Featheredsamurai
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Rosie LOVES her safety pumice perch, and I don't mind her sitting on it during the day since she changes perches a lot, but at night she has been determined to roost there. So what I do is hold the Safety pumice perch, unscrew it, then hold the perch up to her normal roosting spot and she steps right off and goes to sleep. Well, last night she was not having any of that! I was trying to hold one end of the perch and she would race over and lunge at my hand biting it hard. Finally I just dealt with her biting and was able to move her to her sleeping roost where she then stopped biting me and stepped off the safety pumice. I should also add that that day she'd been extremely moody and short tempered.
Ok, so everything is fine now that she's on her sleeping perch. BIG MISTAKE. I should have just left her be and removed the perch in the morning. Today she's been really angry at me, she'll be sitting on her door(where she sits when she wants to go on her java perch) and when I walk over she would either glare at me, or climb back into her cage then give me the cold shoulder. I feel bad that I ignored her telling me no, I'm always so good about respecting her decisions, but I was worried about her bad leg getting pressure sores again after they just finished healing. I removed her safety pumice perch today and put it back in her outside cage.
Now in the evening it seems she's forgiven me some, she is letting me pet her, and purring for me :heart:
Sharing this story so no one else makes the same stupid mistake. We always have to remember that our birds are intelligent sentient creatures and should be allowed to make some of their own decisions. It's our responsibility to set them up for success and I failed by giving her a perch she couldn't roost on.
Here she is taking a nap on the offending safety pumice perch during the day. I really do love this perch, and so does she. It's very unfortunate that he bad leg sits in a unnatural way making this perch damaging if used for extended periods of time(like sleeping all night on it). She sits on her bad legs ankle.
And here's her normal roosting spot. She was super sleepy, seconds away from tucking her head in
Ok, so everything is fine now that she's on her sleeping perch. BIG MISTAKE. I should have just left her be and removed the perch in the morning. Today she's been really angry at me, she'll be sitting on her door(where she sits when she wants to go on her java perch) and when I walk over she would either glare at me, or climb back into her cage then give me the cold shoulder. I feel bad that I ignored her telling me no, I'm always so good about respecting her decisions, but I was worried about her bad leg getting pressure sores again after they just finished healing. I removed her safety pumice perch today and put it back in her outside cage.
Now in the evening it seems she's forgiven me some, she is letting me pet her, and purring for me :heart:
Sharing this story so no one else makes the same stupid mistake. We always have to remember that our birds are intelligent sentient creatures and should be allowed to make some of their own decisions. It's our responsibility to set them up for success and I failed by giving her a perch she couldn't roost on.
Here she is taking a nap on the offending safety pumice perch during the day. I really do love this perch, and so does she. It's very unfortunate that he bad leg sits in a unnatural way making this perch damaging if used for extended periods of time(like sleeping all night on it). She sits on her bad legs ankle.
And here's her normal roosting spot. She was super sleepy, seconds away from tucking her head in
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