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Cracker Time!

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Awesome!
 

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I couldn't tell. Did she find any?
 

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I saw how he made the ball swing a time or two.

Secret gets pretty violent from time to time. Kind of scary when that happens and I worry that she'll hurt herself on a toy.

How is your relationship going with Cracker? Does your fellow interact with Cracker?
 

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He will hold hands with George through the bars. He will finger wrestle with him and nibble (kisses?) on his bare head, he will let George rub his beak between his thumb and fingers, he will let George rub his belly. All the things the girl said he did with his previous owner. Only through the bars of the cage. He wants no one in his space, though he's not aggressive like Oscar about it. He just goes as far away as he can and gets really nervous. As for me, he'll take food from me as gentle as a lamb, but if I extend one finger into his cage I get the growl and the step back. He has bowed his head against the bars for me like he does with George when he wants a head scratch, but when I move my hand towards him he changes his mind.

I had thought he'd prefer the rubber ball with the crinkle paper, but, of course not. He had that plastic ball going today. It was like he was playing tether ball. I worried about it too. He can bob and weave though!

He and I are enjoying some Opera music. He's a big fan of Pavarotti. He's learning "Ave Maria ".
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Secret is accessible thru the bars of the cage too. I learned early on NOT to hold claw/finger with that bird. She'd just grab the finger and yank to the cage to bite me.

After all this time she will bend her head while on my lap but I ALWAYS have that T stick there between us. Amazons can do damage quickly. Thankfully after all these years she doesn't do severe damage.... but I always remember she could have drawn blood if she wanted to.

You might want to look for a paper based toy for Cracker to wrestle with. Secret had one of those at first but I finally removed it because I was worried she'd get hurt from it. (Probably about the time that @JLcribber told me I was worse than a worry wart).

Anyway, don't forget you're in the honeymoon stage right now with Cracker.
 

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(Probably about the time that @JLcribber told me I was worse than a worry wart).
I honestly believe that the majority of problems I have with my birds is from being the world's biggest over-protecting, life inhibiting, obsessive worry wart! With Miyetti I didn't know anything so, other than keeping the dogs away from him, 28266_20241021095139261.jpg he did as he pleased (all over the apartment). When I got TD I had learned so much, then I joined the Avenue and learned so much more. You should see what I go through before I have out of cage time with any of the birds. Covering everything, unplugging and removing electrical things (TD's a fan of wire chewing), vacuuming, covering mirrors, etc. I'm exhausted before I ever get them out of their cage! The bird room was helping with that somewhat, but now it's Cracker's quarantine place. Oh, well, it's always something!

I do have this other ball for Cracker. He doesn't go to it, but I think I'll move it to where the plastic one is and he'll have to use it or no pumpkin seed hunt!

How long have you had Secret?
 

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I joined in November 2012

I got both the amazons before that and I think I lurked for a while before joining the forum.

I'll go see if I can find my first post....
 

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You won't believe this!!! My first post!!!

 

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You won't believe this!!! My first post!!!

Very interesting responses to your post. Sadly I see some of the stores mentioned are no longer here. One reply got my attention. Oscar loves to drape and strand of cotton rope with a wooden block on the end over his shoulder. We call it his cloak of invisibility bcuz he gets mad at it if you talk to him while he's wearing it! It's really cute and hard to describe, but I worry he could wrap it around his neck... So I shortened them... But I still worry. These were taken before I shortened the rope. 20240716_104401~2.jpg 20240603_091514~2 (1).jpg 20240614_153120~2.jpg
 

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MC used to cuddle a leather parrot pocket. I really miss him....
 

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Look at post #3 in this thread for MC's cuddle


 

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What an exceptionally cutie of a bird. I'm sorry he's gone.
 

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That's just like my Secret! Just like!!!
 
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