One of my little feathered friends
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With the days getting shorter I'm having less and less time to spend with my feathered friends in the house. In our household we have several cages with groups of birds in them. Some who may have followed past threads I've posted know that there are cat allergies, and some dog allergies in the household. My Wife and Son have the most difficulties with pet allergies, my daughter and myself much less so.
The birds have been a good, or at least reasonable compromise. Everyone seems to be able to deal with them without experiencing the itchiness that goes with the cats and dogs.
Anyway, with fall coming on strong, and daylight getting to be less and less each day, I find that my biggest baby has the toughest time adjusting. Actually this particular baby resembles the sample picture below:
She (this is a female, as is the bird in the picture) does love to come out and visit with me, having apparently bonded somewhat over the last year to 18 months or so that she's lived in our house.
For those that are curious, a male version is pictured here:
As usual in nature, the male is dressed up a bit more, with the beautiful ringed collar to help attract the females with.
In anycase, my little friend came to live with us last year, and in that time has finally seemed to adjust fairly well to living with myself and my family. She was previously owned by my former sister-in-law's now husband, then boyfriend/fiance. He had owned her for several years, and while a nice pet, she can be quite noisy when she wants her quiet time. She is very much in tune with natural light cycles, and as the sun starts to set, she will make it well known through her whistles that she wants everyone to leave her alone and let her have quiet time. (It seems completely illogical that she'd squawk and whistle so much just to demand peace and quiet, but oh well).
Once she starts squawking it's time to pull the covers over the cage and let her have her privacy. She'll rustle a bit in the cage, occassionally go for some food or water, or perhaps some chewable toys that are in the cage, and basically stay quiet until the next morning when the cycle repeats.
Lately she's been getting more and more friendly about coming out for a visit though, and it's been nice to come home and be able to let her out of the cage to sit on my too-fat belly and chest where she'll sit and let me pet her some and perhaps lick and kiss at my chin. Once there she'd be content (most of the time it seems) to just stay there with both of us falling asleep. She does occassionally start playing a little rough though, and with the fairly large beak, and sharp claws, it's not a good idea to let her start playing too rough lest my shirt be ripped into shreads.
In anycase, I'm glad we gave Boomer a home when she was offered to us. She's been a great addition to our home and seems to be happy to have joined us. Maybe later I'll have time to find a sample picture of some of the other (all smaller than Boomer) birds in the house. 3 Cockatiels, a pair of 'keets and a little Green Cheek Conure whose whistles and squawk's are anything but little (quiet the noisy little bugger!) Never a quiet day at our house.
The birds have been a good, or at least reasonable compromise. Everyone seems to be able to deal with them without experiencing the itchiness that goes with the cats and dogs.
Anyway, with fall coming on strong, and daylight getting to be less and less each day, I find that my biggest baby has the toughest time adjusting. Actually this particular baby resembles the sample picture below:
She (this is a female, as is the bird in the picture) does love to come out and visit with me, having apparently bonded somewhat over the last year to 18 months or so that she's lived in our house.
For those that are curious, a male version is pictured here:
As usual in nature, the male is dressed up a bit more, with the beautiful ringed collar to help attract the females with.
In anycase, my little friend came to live with us last year, and in that time has finally seemed to adjust fairly well to living with myself and my family. She was previously owned by my former sister-in-law's now husband, then boyfriend/fiance. He had owned her for several years, and while a nice pet, she can be quite noisy when she wants her quiet time. She is very much in tune with natural light cycles, and as the sun starts to set, she will make it well known through her whistles that she wants everyone to leave her alone and let her have quiet time. (It seems completely illogical that she'd squawk and whistle so much just to demand peace and quiet, but oh well).
Once she starts squawking it's time to pull the covers over the cage and let her have her privacy. She'll rustle a bit in the cage, occassionally go for some food or water, or perhaps some chewable toys that are in the cage, and basically stay quiet until the next morning when the cycle repeats.
Lately she's been getting more and more friendly about coming out for a visit though, and it's been nice to come home and be able to let her out of the cage to sit on my too-fat belly and chest where she'll sit and let me pet her some and perhaps lick and kiss at my chin. Once there she'd be content (most of the time it seems) to just stay there with both of us falling asleep. She does occassionally start playing a little rough though, and with the fairly large beak, and sharp claws, it's not a good idea to let her start playing too rough lest my shirt be ripped into shreads.
In anycase, I'm glad we gave Boomer a home when she was offered to us. She's been a great addition to our home and seems to be happy to have joined us. Maybe later I'll have time to find a sample picture of some of the other (all smaller than Boomer) birds in the house. 3 Cockatiels, a pair of 'keets and a little Green Cheek Conure whose whistles and squawk's are anything but little (quiet the noisy little bugger!) Never a quiet day at our house.
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