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Post by Loz on Mar 30, 2023 13:01:38 GMT
Well, budgies are well known for their superior decision-making capabilities ...*straight face*
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Post by Ira on Mar 30, 2023 18:23:55 GMT
My favourite kwote "Sometimes, the human in question, will attempt to use a kloth of some sort to kontain you. This kan be a challenge. I find this next method quite effective, âRotationâ. Itâz a subset of wriggling really, but deserves its own mention. Wriggling in a rotating way means that when the human adjusts the kloth to find your head, itâz often facing away from the human, thereby making administering of medication impossible (unless the human is a kontortionist which my one iznât). The human will then have to temporarily put the medicine launching device² down in order to use both hands to adjust the kloth to get you in the korrect position but this iz another opportunity to wriggle." Bezukhov spoke truly đ My dear Patch added his own creation, The Turtleneck, to these methodologies. His head would almost disappear from view, rendering the beak unaccessible. This is amazing.
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Post by Ira on Mar 30, 2023 18:26:54 GMT
Yuki goes through bouts of trying to hold his beak shut too. Although the first time I ever gave him medicine he tried to push the syringe away with his tongue.
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Post by Ira on Apr 3, 2023 8:26:40 GMT
How's Toby getting on, blueelephant? Interestingly, Yuki's become better at taking his medicine since I've gotten into a proper routine with him. I now put on my red hoodie (I have very little that's red so it seemed a good colour to use), show him the syringe and draw up the medicine in view of the cage. He knows it's coming so he's all prepared to try and dodge me, and as I don't yet have anything red to put in the middle of the cage to divide it I'll have to swap doors, but I usually still have him in less than 30 seconds. Hold him to my chest, tell him "Num-nums" and there's very little resistance to taking it. Back on a perch, offer some millet, then once he leaves I move away, take off the hoodie to indicate that 'bad hands' time is over, and leave everything to calm for a minute whilst I go about other stuff.
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Post by Loz on Apr 3, 2023 9:27:37 GMT
How's Toby getting on, blueelephant ? Interestingly, Yuki's become better at taking his medicine since I've gotten into a proper routine with him. I now put on my red hoodie (I have very little that's red so it seemed a good colour to use), show him the syringe and draw up the medicine in view of the cage. He knows it's coming so he's all prepared to try and dodge me, and as I don't yet have anything red to put in the middle of the cage to divide it I'll have to swap doors, but I usually still have him in less than 30 seconds. Hold him to my chest, tell him "Num-nums" and there's very little resistance to taking it. Back on a perch, offer some millet, then once he leaves I move away, take off the hoodie to indicate that 'bad hands' time is over, and leave everything to calm for a minute whilst I go about other stuff. This is really interesting stuff. I wear a green pair of gloves when I'm capturing budgies for similar reasons, so that they don't associate my hands with a miserable time. Could you try this approach with human patients? How is Toby, blueelephant?
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Post by Ira on Apr 3, 2023 9:50:57 GMT
loz White coat syndrome is a thing for a reason. You can walk into a room to ask a parent if they want a drink and the child will start freaking out because the person in blue scrubs has appeared.
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Post by Loz on Apr 3, 2023 9:53:31 GMT
True Ira, but with a red hoodie, you could pretend you're a Jeremy Irons type of surgeon from Dead Ringers! Max freak out, if they know the film
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Post by Ira on Apr 3, 2023 10:08:16 GMT
If we're talking Jeremy Irons, loz, I'll have to do a Scar impression whilst holding them. "Life's not fair, is it?"
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Apr 3, 2023 10:17:10 GMT
Jeremy Irons is so terrifying. Especially on Play away!
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Post by blueelephant on Apr 3, 2023 19:23:35 GMT
Ira We have been away for two days so Toby has been with my brother. He wasn't confident catching him so he's offered medicine on millet with limited success. Back home this evening and dose applied as normal. On the plus side my brother has discovered that Toby LOVES groats/oats. So he's given me back a budgie weighing 43g! I'm delighted. He's also given me a bag of groats so I can keep fattening him up.
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Post by Ira on Apr 3, 2023 19:41:44 GMT
I'm glad that he's managed to gain some weight!
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Post by Loz on Apr 3, 2023 19:44:30 GMT
I love it when a budgie discovers a new food he loves đ
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Post by Ira on Apr 3, 2023 20:18:36 GMT
Pippin loves groats. If we get them to eat nutriberries in our hands there are usually groats left lying around and Pippin will accept them being held out to him.
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Oct 6, 2011 7:41:27 GMT
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Post by Marianne Marlow on Apr 3, 2023 21:22:58 GMT
When I am refilling seed bowls at the end of the evening, Chipper will brave being right near me if I let him rifle though a bowl and nick a few illicit oats
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Post by blueelephant on Apr 10, 2023 18:31:01 GMT
So Toby is 44g this evening which is good. However Barney is 59 đ. Going to have to lock Toby in with the treats and leave Barney to watch from outside...
It's hard to know how Toby is actually doing. He's heavier which is great, but he's still vomiting regularly. I'd thought his poos were getting better, but now they are wet and splatty again. I just don't really feel we are actually fixing things here âšī¸.
His escape from medicine skills are also improving daily.
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