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Thank you to whoever posted that awesome youtube clip of the bird with half a TP tube. Squirt has been playing with it at every opportunity. Also, re: poopchat, squirt is a rainbow lorikeet, and has always had runny shits, hence the name. We have checked his diet with a bird vet and he says its good, so we just live with it. NPR Journalizard fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Oct 27, 2012 |
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I thought cheese was bad for birds? Have I been denying Squirt treats all this time? Also, coming home to a quiet house is weird now. We are heading away on holidays for a week and a bit, so have given Squirt to my partners mum for now. She has looked after Squirt before, and has kept birds for longer than I have been around, so im not worried about anything. I just miss the squarks of fury when I dont open the cage as soon as I get home.
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Nov 6, 2012 01:44
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Would using cheese for clicker training treats be too much?
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Nov 6, 2012 01:54
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Battle Pigeon posted:Oh man, I want one of those so bad. Both birds would love it. America gets all the cool bird things. That looks like about $15 worth of plumbing tubes and a couple of suction cups that you can get from a fish supply store.
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Nov 20, 2012 02:31
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Battle Pigeon posted:etc they're just not available at all here. Where is here?
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Nov 20, 2012 10:49
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SaNChEzZ posted:I think he's broken, he never plays with his toys while I'm at work, but instead just sits on his perches, napping or preening, but as soon as we're home the toys get mangled. Birds. Squirts almost the opposite. When he thinks we arent looking he will happily play with nearly anything, though preferably something he can grab and pick up with one foot, and throw off whatever surface he is on. Usually once he throws something off and we turn to see what the noise is, we get a look like "what? I wasnt doing anything. Im just sitting here preening" Im pretty sure this is to hide the fact he sometimes chews on his own foot while playing.
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Nov 21, 2012 01:34
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 That look.
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Nov 30, 2012 09:53
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Battle Pigeon posted:Would it be jumping on the bandwagon/rude/whatever if I posted my own bird art in here now/at some point? Also, apparently its a wild bird Brother Jonathan posted:From the source: "my friend left her window open in her bedroom and came back to find this look at his self-satisfied little face, the cheeky poo poo. motherfucking australia"
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Dec 1, 2012 07:47
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Wizard of Smart posted:Mickey does this and it's hilarious, I thought he was broke. He'll hold onto his tail while trying to do other things sometimes too. Squirt will sometimes try and wrestle with small objects. He really seems to like dental picks and ball point pens, and will hold them in his foot and try to bite them at the same time, leading to him sqwarking when some jerk bites his foot.
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Dec 10, 2012 01:50
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Was out at dinner at my Mums house last night, and if you step out the back door, and look slightly up and to the right, you can see the nest where a dove of some sort has laid a couple of eggs. I will try and get some better photos next time im over there.
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Dec 12, 2012 01:01
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Joe Don Baker posted:I always feel like a bad parent when I put my bird to bed. It's like I'm totally ruining his night. Squirt makes such a heart breaking little peep whenever we leave the house.
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Dec 18, 2012 04:54
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Official Bizness posted:Forgot to buy more Harrison's this weekend, so Zeke and Zoe are enjoying a bean and pasta supper. Content little warks filling the room. We have sort of trained Squirt to give kisses and normally its all fun and games and hilarious and cute, but sometimes he wants to give kisses right after eating and his face is covered in wet/dry mix and bird I dont want to eat that. On the plus side, I have almost finished the outdoor aviary, so he can from his little indoor cage to a 1.2m*.9m*1.5m cage and be much happier. Just gotta finished the door, and then get all the planted stuff settled before we move him in. Hoping to fill it full of stuff he can eat like as well. Problem being that now we need to make the aviary dog proof as well.
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Jan 15, 2013 04:50
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Well thats just a poo poo choice to make. Condolences. Im all in favour of not prolonging pain and suffering.
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Jan 17, 2013 05:34
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Scary Ned posted:Do not ever, ever, EVER trust your terrier near your bird. In my experience they are more dangerous than cats. Terriers just seem to have a "KILL!" switch in their little heads. Generation after generation of breeding for that specific purpose is a tough thing to overcome. We have an Am Staff as well, and there has been a few OH poo poo moments (like today when the bird started screaming and my partner started yelling and it turns out the dog was just standing on Squirt by accident) but its been a few weeks with them both now, and the dog is starting to get the idea that eating the bird is a no no. Of course, once they do get acclimatised to each other, there is going to be a saddle made, and a tiny hat and the bird is going to ride the dog and its going to be awesome.
