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Post by roxhum on Jan 8, 2014 3:07:28 GMT
I loved seeing your cages and set up. Mistletoe is so sweet. I need a bigger cage for my two..
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Post by Pammy on Jan 8, 2014 4:58:50 GMT
Mistletoe suddenly flew (clipped kind of flying) to me from his cage tonight!! The family was gathered here in our living room, so we had witnesses. Felt pretty AWESOME! He slammed into me all clumsy and fluttery and cute, and it was so precious. Natey said, "How em I gunna sit on you if Mistletoe's sitteen on you?" And I replied that there's room for both. Natey snuggled back in and Mistletoe settled down in his spot against the side of my neck. Pure joy!
Mistletoe also prefers to sit on my shoulder without a poo towel. He keeps moving to the towel-less shoulder and won't settle down until I ditch the towel. Except for the poo, I prefer no towel too. Not only is the towel bulky, but I enjoy feeling Mistletoe's sweet little warmness through my shirt. It makes me feel emotionally closer to him. I guess I'll just have to deal with baby wipes for the first two poops and then a clean shirt after the third "offense."
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Post by lisamarie on Jan 8, 2014 5:14:24 GMT
You get used to the poop after awhile. Don't know how i feel about that i know so much about it, but hey it's the truth!
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Post by dianapalmer on Jan 8, 2014 14:31:38 GMT
I have noticed that when Emma is set to poop she backs up several steps. She usually poos on top of her cage. She's never done it on my shoulder. She will, however, fly from my shoulder to my laptop and poop there. She's not been on my shoulder much since Christmas tho.
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Post by roxhum on Jan 8, 2014 16:10:56 GMT
Oh sweet Mistletoe took his maiden flight. I can't help it but there just seems something so wrong about birds flying in the house. In my fantasies I make a wire cover canopy over my yard and they can go outside and really fly.
Meanwhile Natey sounds very sweet. He wanted to make sure he didn't have to give up his mamas lap to the new baby in the house.
Ooh, hijacking thread. I am home sick today so I am trying to watch and asses Sweetie to see how she maneuvers the cage. She doesn't hop from perch to perch, she climbs. I want to see how much she relies on the horizontal bars because the cheaper flight cages have less horizontal bars and although larger may handicap Sweetie a little. So anyway Sweetie keeps moving around and I keep missing the action. Pearl was eating and Sweetie was on a rope perch above her head. Just now I had to take a double take because when I looked up they had completely changed positions. Sweetie is so funny, she is going back and forth between food bowls. Oh my, they did it again, I saw it that time.
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Post by roxhum on Jan 8, 2014 17:09:54 GMT
since I already hijacked this thread, I didn't realize how busy these two were since whenever I check on them they are just sitting there. What I now realize is sitting there is constantly changing. Also they both use the horizontal bars, a lot, and they need a bigger cage. I found one. Now I need to find the money.
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Post by Pammy on Jan 8, 2014 19:10:14 GMT
Finding the cage and finding the money are two very different things! I saved all summer last year for my cage. Now what I want to save for this year is a bigger fish tank. PetsMart in the city has a 150-gallon that's really nice. But whew, it's super expensive. Now I just have to slow down on buying bird toys so I can save my money.  Natey IS very sweet. Thank you.  He's an exceptionally cuddly, funny, adorable little man cub. I don't know how it's possible that he's already 4. Slow down, time! Slow down! Quit trying to steal my baby from me. Diana, you're so lucky that Emma doesn't poop on you! Mistletoe is a little poop monster! He poops every few minutes. Sorry you're sick today, Roxhum, but glad you have such fun entertainment provided by Sweetie & Pearl. They really are so much fun to watch, aren't they? I have to admit that I get distracted and start watching my birds when I'm watching TV with my hubby or even when we are having family scriptures before bedtime. Whoops! They're just so silly, my eyes can't help drifting over to the cage. My budgies, including the two who are fully flighted, the one who is correctly clipped, and the one who can't fly at all, climb like crazy all over the cage. They climb on the vertical bars with just as much agility as they climb on the horizontal bars. Zip, zip, zip. Sometimes I even say, "Kringle, you silly bird, you can fly!" It's funny to watch Mistletoe climb on the cage bars. He's a baby and clumsy, and also so much bigger than my budgies. He looks so awkward and darling climbing on the bars. Sometimes he's not sure where to reach next, nor whether he should reach with his left foot, his right foot, or his beak. I can practically see the confusion dripping from his face. Right now he's trying to figure out how to get off of his triangle swing, even though it's only about 6 inches off the floor of the cage. Sweet baby bird. |
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Post by lisamarie on Jan 8, 2014 19:31:58 GMT
Argh i need a bigger fish tank also >.< my goldfish are huge!!
Lucy is a poop monster also! And yes, Diana she backs up a few steps before she poops so it's kind of my warning lol but i don't even mind the poop anymore! Sounds so gross saying it
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Post by Pammy on Jan 8, 2014 20:18:08 GMT
Guess I'm gonna be buying baby wipes for all eternity. First five kids, and now a little poop monster of a "papatiel."
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Post by rdkntriker on Jan 8, 2014 20:42:46 GMT
on fish tanks look at craigs list and ebay. Many people get them and then not like careing for the fish.
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Post by lisamarie on Jan 8, 2014 21:21:15 GMT
on fish tanks look at craigs list and ebay. Many people get them and then not like careing for the fish. I worry it's not safe to buy other people's tanks.. Is it safe? Like I would probably want to buy my own, new filter and heater but of course those are the most expensive things. Or am I being ridiculous and it's actually ok to use other people's used filter? (But you don't know how old it is... And it could short out at any time... Or you don't know what filth it's been filtering..) gah, paranoia!! |
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Post by rdkntriker on Jan 8, 2014 21:26:53 GMT
LOL Lisa you made me smile. I would clean everything very good, and clean out the filter. Other then that I would not be worried. You need to let a tank run for a bit anyways to get it stable.
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Post by lisamarie on Jan 8, 2014 21:50:38 GMT
Well I'll have to look into it. My brain is fried with my mental to do list that isn't really getting done
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Post by Emily on Jan 9, 2014 2:09:53 GMT
Ahhh! I so badly want to get the huge flight cage you have, Pammy. I would love to be able to keep all of my birds in one cage! Mistletoe is such a cutie and he has SUCH a baby face!
Also---yes Pammy, I find baby wipes are the key to cleaning up poo as well! I'll always have a stock of them even after Sophia is potty trained.
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Post by Pammy on Jan 9, 2014 2:21:27 GMT
Seriously, I don't know how I survived without baby wipes before I had children. They are so convenient for so many uses.
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He's an exceptionally cuddly, funny, adorable little man cub. I don't know how it's possible that he's already 4. Slow down, time! Slow down! Quit trying to steal my baby from me. 
