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by Teabag
Thu Aug 27, 2015 1:24 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Hi again, sorry for delayed response, moving house, internet.... nuff said....! The biting.... it hurts, enough so I need to pull away instead of waiting to see if she draws blood... But I don't think she is scared or being aggressive, as an example, she can come wandering up to me on the dining tab...
by Teabag
Fri Jul 31, 2015 5:00 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Hello there, It's been a while, so just thought I'd check in to let you know all is well in Stella's world! She still bites, and I AM going to fix that, just need to get through a house move first....but apart from that she seems a very happy bird. She hasn't yet done her big moult that I'm waiting ...
by Teabag
Sat May 02, 2015 4:50 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Hello all, it's been a while so felt the need to share a Stella-update! All is going well, she has discovered the joy of bathing, which is very entertaining to watch, and she still loves her little ball with the bell, but doesn't seem to break it, just head butting it around a lot! I take her out ev...
by Teabag
Sat Mar 21, 2015 4:44 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Yes, get your point and you're quite right missK, better with an annoyed but healthy bird at the vet than having to go anyway for something that could have been avoided. Mary, she has lots of different perches, thick and thin, wood, a couple of those "pedi perches" and some rope ones, so h...
by Teabag
Wed Mar 18, 2015 1:30 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

The bell and Stella are still best friends, she doesn't chew it a lot, just head butts it and then runs after it, very entertaining! But will definitely keep a very close eye on it. Apart from that all well with the girl, she is growing up, I just noticed today that she has become quite regal lookin...
by Teabag
Thu Mar 05, 2015 4:52 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Aha, thank you for the info... and hope Nila is ok?.. So, at 6 months she is "fully grown" weight wise? And ... She is active, but as she can't fly yet the exercise is limited, hopefully baby fat will turn into muscle when she gets her wings back.... In the mean time, she tried to fly from...
by Teabag
Wed Mar 04, 2015 4:02 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Ooh, and I weighed her today, 137 grams, healthy weight for a 6 month old.....? Or a bit chubby...?
by Teabag
Mon Mar 02, 2015 4:41 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

He he, stellar Steven it is in that case! I guess time will tell, and in the meantime it is she, having fun with the ball.... I'll keep a close eye on the bell inside, so far (third day) it seems safe in there. She got a whole stash of new toys today, I'm preparing for having to be away from Friday ...
by Teabag
Sat Feb 28, 2015 2:59 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Hi again all, Quick question.... I've got Stella a little ball with holes, and a bell inside, one of those cat toys? She loves it, carries it around, head butts it and talks to it, but she also walks around it, with wings wide, and her head low and "bobbing", what is she doing? She is only...
by Teabag
Wed Feb 25, 2015 12:26 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Thank you Mary, All sound advice. She seems to want to wander around on the floor, cute, but see your point, can be dangerous losing track of her! At the moment she is wandering around on the table, I'm just home from work and am letting her have some time to explore before we go for an "wander...
by Teabag
Thu Feb 19, 2015 1:26 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

He he and thank you! We've just had another good "session", wandered around the living room, her sitting quite content bur curious on my arm! She looks like she is planning where and what to destroy when she finally can fly! Here she is with her favourite toy, the iPad..... if I can post p...
by Teabag
Wed Feb 18, 2015 2:29 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Great video, and good advice in it. Stella stepped onto my hand today! Granted it was covered by a long sleeved shirt, but even so! Very excited!! I even walked her around a little bit, stepped her down to the play stand again, and did the same thing again a couple of times. Did I say I was excited....
by Teabag
Sun Feb 15, 2015 3:42 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Thank you Inthe Air, I (we...) just have to be patient then! Dread to think what a full moult will look like if this is a partial btw, there are cute little yellow and white fluffy feathers everywhere! Oh well.... On another note, I've ordered a smaller cage for her today, to act as a sleep cage if ...
by Teabag
Sat Feb 14, 2015 1:38 am
Forum: IRN Lounge
Topic: One Year later
Replies: 4
Views: 5084

Re: One Year later

So happy to hear that, I got my little Stella about a month ago, she is around 6 months old now (going through her first moult, feathers everywhere...), severely clipped, and I don't really know if she did some flying before she was clipped even.... My aim is to have her tame enough to at least have...
by Teabag
Wed Feb 11, 2015 1:22 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

He he, I'll keep ranting then... :D Wednesday eve here now, and my third day back at work being away from 8 - 5-ish 4 days a week. Today Stella has had both the husband and the dogs for company though, so she has had a good day by the sounds of it. I've just had her out, doing the now usual routine ...
by Teabag
Thu Feb 05, 2015 4:58 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Thank you, and yes, she is definitively getting bolder! I put a branch from her play stand to the kitchen table now when I open her doors, and she happily wanders on it to come visit on the table (where I have another little play station she can hang out on). This morning she crawled on to the table...
by Teabag
Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:43 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Thanks for info and links, much appreciated! Stella now happily steps onto one of those plastic perches with a "tray" around it that I hold underneath, they're ok aren't they? (As she does bite fingers if she can get to them, demonstrated when she stepped up just now, I told her she was a ...
by Teabag
Fri Jan 30, 2015 10:10 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Thanks missK, My Saturday chores have had to wait, as I've been busy firstly finding some sand paper in the very messy garage, then sanding down the branches! :D She's out on the newly sanded stand now, I place it so she can walk onto it from inside the cage, and she has found a bell on the end of a...
by Teabag
Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:39 pm
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Re: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Thank you for the kind words Dana. It's morning here in Melbourne, Stella is busy playing with her "foot ball" and making very cute noises. She terrified me yesterday as she fell off her play stand onto our tiled floor, but apart from looking a bit embarrassed she seemed fine, and hopped s...
by Teabag
Fri Jan 30, 2015 1:25 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself!
Topic: Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!
Replies: 39
Views: 19425

Hi all, thank you and introducing Stella!

Hi there, New to IRN-hood and very grateful for all the info in this forum! Stella joined our family two weeks ago now as our first IRN, having "graduated" from our dear cockatiel Flynn who left us about half a year ago now. She was definitely not an impulse buy, we had been talking about ...