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Jan 22, 2013 12:47
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So do you guys have some ideas for homemade stuff to put in an outdoor cage? I have got a whole bunch of branches and stuff, and the toys from his last cage, but there is just so much more space to fill.
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Jan 28, 2013 04:46
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SaNChEzZ posted:I'm super jelly of your sink, it looks like it doesn't have one of those stupid center dividers. And that's rad if so. Wait what why? I hate single sinks. How do you rinse the soap off after you have finished washing?
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Feb 7, 2013 03:53
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How hard does he bite?
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Feb 11, 2013 06:17
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I really want to know how loud those guys are in real life because Squirt is pretty drat loud, and now he just sort of blends into the background noise, and its weird when he isnt chattering away or whistling to us/himself. It still hurts when he is on my shoulder and my partner comes home and he starts calling for her as loud as possible. Side note, I got him a bigger bird bath and he loves it on hot days. Gonna try and take a video of him frolicking, and just falling off it like he did yesterday, because its hilarious.
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Feb 27, 2013 03:57
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SaNChEzZ posted:I want to live where wild birds regurgitate for my bird, but giant spiders and stuff. Meh, you get used to them. Its the smaller redbacks that you need to worry about. The giant clockspiders dont hurt humans, but do a drat good job of keeping insects at bay.
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Feb 27, 2013 04:27
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Lenswork posted:DOGPILE 
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Mar 1, 2013 07:53
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When my partner and I kiss each other hello Squirt feels left out, so he has been joining in and making kissy noises, only he was a bit of a jerk today, and made kissy noises then bit me on my lip, and then laughed at me. Such a jerk bird.
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Mar 9, 2013 04:45
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Eejit posted:Woah you can do a blood test to determine the sex of your bird? Our boy is 15, has obviously never laid an egg, and has black eyes (female umbrella cockatoos tend to go reddish) so we just assume he's male, but we were always told sexing a bird was some sort of invasive surgery. drat I think you can send a feather off somewhere and they can DNA test from that, but Im not 100% sure.
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Mar 12, 2013 05:42
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Meme Emulator posted:What is the commonly held wisdom with birds and dogs? We have a foster Am Staff mix right now, and to be honest, the dog is scared of the bird. We can leave them alone for a little bit, and its very doubtful that anything would happen, but we still dont leave them alone for long amounts of time, because, as you say, all it takes is one quick mood change, one swipe and then its tragedy.
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Mar 19, 2013 00:28
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Wizard of Smart posted:Oh man. Giant bird phone. Surely the reception must be ok with that size antenna
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Mar 28, 2013 12:46
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Tasty_Crayon posted:Ahahahaha, you are likely to find a bird in your dinner, helping itself. The only way I can keep squirt away from my dinner is by shutting him in his cage, which we try not to do, because its hilarious watching how sneaky he tries to be when attempting to steal the food. Which brings up another point. He loves chicken. Should I discourage him eating his cousins?
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Apr 12, 2013 07:15
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Its not just derpatiels that do it. Squirt was in his cage, and tried to jump up onto the next perch, only missed and face planted on the bottom, very quickly got up, looked around and started preening himself as if to say "no, you didnt see anything, I was doing this all along"
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Apr 15, 2013 06:58
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Squirt has just found out that toes are evil as well, but it only if I stand in specific areas of the house. It's not too bad so far, and usually he just sort of nibbles and it tickles a bit. Once he charged full throttle and bit as hard as possible, right into the leather shoe I was wearing. Got a nasty look for that
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Apr 24, 2013 00:11
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Hi bird crazies, I went on holiday and saw some birds. Enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXxnjGPjLkc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Apr 30, 2013 00:43
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This fukken thread. I cant handle these ups and downs =(
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electricgoat posted:
I dont think its a bad thing that the cage is rearranged either. Keeps things new and fresh for the bird, especially if they are shut in there for long amounts of time.
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Jun 8, 2013 02:59
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electricgoat posted:
This is not why PETA is pretty lovely. The amount of animals they kill each year is truly astounding.
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Jun 18, 2013 03:39
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electricgoat posted:
Some birds are ground feeders, so they will naturally feel ok on the ground. For others, who eat in trees and rarely come to the ground, its a place of evil.
