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Post by rose on Jul 3, 2019 20:02:16 GMT
Did anyone see 'My wild animal baby' on More4, which I recorded on Monday and have just finished watching?  The 'reconstruction' scenes were a bit clunky, but I will have to admit I was in tears by the end!  |
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Post by suesbird on Jul 3, 2019 20:22:12 GMT
No I didn't, if its sad I can't watch it.  |
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Post by rose on Jul 4, 2019 16:00:51 GMT
No I didn't, if its sad I can't watch it. It's sad at the end, but absolutely fascinating about parrot intelligence. I have to say, I'm not sure that Ian & Marshall had the intelligence to have competed with Alex in a pub quiz!  |
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Post by jellybean on Jul 4, 2019 16:04:36 GMT
Just downloaded it rose. Hope it's not too sad, don't think I've any tears left. |
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Post by rose on Jul 4, 2019 18:58:33 GMT
Just downloaded it rose . Hope it's not too sad, don't think I've any tears left. I've just seen the sad, sad news about Max, jellybean ... I'm so sorry  Perhaps wait a while before watching Alex: Dr Pepperberg shared her life with him for 31 years, and as you'll probably have guessed, he died in the end. That's twelve years ago now but I know I'd have found it very difficult if I'd watched that part of it straight after I lost Marshie and Ian. I do hope Ben's OK: dealing with a budgie's grief along with your own is so hard ... |
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Post by jellybean on Jul 4, 2019 19:38:42 GMT
Morning's and nigh times are the worst rose. I took the cover off this morning and he sat on his swing looking around him, it seemed like an eternity before he let out a chirp. The cage is so big for one wee birdie and he looks lost in it at night. I've been spending as much time as I can with him during the day, I don't know who's comforting who. Thanks for the kind words rose. |
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Post by helenmat on Jul 5, 2019 7:38:19 GMT
I will watch on catch up later thank you
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Post by rose on Jul 5, 2019 9:23:10 GMT
Morning's and nigh times are the worst rose . I took the cover off this morning and he sat on his swing looking around him, it seemed like an eternity before he let out a chirp. The cage is so big for one wee birdie and he looks lost in it at night. I've been spending as much time as I can with him during the day, I don't know who's comforting who. Thanks for the kind words rose . It's so sad ... I do know how you feel. You may have posted elsewhere about this, but are you thinking about getting Ben a friend at some point? It was terrible seeing Ian on his own until I got Eric/finished E's quarantine ... And then I had Eric on his own for a few weeks after Ian died... |
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Post by jellybean on Jul 5, 2019 16:25:35 GMT
I don't know rose, I'll feel selfish if I don't because he's always been used to having Max, and having just me, isn't the same. I'm waiting to see how Ben copes, sometimes he sits singing and talking to his mirrors, other times he looks so forlorn, and that breaks my heart. Because of the birds we haven't had a holiday in over 4 years, not even a long weekend away. They were ALWAYS my birds, so I feel it's a bit unfair on my OH, although he says he is not against me getting another. On our last holiday, my brother took them, what a carry on, I have a Hamberley cage, so he took the cage in his car and I took the stand, and the birds were locked in for the 10 days we were away, as my Brother refused to let them out because they were in a strange house. My two were only used to being locked in at bedtime. If I did get another I don't know where I could quarantine it, Ben is in the living room all day and sleeps in the spare bedroom at night, and I only have a 2 bedroom flat. So much to consider rose, but my heart may yet overrule my head. |
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Post by suesbird on Jul 5, 2019 17:50:56 GMT
My two go to my sister-in-laws when I am away and she is not allowed to let them out because she would never get them in. They have always been fine and as soon as I get them home they are let out. I have struggled with quarantining Misty, I did it for two weeks but he was so miserable and just sat in a corner, so I bit the dust and put them together. They are slowly getting to know one another and as I am in and out I felt Pip needed the company.
I have enjoyed having another one, I didn't leave it long after Jo as I didn't want Pip to be alone for long, he is very sociable.
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Post by Hezz on Jul 6, 2019 0:51:47 GMT
You will find a way, jellybean, even if it means shuffling cages around in the evenings so that the two birds don't come together in the hallway. You might have to consider a compromised sort of quarantine, without skipping it all together. |
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Post by rose on Jul 6, 2019 17:24:17 GMT
I don't know rose , I'll feel selfish if I don't because he's always been used to having Max, and having just me, isn't the same. I'm waiting to see how Ben copes, sometimes he sits singing and talking to his mirrors, other times he looks so forlorn, and that breaks my heart. Because of the birds we haven't had a holiday in over 4 years, not even a long weekend away. They were ALWAYS my birds, so I feel it's a bit unfair on my OH, although he says he is not against me getting another. On our last holiday, my brother took them, what a carry on, I have a Hamberley cage, so he took the cage in his car and I took the stand, and the birds were locked in for the 10 days we were away, as my Brother refused to let them out because they were in a strange house. My two were only used to being locked in at bedtime. If I did get another I don't know where I could quarantine it, Ben is in the living room all day and sleeps in the spare bedroom at night, and I only have a 2 bedroom flat. So much to consider rose , but my heart may yet overrule my head. I know what you mean about holidays: I never felt I could go away for more than a day or two when I had the boyz. Their cage was too big to move, and I couldn't bear to deprive them of the option of trashing the living room during the day. In fact, I'd just come across a chap who is actually a dog-walking person but seemed to be fine coming round and seeing to the boyz when the disaster of Marshie escaping set off the whole chain of events that led to no more budgies. (For now!) It is difficult when you don't have much room: my flat is only one-bedroomed, but there's only me here. When I got Eric, he lived in the bedroom till the happy day after quarantine when he joined Ian... But as Hezz says, I'm sure you'll find a way, jellybean . In my experience, decisions that seemed horrendous to make at the time look much more straightforward in retrospect! |
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Post by Hezz on Jul 7, 2019 0:04:09 GMT
I've had times when I've had to have Mango in our bedroom during the day. OH didn't like it but when I said the alternative was most likely more vet bills, he soon "saw reason".  |
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