Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2020 12:03:16 GMT
Haha! So teue, jellybean.
Marianne Marlow How long did it take your OH to realise you were wrong? Not sure what my nan was expecting either!
I don't think I can deal with it today though. I've carried home 6 heavy bags of shopping this morning, it's about a 10 minute walk, and my brain feels messy over what I'm using different things for, like my large glass jar storing feathers.
(It's big so could probably hold a few feathers from each bird for a lifetime... but what if I don't get more birds... what if they feel like too much work? If all goes well, going to be almost 40 by the time these guys have left me. What if I decide on a different type of pet?)
(My brain needs to chill and enjoy the moment more. Apologies, you guys don't need to hear my inner brain ramblings. But sometimes it feels like a messy ball of wool all tangled with things and expressing it helps.)
But on the plus side the cage is large and normally they'll have to spend up to 3 days a week inside depending on my work schedule (so ideally I'd have them out as much as possible this week to make the most of their extra chances to exercise), so they can flit about and it gives me the opportunity to work on offering treats inside the cage to help the nervousness they sometimes display in there, and also to observe whether they can cope with all being inside together for long periods when we're at work or whether I'll need to separate them.
Sorry, that got rambly.
Anyway, back to actual news about the three of them.
This morning I started the new addition to our routine. The capture. Offer some millet, catch the bird (the time this takes varies), hold them momentarily and offer more millet, keep the millet there and then release my grip.
Munchy is the easiest to catch. He'll usually start trying to fend me off before he starts running away.
Indie is the slipperiest, but when I let go of him he stays on my hand and continues eating the millet.
Yuki is somewhere in the middle but is quick to flee when released.
During catching one of them, Munchy slipped out and attempted to raid the pot of millet... only to be so focused on doing so that I just picked him up and popped him back inside the cage.
Yesterday when they were all on the bed attempting to get the millet from the pot I just put my hand in an arch over it so that to get it they'd have to put their heads under my hand.
I'll get them used to it eventually.
Marianne Marlow How long did it take your OH to realise you were wrong? Not sure what my nan was expecting either!
I don't think I can deal with it today though. I've carried home 6 heavy bags of shopping this morning, it's about a 10 minute walk, and my brain feels messy over what I'm using different things for, like my large glass jar storing feathers.
(It's big so could probably hold a few feathers from each bird for a lifetime... but what if I don't get more birds... what if they feel like too much work? If all goes well, going to be almost 40 by the time these guys have left me. What if I decide on a different type of pet?)
(My brain needs to chill and enjoy the moment more. Apologies, you guys don't need to hear my inner brain ramblings. But sometimes it feels like a messy ball of wool all tangled with things and expressing it helps.)
But on the plus side the cage is large and normally they'll have to spend up to 3 days a week inside depending on my work schedule (so ideally I'd have them out as much as possible this week to make the most of their extra chances to exercise), so they can flit about and it gives me the opportunity to work on offering treats inside the cage to help the nervousness they sometimes display in there, and also to observe whether they can cope with all being inside together for long periods when we're at work or whether I'll need to separate them.
Sorry, that got rambly.
Anyway, back to actual news about the three of them.
This morning I started the new addition to our routine. The capture. Offer some millet, catch the bird (the time this takes varies), hold them momentarily and offer more millet, keep the millet there and then release my grip.
Munchy is the easiest to catch. He'll usually start trying to fend me off before he starts running away.
Indie is the slipperiest, but when I let go of him he stays on my hand and continues eating the millet.
Yuki is somewhere in the middle but is quick to flee when released.
During catching one of them, Munchy slipped out and attempted to raid the pot of millet... only to be so focused on doing so that I just picked him up and popped him back inside the cage.
Yesterday when they were all on the bed attempting to get the millet from the pot I just put my hand in an arch over it so that to get it they'd have to put their heads under my hand.
I'll get them used to it eventually.