lil_tootie
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- 1/25/21
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- mariam hashemi
Hello everyone! I've introduced my lovebird here before but her name is Tootie and we got her over the summer, she was 4 weeks old when we brought her home. Her gender hasn't been confirmed but she seems to have very female-oriented behavior. She's about 7-8 months old now
She was an absolute precious little thing up until about 1-1.5 months ago. We built her a new play area made it all colorful and added new toys and the whole works but as time passed she plays on it less and less and is constantly clingy to my sister and my family.
She loves to burrow herself into our sweaters and shirts as well as any dark spaces she can get herself into (drawers, cabinets, bottom of newly emptied small trash bins etc.). She used to shred paper casually a couple months ago but now if she's not climbing all on us, she's shredding paper. The newspapers we've left at the bottom of her cage to collect her droppings are always shredded the next morning. She doesn't really play with any of her toys anymore. And it feels like she's not able to entertain herself anymore - especially if my sister is around. She's bonded the most with her (which makes sense, as my sister is the one that brought her home).
Its becoming a problem now because she won't self-entertain like she used to when she was out her cage. And she's constantly running around the kitchen area. Her pellet consumption is also very challenging because some days she'll eat no problem and she'll do it on her own. Other days we'll have to kinda make sure she eats. She doesn't eat in her cage at all despite purchasing something smaller to put next to her water bowl so she can dunk the pellets in the water. She does eat her seeds every night and sometimes veggies/fuits (if she's in the mood for it). Never says no to treats, just very picky with her pellets.
Sorry for the long message - my family and I are really struggling right now :/ its becoming debilitating and she's not letting anyone be comfortable. She'll bite hard if she doesn't get her way.
She was an absolute precious little thing up until about 1-1.5 months ago. We built her a new play area made it all colorful and added new toys and the whole works but as time passed she plays on it less and less and is constantly clingy to my sister and my family.
She loves to burrow herself into our sweaters and shirts as well as any dark spaces she can get herself into (drawers, cabinets, bottom of newly emptied small trash bins etc.). She used to shred paper casually a couple months ago but now if she's not climbing all on us, she's shredding paper. The newspapers we've left at the bottom of her cage to collect her droppings are always shredded the next morning. She doesn't really play with any of her toys anymore. And it feels like she's not able to entertain herself anymore - especially if my sister is around. She's bonded the most with her (which makes sense, as my sister is the one that brought her home).
Its becoming a problem now because she won't self-entertain like she used to when she was out her cage. And she's constantly running around the kitchen area. Her pellet consumption is also very challenging because some days she'll eat no problem and she'll do it on her own. Other days we'll have to kinda make sure she eats. She doesn't eat in her cage at all despite purchasing something smaller to put next to her water bowl so she can dunk the pellets in the water. She does eat her seeds every night and sometimes veggies/fuits (if she's in the mood for it). Never says no to treats, just very picky with her pellets.
Sorry for the long message - my family and I are really struggling right now :/ its becoming debilitating and she's not letting anyone be comfortable. She'll bite hard if she doesn't get her way.