Right now, it's the over-preening and plucking he's doing. I thought I had it under control until a few months ago when I allowed his previous owner to visit him. But after the previous owner left, he's been none stop going to town on his feathers.
Mike was that a rescue bird? what a stressful situation he must have been in for a visit to regress him like that ... that's tough.
when my baby birds start to learn how to fly, they crash into walls, doors etc...then drop to the floor.
That's got to be so hard to see happen ... :11:
I'm almost embarrassed to admit it....but I truly wish my Ripley would learn his inner "quiet" voice rather than the ungodly CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW CAW ..... :54:
Wait, parrots have an "inside voice"?
I don't have any conure complaints, but one of my budgies humps various things (including broccoli) many times a day, and tries my hand if he's on there long. After 8 years he hasn't slowed down one bit. It's embarrassing and ridiculous, but he's thriving so I guess it's good for him.
I had to remove the furniture knobs because I got tired of constantly cleaning the little spots of semen (omg) that he gets on them after he humps.
OH, let's not even start with THIS topic. My GCC, um, 'takes care of her own business' a LOT ... luckily she's a female so there isn't anything to "clean up" but she makes a very distinct noise when she does it ... so annoying!!! UGH!
Definitely the morning wake up call: "EEEEEEEEEE-EEEEEEEE!!!!!" over and over...I dont mind during the week, but on the weekends, it would be nice to sleep in past 7 am! I've even kept them up late to see if they would sleep in later...no dice.
I hate the "no snooze button" alarm clock ... if only they would learn that we need a different schedule on Saturday and Sundays!
The Beaks insist on eating my glasses. They've already nibbled off the plastic casing over the earpieces and roughed up the nosepads so I've had to sandpaper them. I'm very much afraid one of them is going to crack the lenses one day! I shouldn't complain... there are days when no one touches my glasses. But then, on other days, they do and I worry.
Between infants, and parrots, I've gone through 6 pairs of glasses in the last 4 years - my optometrist's office loves me ...
I wish my Duskies wouldn't amp up the minute I receive a business call. It never fails.
Every time I'm on the phone Jackie feels the need to chime in with his deafening screaming AHHHH AHHHHH AHHHHH AHHHHH!!!!!!!! so, any time I need to be on the phone I have to go
Hamlet, my sun conure, does the same thing ... phone goes to my ear she will either start squawking, or will fly to me and start chewing on my phone ... do you think Otterbox tests their cases against parrot's beaks?
Turtle won't leave my nails alone. Drives me crazy.
Did you know that the keratin sheath that pin feathers grow in in are basically the same material that our nails are made out of? You can't blame Turtle for trying to help his favorite person get rid of those HUGE pesky, and irritating, pin feathers that you constantly have. Take the nail thing as a sign of love.
Last week we had a smoke detector malfunction thanks to minor electrical surges (from a terrible storm) and we had a good 5 minutes of ear-piercing alarms that would.not.stop. There was obviously no fire, so we had to just wait it out and everything was fine once the storm passed and the electric started behaving again...
EXCEPT the fact that three of the birds learned in those 5 minutes how to become a smoke detector. I can't tell you how many times in the past week I've almost gone to take off running to see what's going on before I realize they're toying with me... brats.
Oh, that's got to be a pain in the you-know-what!!
One of my biggest pet peeves on forums is when people start a thread, and other members take the time to answer and the original poster never comes back to follow it up. Thanks everyone for the fun stories!
