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Cutest Bird Ever!!!
Can you believe it has been a year since I brought Gizmo home? It still baffles me sometimes that she is the same skittish bird I brought home last November. She has come so far, and I want to share just how much she has evolved!
- I used to have to wait at a very minimum 1 week, and sometimes up to 3, to put a new toy in her cage. Now, a couple of days at most. Many toys I place on the outside of her cage she starts chewing through the bars before I get a chance to rotate it in!
- Instead of just using rope perches, she now loves her pedicure perch, a heated perch, BOTR flagstone, flat pine perches, and even a cajeput perch! She used to be terrified of wood perches!
- When she first came here, she hardly played with any toys. She now demolishes thick pine, MPBT wood, plastic chain, bagels, vine, willow, wood beads, cork, and more. I am often greeted to a cage floor covered in pieces of toys!
- My scaredy bird who used to be glued to my shoulder now likes to fly around the bird room, hanging off of the atom, chewing on various toys hanging around the room. She is definitely much more confident now.
- New foods? Gizmo used to practically hide from them. Now she will try almost anything at least once. She still takes a bit to warm up to them, but she is at least trusting that I am not trying to poison her!
- Hands are still an issue; I am not able to pet her. But she steps up onto my wrist, and she will gently take food as small as a grain of quinoa from my finger without biting. In fact, she has only bit me once since she came here. She's really good about giving me a fair warning though
And of course...she is just so sweet and special to me.
She trusted me so readily and fully without having a reason to. She didn't have to, and she still doesn't, but she continues to give me more of herself and shows me all the time that she is able to push on beyond the harms of her past. I think of how far she has come in just one year, and my heart swells to be able to be a witness to it.
Gizmo showed me that it is in re-homed adult birds that true love of captive parrots lives!! She has taught me how even a "broken" bird can heal, and that patience and mutual trust are at the very core of letting a bird come out of their shell.
There is not a day that goes by that I do not think of @webchirp and silently thank her for giving me the opportunity to be both a teacher and a student in the School of Gizmo
And of course, the photos from the past year.
On our way home!
Day 3, she decided to fly to me and start our friendship:
- I used to have to wait at a very minimum 1 week, and sometimes up to 3, to put a new toy in her cage. Now, a couple of days at most. Many toys I place on the outside of her cage she starts chewing through the bars before I get a chance to rotate it in!
- Instead of just using rope perches, she now loves her pedicure perch, a heated perch, BOTR flagstone, flat pine perches, and even a cajeput perch! She used to be terrified of wood perches!
- When she first came here, she hardly played with any toys. She now demolishes thick pine, MPBT wood, plastic chain, bagels, vine, willow, wood beads, cork, and more. I am often greeted to a cage floor covered in pieces of toys!
- My scaredy bird who used to be glued to my shoulder now likes to fly around the bird room, hanging off of the atom, chewing on various toys hanging around the room. She is definitely much more confident now.
- New foods? Gizmo used to practically hide from them. Now she will try almost anything at least once. She still takes a bit to warm up to them, but she is at least trusting that I am not trying to poison her!
- Hands are still an issue; I am not able to pet her. But she steps up onto my wrist, and she will gently take food as small as a grain of quinoa from my finger without biting. In fact, she has only bit me once since she came here. She's really good about giving me a fair warning though
And of course...she is just so sweet and special to me.
She trusted me so readily and fully without having a reason to. She didn't have to, and she still doesn't, but she continues to give me more of herself and shows me all the time that she is able to push on beyond the harms of her past. I think of how far she has come in just one year, and my heart swells to be able to be a witness to it. Gizmo showed me that it is in re-homed adult birds that true love of captive parrots lives!! She has taught me how even a "broken" bird can heal, and that patience and mutual trust are at the very core of letting a bird come out of their shell.
There is not a day that goes by that I do not think of @webchirp and silently thank her for giving me the opportunity to be both a teacher and a student in the School of Gizmo
And of course, the photos from the past year.
On our way home!
Day 3, she decided to fly to me and start our friendship:
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