when he wants to and has huge blue eyes the he makes large and small
when he is excited. For years I had a huge apartment that he could free
fly in and I loved watching him fly. He would follow me from room to
room, tease my dog, swing on the pictures, and would get on my hanging
mirror and look at himself upside down all the time. I taught him to do
tricks like hanging from his toes, rolling over and I could sit him on top of
my head on his back. My most dangerous trick was having him hang off
my nose with his beak and I could swing him back and forth. He rarely
bites ( just at bed time) but mock attacks all the time. At fist I could say
get "get in your cage" and he would fly in but soon he got stubborn and
would laugh at me as I chased him around the apartment. It breaks my
heart to clip his wings by my house is smaller now and he could hurt
himself so I had too. I miss watching him fly. He had a accident once,
because he is a master of breaking out of his cage and then letting the
other birds out. I don't know how, but he can pick locks.The other birds
cage has a sliding top and he pulled it open one time when I was at
work. The top slammed down and cut a few of his toes off. Blood was
everwhere that he flew, and i'm lucky he did not bleed to death. He picks
on the other birds sometimes but that is getting better. I feel bad that I
now keep him in a cage to small for all my parrots but I had a problem
with mice eating the bird food and two cages and a pack of distructive
mice in a tiny house was way to much for me to handle. Cages are so
damm costly and he seems to be able to break out of large ones. I found
a huge lock with a rubber stop on the key hole and that works for
now.
All my birds are tame but seem to get along with each other better then
me, I suppose it is better because I'm at work a lot of the time. My
newest problem is screeching, why can't bigbird sing or whisle like he
used to? He used to whisle all kinds of show tunes even said a few words
but now its is just screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhh!!!!!
try doing school work to that!! My only recourse sometimes is to put him
in a birdy box for a time out, but it only works for a short while. I feel like
it is all my fault because I work to much, live in a much smaller house,
clipped his wings, and don't really have the space for larger cages, and
I'm fighting off mice so I can't leave treats or extra food in the cage any
more. I'm such a bad birdy parent
I used to take him in the
shower, on drives with me in the car, and he loved that but now with
school I have less time to play with him. His he unhappy? I feel like i'm
over my head. Can I undo the damage of his unhappyness, if that is what
it is? I often feel like I should get him an another ringneck buddy, but
then that would be one more bird to take care of and I already have six!!
What if it doesn't help his screeching? My little parkeets should have died
five years ago I have had them twelve years. I have two coktails and
they are bonded well. The male can be grumpy sometimes but the female
is just a sweetheart. My ringneck likes her as well and I think the two
males fight for her attention. She could care less. Well those are my birdy
storys ( oh god! the screeching started)
Peace, Jules!!