Watson (GCC male) is so quiet and sweet and so attached to Cricket (GCC male) but lately Cricket is just obsessed with Cocoa (female Amazon!).
I watch them carefully but Cricket keeps leaving poor Watson to fly to Cocoa and tries to get right up beside her. Once, under very close supervision, the two of them even rubbed beaks. Cricket, the little Romeo, head bobs and snakes his neck at Cocoa. Surely he doesn't .Think he can be romantic with her!? He is (was?) bonded to poor Watson. Now Watson, who can't fly seems left behind.
The boys share a cage and where they were once inseparable, I now sometimes see them apart. Not always, but there has been a shift.
Cocoa for the most part is oblivious to them.
I only brought Cocoa home because I thought the boys had such a strong bond. Even the vet commented on it. And I never thought a female Amazon would change that.
I might be reading too much into it but it feels like something has changed and I feel so sad. It is my fault. To let them out separately would cut their time out in half on weekdays when I work.
I feel like I messed up and let them down.
I watch them carefully but Cricket keeps leaving poor Watson to fly to Cocoa and tries to get right up beside her. Once, under very close supervision, the two of them even rubbed beaks. Cricket, the little Romeo, head bobs and snakes his neck at Cocoa. Surely he doesn't .Think he can be romantic with her!? He is (was?) bonded to poor Watson. Now Watson, who can't fly seems left behind.
The boys share a cage and where they were once inseparable, I now sometimes see them apart. Not always, but there has been a shift.
Cocoa for the most part is oblivious to them.
I only brought Cocoa home because I thought the boys had such a strong bond. Even the vet commented on it. And I never thought a female Amazon would change that.
I might be reading too much into it but it feels like something has changed and I feel so sad. It is my fault. To let them out separately would cut their time out in half on weekdays when I work.
I feel like I messed up and let them down.