Kiwibird
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- Jul 12, 2012
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- 1 BFA- Kiwi. Hatch circa 98', forever home with us Dec. 08'
Yesterday, I washed Kiwi's cage (with the perches in it, so they could get power hosed too). After letting it dry, I did go through an make sure all his perches were tight and securely attached (they seemed to be). This morning after I woke up (before Kiwi was up), I hear him make his usual "feather shuffle" when I turned on the lights in th kitchen, immediately followed by a few flaps and a thud. I ran over and pulled back the cage covers and see him on the floor of his cage absolutely stunned. I tried putting my hand in to get him out and it was like I wasn't even there. I tried looking around his cage (in the still pretty dark living room) to try and see what happened, and stepped on the end cap of the rope perch he sleeps on and once I realized what it was, sure enough the perch was dangling loose. He eventually got on my hand and I looked him over to make sure he wasn't hurt. Thankfully he was just really frightened, but not injured. When I went to unscrew the other end of the perch, it literally just slid off. I noticed the inside of the cap was still wet, and it basically worked like a lubricant to keep it from screwing together properly. The caps seemed to screw on fine again after I dried it (though I will be replacing it just to be safe). I just wanted to warn others to be sure to dry the insides of those caps after you wash your birds cages so your babies don't get the fright of falling off their perch in the dark.