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
Doesn't even have to be a good one!
Calm down, I'm kidding. It's just one of those days. All those times before when I asked, "could Chicken be starting puberty?", you guys should have slapped me. Then you should have told me that if I had to ask, no she wasn't. Now I know.
And oh my goodness. She is a handful. Some days she is still as sweet as can be. She will come out and get everyone's breakfast and clean water dishes with me, just like she always has. Or, like the other day, she'll step up out of her cage just fine, sit on my wrist just fine. Then we'll be halfway across the room and out of nowhere she'll reach down and bite the crap out of me.
I've had to change out the bowls in her cage, so that all of them are locking bowls now. She's been throwing full blown temper tantrums in her cage, dumping food and water all over while she screams. Although she still gets food everywhere, she keeps scratching like she's trying to nest in her food dish. Between the thrown food and the temper tantrums, it really is like the terrible twos with a toddler.
Plus she's been so unpredictably nippy lately, that even she has started saying, "don't bite your mom." She hasn't really gotten under anything "nesty" yest, but she has definitely been trying to get off her play stands a lot more. I just try to get her as soon as she hits the floor, because I'd rather do that than wait and find out if she is going to try to run under something I'd rather not have to dig her out of. Although, sometimes it's dangerous to even go near her cage. There have been a few occasions that even walking past her cage, she fluffs up and starts growling as I walk past.
The demon is really starting to come out in my little cuddly Chicken.
Calm down, I'm kidding. It's just one of those days. All those times before when I asked, "could Chicken be starting puberty?", you guys should have slapped me. Then you should have told me that if I had to ask, no she wasn't. Now I know.
And oh my goodness. She is a handful. Some days she is still as sweet as can be. She will come out and get everyone's breakfast and clean water dishes with me, just like she always has. Or, like the other day, she'll step up out of her cage just fine, sit on my wrist just fine. Then we'll be halfway across the room and out of nowhere she'll reach down and bite the crap out of me.
I've had to change out the bowls in her cage, so that all of them are locking bowls now. She's been throwing full blown temper tantrums in her cage, dumping food and water all over while she screams. Although she still gets food everywhere, she keeps scratching like she's trying to nest in her food dish. Between the thrown food and the temper tantrums, it really is like the terrible twos with a toddler.
Plus she's been so unpredictably nippy lately, that even she has started saying, "don't bite your mom." She hasn't really gotten under anything "nesty" yest, but she has definitely been trying to get off her play stands a lot more. I just try to get her as soon as she hits the floor, because I'd rather do that than wait and find out if she is going to try to run under something I'd rather not have to dig her out of. Although, sometimes it's dangerous to even go near her cage. There have been a few occasions that even walking past her cage, she fluffs up and starts growling as I walk past.
The demon is really starting to come out in my little cuddly Chicken.
lol....Ya,it sucks big time when they start to run amok...poor Chicken..but imagine what SHE is feeling...especially if this is her first hormonal incident..."Geeez...what the HECK is wrong with me??" growl...nip...bite...chew 
