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Post by sweetpea on Oct 3, 2014 13:26:36 GMT
My vet turns out all the lights with a budgie in a cage and just scoops them off the perch. Does that method work for you?? I found out ages ago that my puddings could, & would, fly in the dark!
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Marianne Marlow
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Oct 3, 2014 13:31:16 GMT
My husband tends to catch them and I administer meds, cut nails, clean bottoms etc..
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 3, 2014 13:58:56 GMT
My husband tends to catch them and I administer meds, cut nails, clean bottoms etc.. That sounds like a good system.
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Post by stace on Oct 4, 2014 0:02:10 GMT
My vet turns out all the lights with a budgie in a cage and just scoops them off the perch. Hard to do in the day, if you're in a room that can't be blacked out though.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Oct 4, 2014 7:23:19 GMT
My vet turns out all the lights with a budgie in a cage and just scoops them off the perch. Hard to do in the day, if you're in a room that can't be blacked out though. You can cover the cage for the same effect
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 4, 2014 9:51:40 GMT
Hard to do in the day, if you're in a room that can't be blacked out though. You can cover the cage for the same effect I must admit, I'm not a fan of this method. Like stace says, I find it difficult to get 'blackout' during daylight hours, even with a dark, heavy cover. Plus, if you do achieve it, you can't see yourself! I also find that a bird doesn't sit patiently waiting for you to pick it up, but flails around in a panic & as it's dark there is a chance of injury. But then my buds are a bit 'disobedient'.... to say the least.... Bezukhov's new trick is to wriggle downwards in the cloth I am holding him in, until he's almost like a little ball & his beak is nowhere near the syringe. There are no flies on that boy.
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 4, 2014 9:56:50 GMT
Double post. Thanks flaky internet....
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 5, 2014 18:39:11 GMT
If it wasn't bad enough that I *have* to go through the torment & torture of administering medicine... I now have 2 very, very, very, very, VERY naughty boys who are creating drama out of nothing by refusing to go back to the manor for bed. I have removed all outside food so they have to go in to eat but at a time when I need B to put on weight he'd rather starve than go home. I am soooo tired.
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Post by OP on Oct 5, 2014 19:08:50 GMT
Just a thought, but are you able to leave a light shining over the cage and turn out the rest of the lights. Mine always, always go where the most light is. Normally where I am sat at the computer. They are very good at going in the cage though.
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Post by jellybean on Oct 5, 2014 19:28:47 GMT
If it wasn't bad enough that I *have* to go through the torment & torture of administering medicine... I now have 2 very, very, very, very, VERY naughty boys who are creating drama out of nothing by refusing to go back to the manor for bed. I have removed all outside food so they have to go in to eat but at a time when I need B to put on weight he'd rather starve than go home. I am soooo tired. I can sympathise with that situation only too well sweetpea. I have 2 boys who played the exact same game with me until I started to time their eating habits. I now remove all out of cage food at 4pm, I know then, that at around 5.15/5.45pm they start to get hungry, so at around that time I keep an eye on them, and as soon as they go into the cage to eat, the doors are shut. This then allows them to settle down and go to and from the seed dish when they want, until I put them to bed at 7.30pm. Getting into a routine with them has certainly helped me, because their idea of bedtime sure didn't help my blood pressure Good luck.
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 5, 2014 19:33:40 GMT
Just a thought, but are you able to leave a light shining over the cage and turn out the rest of the lights. Mine always, always go where the most light is. Normally where I am sat at the computer. They are very good at going in the cage though. Very good point, OP. I was thinking of my cordless lamp but can't remember where I put it! I also thought of the ol' turn-all-lights-out-&-pick-them-up-like-strawberries trick but they probably would have still flown in panic & crashed everywhere. The good news is that I managed to grab Cagney whilst he was on the side of Phinny's cage & once he was home, Bezukhov wanted to get in & sit beside him. Tomorrow I will not have any seed outside the cage (except, of course, in Phinny's) & hope they will go back routinely to eat during the day. I'm pretty certain that B now thinks of the manor as a place that I catch him & then give meds, hence his reluctance to return, but I'm not sure how to wipe that memory from him each day for the next 34 days...
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 5, 2014 19:37:36 GMT
If it wasn't bad enough that I *have* to go through the torment & torture of administering medicine... I now have 2 very, very, very, very, VERY naughty boys who are creating drama out of nothing by refusing to go back to the manor for bed. I have removed all outside food so they have to go in to eat but at a time when I need B to put on weight he'd rather starve than go home. I am soooo tired. I can sympathise with that situation only too well sweetpea. I have 2 boys who played the exact same game with me until I started to time their eating habits. I now remove all out of cage food at 4pm, I know then, that at around 5.15/5.45pm they start to get hungry, so at around that time I keep an eye on them, and as soon as they go into the cage to eat, the doors are shut. This then allows them to settle down and go to and from the seed dish when they want, until I put them to bed at 7.30pm. Getting into a routine with them has certainly helped me, because their idea of bedtime sure didn't help my blood pressure Good luck. Very well explained, jellybean. In fact, that's what I would normally do but since B has lost weight I left seed out everywhere to encourage him to eat. This evening I decided to practice exactly what you described but it backfired, I think because of B's association of bad things (me catching him) in the manor. Such complicated little blighters....
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 7, 2014 18:55:35 GMT
For 3 nights running I have had to catch Cagney & put him in the Manor. Bezukhov refuses to go back in, though during the day he does favour the water in there (it's the same as Phinny's water). I can understand that he now associates the manor with me catching him in the morning for medication. He & C are thick as thieves so that means C does not go in. Fortunately, I have managed to catch Cagney & once he's in the manor (& quite happy, I might add!) then Bezukhov wants to join him. It's all a major kerfuffle.
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Post by ffiscool on Oct 7, 2014 23:11:26 GMT
Sounds it :-(
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Post by stace on Oct 8, 2014 0:14:23 GMT
For 3 nights running I have had to catch Cagney & put him in the Manor. Bezukhov refuses to go back in, though during the day he does favour the water in there (it's the same as Phinny's water). I can understand that he now associates the manor with me catching him in the morning for medication. He & C are thick as thieves so that means C does not go in. Fortunately, I have managed to catch Cagney & once he's in the manor (& quite happy, I might add!) then Bezukhov wants to join him. It's all a major kerfuffle. It's such a problem. I can relate. Boo hates being caught because he had several months of being caught, taken to the vet, and subjected to force feeding and multiple uncomfortable x-rays. It wasn't pleasant for him and went on for so long. Unfortunately they do quickly associate catching up and the places they are caught up with bad things, because it's true. I wish I had an easy solution for you.
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