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BlueDiablo posted:Not sure if this has been covered, but has anyone had any experience with owning a dog alongside a green-cheek conure? Our last ferret died recently, and the wife has been wanting to get a dog for years, and it seems like now might be an opportune time. We were looking for something (obviously) with a low prey drive, like a pug, french bulldog, chihuahua, something smallish along those lines. But, at the end of the day, I'm absolutely terrified that the dog (or bird) might just decide "you know what? gently caress this fool" and go after Bird before we have a chance to react. Can they at least be trained to a point where they'd just ignore one another? I'm not expecting that the Bird will ride around on the dog or anything silly like that, just a minimum of bird-death, since the other alternative is to keep them separated in our tiny one-bedroom apartment, a situation that is unfair to both animals in my opinion. We have a foster Am Staff and a rainbow lorikeet, and its going well so far. My partner rescued the lori first, and we had him for probably a year and a bit before we started fostering dogs. We had a couple of staffys that were very interested in squirt, so we kept them very separate. We got our current dog over 8 months ago now (there is a post in the staffy thread about it that was done maybe a month after we got him) and they are at the point where Diesel keeps his distance from the bird, because the bird is a jerk and gives no shits and does his little backwards attack waddle and runs up and bites the dog if he is lying down in the wrong spot. We still dont leave them alone in a room together for very long. Most of the rooms we spend a lot of time in have clutter that the bird loves playing in and the dog cant get through, plus Squirt is always climbing up on desks and stuff and is out of reach a lot. Its doable. Take your time, make sure the dog knows very well that the bird is off limits, and keep you eye on them when they are in the same room.
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electricgoat posted:Frogmanv2: Thanks! Someone a few pages back told me parrotlets aren't ground foragers. I've let her explore a bit around the top of her cage, but we don't have a lot of high up places that I feel comfortable putting her (because we have junk piled everywhere). Is it wrong to be encouraging her to explore the ground? Should I clean off higher up places? Or should I just let her explore when she's ready to? Its only wrong if you are forcing Bird to do something she doesnt want to do. I dont see the issue in letting her waddle round if she wants to. Keep in mind that it can be a useful thing to keep her wary of the ground, because that can become a painfree way of disciplining the bird. I forget who but there is someone in this thread who uses the ground as a time out zone when their bird does something wrong like bite too hard. The bird gets told "No" and is put on the ground where they are uncomfortable, and learns not to bite too hard,hopefully. Let her explore when she is ready to.
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electricgoat posted:Frogmanv2: I'm definitely not forcing her to do anything, but I am encouraging her. Maybe I'll lay off it a little, but I really do want her more comfortable around the apartment before I move and she's stuck with my roommate. Meh, do what makes her happy. I finally dug up some photos of the two miscreants together as well   Pretty sure diesel got up and walked away at that point.
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Battle Pigeon posted:Not long now until I get to see my two feathered fiends again. I'm thinking of surprising them by hiding in another room and staying quiet so they'll fly in without realising I'm there, but any other suggestions are welcome. I wonder how angry Ohtori will be with me this time, and if Steve will be as well Hah, there is exactly zero chance of this happening, if your birds are anything like Squirt. He has learned the sound of my partners car driving up the driveway, and starts going nuts fairly shortly afterwards.
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Slinky Weasel posted:So what's the best way to get bird flying after having its wings clipped for a while? I got my GCC back in January and his wings were clipped. His feathers are finally grown back enough to fly, and I know he can. He'll only fly in emergencies like if there's a scary noise or, god forbid, I leave his line of sight. I've tried to lure him to fly by holding out his favorite treat but the farthest he's gotten is flapping his wings. When he does take flight it's not very controlled, but he can gain altitude. Stick him on your finger and turn in circles. He will get the sensation of wind and he can control his grip. Bonus points if you spin, fall over and the bird lands on you. Then poops.
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Hobo Camp posted:I never knew birds could love so much. My mom made the mistake of calling me at work last week and putting me on speaker and now EVERY morning she has to call me because Arya wants to hear my voice. Apparently Nico starts bobbing and shaking when he hears me, too I get advanced warning of whenever my partner gets home, because the dog starts going nuts, and Squirt starts whistling and contact calling and hopping along to the front room. This happens before she even gets out of her car.
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