Kiwibird08
Jogging around the block
Today is Kiwi's 8th adoption day! We will never know his actual age or hatch day, but we were told he was "about 10" when we adopted him, so we counted him as an even 10 and have gone up from there. He may now be a "legal adult", but he will always be my special little guy! Celebrations began this morning with a yummy dish of warm mash and lots of orange slices, with oranges being one of his favorite fruits. He also got an abundance of various nuts in which to forage in his "new" toys. The money fairy kinda passed us over this year, so unlike years past, no fancy new toys or 'gadgets', but I did make him some "new" designs out of toy parts we already had and hung up a bunch of his favorite rattles. I also re-arranged his upper perches and swing.
In all the years we have had Kiwi, both before and after he was socialized and trained, one trait this bird has always possessed is utter fearlessness! While many birds are pretty traumatized by a cage re-arrange or need time to adjust to a new toy, one must practically beat Kiwi off with a stick to even be able to hang new things or re-do the cage. He is just so curious and intrigued and excited by everything which enters his domain. I barely got my hand out of the cage before the impatient little beastie barged in to check out the new layout and get down to he business of playing with his new toys. He's such a character and I love him so very much!
I typically find a variety of vile produce in my dish which I am expected to eat (grumble grumble), but this morning I got nothing but oranges! Woohoo!
My 'new' toys!
(filled with paper and beads and baubles he likes to play with)
These toys MUST be played with IMMEDIATELY!!!
In all the years we have had Kiwi, both before and after he was socialized and trained, one trait this bird has always possessed is utter fearlessness! While many birds are pretty traumatized by a cage re-arrange or need time to adjust to a new toy, one must practically beat Kiwi off with a stick to even be able to hang new things or re-do the cage. He is just so curious and intrigued and excited by everything which enters his domain. I barely got my hand out of the cage before the impatient little beastie barged in to check out the new layout and get down to he business of playing with his new toys. He's such a character and I love him so very much!
I typically find a variety of vile produce in my dish which I am expected to eat (grumble grumble), but this morning I got nothing but oranges! Woohoo!
My 'new' toys!
(filled with paper and beads and baubles he likes to play with)
These toys MUST be played with IMMEDIATELY!!!
those toys are awesome!
Hope you have many more happy years together. You can tell he is very happy and well loved!
I think Mr. Kiwi just earned himself a new nickname.
). They are not always connected like that either, just needed a big toy for that corner so I hooked them up. Kiwi is really gentle with his toys actually and while he loves playing, it is very gentle and nondestructive playing (case in point, we have wood blocks and beads I've been washing and recycling into new toys for as long as we've had him with hardly a nibble mark on them
).