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Post by Loz on May 4, 2024 7:37:57 GMT
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Post by Loz on May 4, 2024 8:00:29 GMT
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 4, 2024 8:07:09 GMT
Wow, she is a beauty. Is she a rescue?
Was she already tame?
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 4, 2024 8:07:44 GMT
Daddeh, don't block my shot ![](https://i.postimg.cc/BQ97ZTS0/20240503-WA0009.jpg)
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 4, 2024 8:11:44 GMT
Amazing that they now do Carte d'or for cockatiels ![(rofl)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/rofl.png) is it millet flavour?
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Post by ffiscool on May 4, 2024 8:18:30 GMT
She’s lovely! I think Coco will be delighted
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Post by Loz on May 4, 2024 8:21:08 GMT
Quincy's story:
Quincy is approximately five years old. She spent a year with her first carer, an older lady who had apparently trained Quincy very well. Unfortunately, she needed to be rehomed and her next carer had her for four years. Her new home was fine for a couple of years and a very cherished family pet but after those two years, a change of family circumstances meant that there was less time for Quincy to spend with her humans. After two years of these reduced circumstance, her carer made the painful decision to give Quincy up to a new home. The presence of a cat, non-predatory but still a cat, was less than ideal.
Having rejected a number of offers, I was lucky enough to be accepted as Quincy's new carer (I think slave might be appropriate, more on that in a minute). I brought Quincy home yesterday and as I type this, she is sitting on my shoulder and preening me.
I'm in a very new situation right. Every time I enter Quincy's room now, after a minute or two of assessment, she lands on my shoulder and refuses to leave it. If you could have seen what I've tried to do to persuade her off, you'd laugh. A lot. I needed to wash out one of her bowls this morning. In the end I just said to Hull with it, and walked to the bathroom and back, with Quincy on my shoulder. Strictly a breach of quarantine but little risk to the Flock.
I mean it, she won't leave my shoulder. I took off my fleece, pulled it up and over my head and she was STILL on my shoulder. How? How does that happen?
It's early days yet. I'm not going to panic but if this goes on, how do I look after the Flock when Quincy is a full-time, full-attention parrot? I've considered ending the quarantine early and just introducing Quincy. I think the risk is minimal - Quincy was a singleton her whole life, has been given a clean bill of health from an avian vet a few years ago. I'm worried that if I am to provide Coco with enough attention, Quincy will miss out, and vice versa. Things to ponder whilst I watch what happens play out.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 4, 2024 8:25:40 GMT
I really don't understand the mentality of having a cat with birds, especially small ones like budgies and cockatiels. She sounds like a lovely bird :-) Got your hands very full here lozYou may need to employ some staff!!
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Post by Loz on May 4, 2024 8:30:58 GMT
I am the staff, Marianne Marlow. She is lovely, truly. And she's now wondering around the room looking for food and admiring herself in a mirror, so I was able to properly sort out her water.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 4, 2024 8:59:31 GMT
Perhaps she will be less clingy when she realises this is her forever home ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Loz on May 4, 2024 9:32:39 GMT
Perhaps she will be less clingy when she realises this is her forever home ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I hope so. It's lovely to get the attention but I do have other birbs who need my care. And did I mention, lunch was two & half hours late yesterday? She's sat on her travel cage at the moment, preening so I am getting a little time off.
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 4, 2024 9:35:06 GMT
Aw. She's so sweet!
I remember my Hector, he was that clinging. He wanted to sit on my hand all the time. I could only eat food with either my hand or a spoon cos I never had 2 hands free.
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Post by Loz on May 4, 2024 10:01:23 GMT
Returning to Quincy's room after dinner yesterday, I discovered her on the sky snake. Excellent! ![](https://i.postimg.cc/BXjz1Gmn/20240503-204121.jpg) She soon returned to my shoulder though. I just caught the end of a thorough wing-and-leg stretch here: ![](https://i.postimg.cc/nsJS59pX/20240503-204611.jpg) This morning, business as usual: ![](https://i.postimg.cc/GH65FSfJ/20240504-081311.jpg) ![](https://i.postimg.cc/FfVCQFHD/20240504-081403.jpg) Eventually, it was apparent to me that Quincy was hungry. I used this as a teaching moment and taxied her to her cage, to show her her seed bowl. Result! ![](https://i.postimg.cc/YvgybzKc/20240504-104129.jpg) After breakfast, she again sat on my shoulder and decided to beak-grind in my ear. And then she sneezed in my ear, which was cute ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by Marianne Marlow on May 4, 2024 10:03:23 GMT
Quincy is so much more adventurous than Coco. I hope they will be good friends.
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Post by Ira on May 4, 2024 13:56:53 GMT
Seems to be a bird that may have been placed on a shoulder from a young age, and being a singleton means she had all the fuss.
But hey, once quarantine is done hopefully Coco will start to feel more comfortable around you if she sees Quincy interacting with you. Or maybe Quincy will be curious about having another tiel around.
Quincy is such an adorable name.
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