OutlawedSpirit
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- Apr 12, 2016
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- Parrots
- Bo - DYH ~ Gus - CAG ~ Twitch - Linnie ~ Apple - Pineapple GCC ~ Goliath - Quaker ~ Squish - Peach face Lovebird
So Gus, although technically not my bird, is still one of my feathered masters. He is my wife's baby, but since she works and I stay home with the birds and homeschool our daughter, I get ALL of the joys of parronthood. Feeding the finicky, cleaning the palaces, repairing and replacing boring and worn out toys. You know the drill. All to be completely ignored by the red-butt when someone better gets home from work. Sigh. And for all that I still love the grouch.
I'm just kidding really. Gus is actually an incredibly sweet bird. We've had him since the middle of August and he hatched July 15, 2017. Since he was the only big baby we had, and we had to put a grate over the wood chips because he was a naughty baby, we gave him a piece of folded up fleece to snuggle with in his tote like he would have with the other chicks in his clutch. He was absolutely in love with his blankie! Even when me moved into his big boy cage, he had it for a while, and would carry it around in his beak like a little kid.
Since we had him from such a young age, we worked with harness training from the start as well. It definitely took a little bit for him to grow into his harness, but it paid off in a lot less bloodshed than there could have been!
There will be more to come soon, as I get more of Gus's pictures rotated, as this will be his thread. I'm done typing for now anyway, I can't hold him and type at the same time and he just wandered over.
I'm just kidding really. Gus is actually an incredibly sweet bird. We've had him since the middle of August and he hatched July 15, 2017. Since he was the only big baby we had, and we had to put a grate over the wood chips because he was a naughty baby, we gave him a piece of folded up fleece to snuggle with in his tote like he would have with the other chicks in his clutch. He was absolutely in love with his blankie! Even when me moved into his big boy cage, he had it for a while, and would carry it around in his beak like a little kid.
Since we had him from such a young age, we worked with harness training from the start as well. It definitely took a little bit for him to grow into his harness, but it paid off in a lot less bloodshed than there could have been!
There will be more to come soon, as I get more of Gus's pictures rotated, as this will be his thread. I'm done typing for now anyway, I can't hold him and type at the same time and he just wandered over.