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AMAZON OVERLOAD! INITIATING: COOLING SYSTEM! Brrrrrr (So cute and amazonny? lol)
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Just one answer to every question on this forum, every single problem or complication or story or whatever! BIRDS... They are tough yet intelligent and whats the word, bi-polar. 
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Danita, stop fairy dusting that bird. 
Get him a small java tree or some kinda stand, put a few toys and food on it and walk away.
I don't have a grey but he is not like the toos or Kiwi. My amazons don't like to be slaved over. If I look at Echo at a time he is content and not wanting me he gets mad. Let him out but give him space. They don't want to be waited on hand and foot.
Get him a small java tree or some kinda stand, put a few toys and food on it and walk away.
I don't have a grey but he is not like the toos or Kiwi. My amazons don't like to be slaved over. If I look at Echo at a time he is content and not wanting me he gets mad. Let him out but give him space. They don't want to be waited on hand and foot.
Java tree! Yes and a boing. ..'zons are so acrobats. New activity would be beneficial!Danita, stop fairy dusting that bird.
Get him a small java tree or some kinda stand, put a few toys and food on it and walk away.
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Binky is cage free and lives on an atom. Loves it!
Perfect!
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Really? Mine would be finding a way to drop and roam...
That sounds like a simple solution.Danita, stop fairy dusting that bird.
Get him a small java tree or some kinda stand, put a few toys and food on it and walk away.
I don't have a grey but he is not like the toos or Kiwi. My amazons don't like to be slaved over. If I look at Echo at a time he is content and not wanting me he gets mad. Let him out but give him space. They don't want to be waited on hand and foot.
You don't know my husband and his issues with holes in the ceiling!
Hmmm, I could squeeze a stand in the middle of the room. The problem is, I have 7 birds and two of Aleta's stands. When some are out, they have to be separated.
I make things so complicated!
The Toos are friendly and they will visit everyone, but no one will have it and they will get hurt. Sid has actually killed another bird.
Newman-Timneh has so much hate in his heart that he can't be within 2 feet of anyone.
Cyd-Congo is a roamer, baseboard chewer, she has quite a bit of hate in her heart and will only let the Toos near her supervised.
Kiwi macaw has to be on her own because she doesn't like other birds.
Cujo-Amazon seems to like other birds but no one but the other Amazon will have it. He doesn't seem keen on the Toos
Sid-Amazon has killed so I can't have him near anyone really but Cujo.
So as you can see every bird needs to be supervised when they are out. I only have so much me.
I need 7 of Aleta's stands!
Really?
Never had an amazon that 'dropped & roamed' , the ones we raised, and the foster amazons, never attempted to be on the floor. They had Java trees, climbing nets & ropes everywhere.
Our CAG's, on the other hand, were 'floor walkers'. Had to get creative to keep them from wandering.
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Mine are clipped because I don't want a flying face attack (hubby would insist on a new home and my heart would break). Despite that, Secret routinely flies down from the small tree stand that I bought at the first Sidewalk Sale here on the avenue. She does a slow walk these days, not a rapid "here I come".
I gave Secret a bath after MC, came back to discover MC on Secret's stand looking as pleased as punch.
Lately during training when I put MC on the floor to do a step up to my hand.....he's bolting. First I thought it was the coffee table drawing him (metal rails under glass)...now I know better. Latest was to a wheel on his cage that he tried to regurgitate to.
So.....they're out, I'm close. Best safety I know of.
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Sid, wouldn't come out of his cage for a week and a half, decided he would come out. Then he wouldn't go back in. He slept on top of his cage for two nights.
Cujo who pays his rent with cute, has gotten a little silly. He loves it when I talk to him. I have touched his toes through the cage bars and his beak. He isn't fond of it, but he isn't running away in terror like he used to
Screaming still, but not where it was a bit ago, where he was beside himself.
Sid, wouldn't come out of his cage for a week and a half, decided he would come out. Then he wouldn't go back in. He slept on top of his cage for two nights.
Cujo who pays his rent with cute, has gotten a little silly. He loves it when I talk to him. I have touched his toes through the cage bars and his beak. He isn't fond of it, but he isn't running away in terror like he used to
Screaming still, but not where it was a bit ago, where he was beside himself.
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And so it begins....
You need to find "THE" thing that Sid adores to get him back in the cage.
Secret? It's a sprig of shredded cheese for that bird. Put a little piece of shredded cheese across the perch and that bird will run you over to get in the cage. It's like Secret knows it's bad for her so grab it before it's taken back.
You need to find "THE" thing that Sid adores to get him back in the cage.
Secret? It's a sprig of shredded cheese for that bird. Put a little piece of shredded cheese across the perch and that bird will run you over to get in the cage. It's like Secret knows it's bad for her so grab it before it's taken back.
Do you know what happened to Newman, Sid and Cyd that made them so unhappy? Bless you for having those uhm, challenging birds. It really makes me sad when people (not you, of course) have made birds hate people. There are not many people who would give such birds safe haven.
I have a big smile just seeing that look in Cujo's eye. I've seen that same naughty gleeful expressin in W's eyes many a time. Cujo is so so handsome. Wasabi has a macaw cage, and it's also a bit of a challenge to see if he will go back in on his own or if he accepts some help and thanks me with a bite.
