride around on Dad's shoulder and do what he does. 8pm - put the littles to bed. GreycieMae gets 1 hour of sweet cuddles time. Sometimes I talk Mom into talking Dad into going to the Sonic and I steal bites from a vanilla cone. 9pm - I fight the good fight but end up in my sleeping cage anyway.

This one? Re-reading you post, I don't think that's the one you're after.

Is this a foraging toy for parronts?

If that's the worst you get...you're not too bad I once thought I was a cat person. All we've ever done is take in strays. I guess they usually turn out to be the worst cats. All the cats I've ever been around are selfish, useless beings. The one we have now takes the cake - shows up at 5:30-6:00am and 4:00-5:00pm for meal times and the rest of the time doesn't want to have anything to do with us. He hangs out behind the TV hidden all day - lazy baztard. My wife swears up and down they had good cats, mostly Persians, when she was little and they actually like being petted and attention. Once this guy is gone, unless a Raggamuffin shows up at my door, I'm done with cats. These birds are keeping us flat-out just taking care of the three of them.

We use stuffed animals to keep our Grey away from certain areas. But this only works of the other birds are not scared of the trolls. Works in our case due to a Grey's natural paranoia whereas our Jardines and especially our Caique are not afraid of much.

I wouldn't hesitate. Wish I could take mine to work, I'd get absolutely nothing done.

THis is great news...can't wait for the pics. Now to figure out what the solution was. I know you tried several remedies.

Volkman Super Hookbill All three of our birds love this stuff.

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?