Good job Skittles! Just be careful not to let her start getting obsessive because Blu is still weaving crazed and mean. He's going so far as to stealing paper towels and trying to weave them now
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Would it be cruel to take away all weaving materials?
- Thread starter CrazyBirdChick
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Birdlover42
Walking the driveway
NO WAY! So now you have to hide paper towels!!!! I feel like no matter what I do or don't do she's cage aggressive. She loves one of her toys that has little plastic pacifiers on a string. She pushes the pacifiers through the cage bars and pulls them out to play with them when she's done playing she pushes them all back through the cage.Good job Skittles! Just be careful not to let her start getting obsessive because Blu is still weaving crazed and mean. He's going so far as to stealing paper towels and trying to weave them now
Birdlover42
Walking the driveway
Her pacifier toy is her favorite and she just started pushing them through the bars
I think he was aggressive because I didn't think it was bad that I left like 5 old straws on his cagetop from a long time ago that he's resorted to have to weave with and I just took them away and he's already nicer. I don't usually hide the paper towels because there's always a roll on the table but when I have one single one laying around or in my hand he makes his move and runs off with it and brings it to his cage. He usually just lays it down in his wood box that's part of the java stand up there. Today is the first day he's actually trying to weave one in to his ladder.
Birdlover42
Walking the driveway
CrazyBirdChick how old is Blu???
I also meant to say that I think Blu's cage aggression is actually more room aggression because this whole room is his. He has alot of days where he's nice but today he's crazed.
He's about 4 and 1/2
I think the website updating erased my last post so I'll post it again
He's got that crazed look in his eyes today where all he can think about is weaving and biting
He's got that crazed look in his eyes today where all he can think about is weaving and biting
Birdlover42
Walking the driveway
Blu is soooo pretty and his room/house is amazing. Skittles thinks everything belongs to her also and I don't have anything like what you have! She is not even a year old yet so I see what I have to look forward to lol
Aww, thank you! Hopefully since Skittles is female she won't be as mean as Blu can be. I'm not sure but I thinks males can be more aggressive
I'm a mean mom but I'm tired of the biting so I've resorted to putting something scary up there (jolly ball) so he can cool his jets a little. I will take it down before I leave
And now he's changed his tune
And now he's changed his tune
Birdlover42
Walking the driveway
I'm a mean mom but I'm tired of the biting so I've resorted to putting something scary up there (jolly ball) so he can cool his jets a little. I will take it down before I leave.
Not mean at all! I use a long stick to keep her from biting me. It works very well when I put it between her and myself. I hadn't thought of leaving on her cage though like you have the ball. I'll try that
Not mean at all! I use a long stick to keep her from biting me. It works very well when I put it between her and myself. I hadn't thought of leaving on her cage though like you have the ball. I'll try that
Oh gosh! Now I really feel bad! I only did that because Blu is crazed today and keeps flying over to me just to bite me because he's frustrated he can't weave. I don't want you to scare Skittles and make her think her cage is a scary place! Blu is pretty fearless so it's hard to scare him.
JoJo&Loki
Rollerblading along the road
I love how he’s staring down the scary jolly ball! Lol
Blu is such a little spitfire. He’s sooo adorable too, so it’s gotta be rough during these times
I’m glad you found something to calm him down...even if it’s only temporary!
JoJo&Loki
Rollerblading along the road
Forgot to add, I also love his room! I really need to get an orbiter, I like how you have it on the hanger instead of using the ceiling!
Thank you! I'm not home anymore so I took the scary jolly ball away and the remainder of the old straws I forgot about before. I hope when I get home later he'll be a little sweeter.
I love how he’s staring down the scary jolly ball! Lol
Blu is such a little spitfire. He’s sooo adorable too, so it’s gotta be rough during these times
I’m glad you found something to calm him down...even if it’s only temporary!
Thank you! I did that not only because I'd prefer not to screw stuff into the ceiling but also because I don't want to give him any ideas about flying onto the ceiling fan. So far, so good
Thank you! I got that one on ebay
3 of my 7 Quakers are weavers, 1 of them is really quite the weaver, When his nest gets to big, I dismantle it, and put all the pieces back into his cage, and he restarts all over again, keeps him busy too, as he doesnt play much with toys, but loves to shred the new ones I give him as he uses the pieces he gets off his toys to weave, my other 2 weavers, have just started to show an interest in weaving, they usually just weave pieces of newspaper thbetween their cage bars and sometimes they will even use their long dried chili peppers to weave between bars too.
Thanks for sharing! If you have any pics of any of their creations I'd love to see!
I've decided that I can not take away Blu's weaving materials completely because he gets into trouble (like trying to get into the heating vent or engraving my wooden door frames) and because he really doesn't play with toys so it's a good outlet to keep him busy, as you say. And now I do as you do too. I don't let his projects get too large and out of control. I dismantle them either every day or every other day and we are both ok with that, I think.
