Rosie's angry and grumpy

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.

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And here's her normal roosting spot. She was super sleepy, seconds away from tucking her head in

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faeryphoebe1

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Awww, she's such a smart special girl! She's so lucky to have you, Ashley. You really love that little doll. They are amazingly intelligent, aren't they?

Yesterday, after I came home from work, I gave Sunny scritches through the cage and before I could go on over and say "hi" to Trixie, my husband pulled me away with something that he needed. Well, needless to say, Trix held a grudge and nipped me a couple of times during out of cage time yesterday. By this morning, she seemed to have forgiven the slight. :D
 
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Thanks Emily - I do love her, so so much :heart:

lol I once read that our parrots are much more tolerant of us than we know. They let us get away with so many things, and then when we forget something that is really important to them they get very angry. I'm really glad that Trixie forgave you, it's so sad when they are angry with us.
 

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Grumpy or not, she's so cute! Boris has that same perch. I wish he would go on it more! He has a severe case of chornic dagger-nails. :\

Why isn't Rosie allowed to sleep on hers?
 
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Grumpy or not, she's so cute! Boris has that same perch. I wish he would go on it more! He has a severe case of chornic dagger-nails. :\

Why isn't Rosie allowed to sleep on hers?
I remember when Rosie used to have daggers for nails, my hand was always covered in scratches... doing the dishes always stung lol Does Boris let you touch his feet? Maybe he'll let you file them to blunt them a bit.

Rosie isn't allowed to sleep on her safety pumice perch because she sits on the ankle of her bad leg. thee smooth top of the safety pumice is then useless and hits her already thin skin.

you can see how she stands on her feet in this photo
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I take Boris to get his nails filed once a month; no way he would tolerate me doing that without restraint (and I don't trust myself not to hurt him or draw it out too long). No biggie. But I swear he sharpens them somehow!! It's been two weeks since his last trim and they're already getting pretty sharp.
 

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I have one umbrella cockatoo. A female 3 years old named Mina.
My U2 is in love with a pumice perch. I couldn't get her to sleep on the rope or wood perches. She seems to like the color of the perch it's bright pink. So I sent away for 6 rolls of bright pink vet tape and I tape her perch. Whenever it's soiled. I change it. I never realized how bad they were for birds to sleep on till I saw a vet give a talk on them. So now she can have her perch without the damage of the pumice. The vet tape is kind of soft too.
 

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