Green Cheek Perch Potato

[microjoes]

Hello...

I am owned by a 1 yr old green cheek. She's a real perch potato. She spends most of the day on a stand in the living room. She is so lazy..... The only time she likes to interact is when I take her into the bathroom for showers and a peek at the mirror.

She is so bad I took the food and water dishes off the perch and moved them to the lower tray so she would have to at least work for her food. She hates all forms of toys except paper string.

Any suggestions on engaging my lazy bird. This is the first GCC I have owned.

 

[Cynthia & Percy]

since she likes paper put some of her food in paper cups and fold twist the top shut do some while she is watching so she knows some thing is inside make her work for some of her food

 

[expressmailtome]

If she has a favorite treat put it in a clear foraging toy such as this: FORAGING DRAWERS NEW! - EDUCATIONAL & FORAGING by Bird Paradise . It is very simple for the bird to figure out what is needed to be done to get the treat. You can then work from there. It does not even have to be a treat. It could be seed or something similar. I just said treat so as to get her into wanting to use the toy.

Matt

 

[microjoes]

Thank You!!!

I did as suggested and I also found that keeping her a tad hungry was enough to get her off the perch looking for food.

 

[SallyPax]

Good luck with her!

 

[microjoes]

Thanks, she seems a little better and now uses one of those Penplax foraging cubes, but only if I put the good stuff in it.

 

[hotfoot jackson]

Do you play games with her when she's out? My BE2 Dusty can get a bit porky in winter, so I have to get her going...we play fetch the ball with bellbals meant for cats(supervised toy only) chase the empty coke bottle (and bite me if I go for my turn), and rather than carry her about I make her walk about when we go about our chores in the house.