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Hi all. We boarded our two sun conures last week as I needed to travel for a surgical procedure. We adopted Mori and Pincus right before the Pandemic and subsequent lock down and have never spent a night apart from them in almost 2 years.
They were there for 6.5 days. I know that when you board an animal they don’t get the same attention or have the same routine and never having owned birds before I knew that there would be some sort of pissy behavior on their part when we picked them up. They are not acting like their normal conure selves. They are super skittish, noises that never bothered them before scare them now, they don’t seem interested in their toys, they are screaming more than normal and they keep sitting on their perches staring at me. They still want kisses and will climb on me when prompted but they aren’t the same as when we dropped them off. The vet staff assured me that they seemed to settle in pretty quickly the first day we dropped them off and the staff said they would walk past their cage and interact with them.
Is this normal behavior after boarding? If so how long until they are their normal goofy selves?
They were there for 6.5 days. I know that when you board an animal they don’t get the same attention or have the same routine and never having owned birds before I knew that there would be some sort of pissy behavior on their part when we picked them up. They are not acting like their normal conure selves. They are super skittish, noises that never bothered them before scare them now, they don’t seem interested in their toys, they are screaming more than normal and they keep sitting on their perches staring at me. They still want kisses and will climb on me when prompted but they aren’t the same as when we dropped them off. The vet staff assured me that they seemed to settle in pretty quickly the first day we dropped them off and the staff said they would walk past their cage and interact with them.
Is this normal behavior after boarding? If so how long until they are their normal goofy selves?