My experience with my CAG

[apatrimo94]

How lovely, Cocoa sure seems to be loved everywhere she goes! Whatta lucky little birdy!

 

[Erithacus]

Video of Cocoa hiking.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvlvpUwpIVc]YouTube - African Grey goes jungle hiking[/ame]

 

[Erithacus]

One of Cocoa's favourite treats.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of-2qvxLQC8]YouTube - African Grey chewing sugarcane[/ame]

 

[Erithacus]

We have not met before and we do not know each other. We are total stranger but this guy left his less than 2 months old grey with me to pet sit. He has to go on a business trip to oversea. We'll be caring this baby for 5 days.

I don't know how he took care of this baby. There were food stuck in her nostrils and hardened food on her body. We received this grey at 10.30pm yesterday and the 1st thing we did was to remove the hardened food in her nostrils.

This is the 1st time we pet sit a bird.

We got up at 5.30am this morning. There she is. She got up earlier than us.

Feeding the baby.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8_PnyzuZMs]YouTube - Feeding African Grey[/ame]

 

[Erithacus]

After feeding.

My wife spent more than 1 hour cleaning up the chick.
After clean up.

 

[antoinette]

Cocoa sure enjoyed the hike, looks so happy and content.
Thanks for sharing so much with us, I enjoyed the video's very much.
The pictures are so beautiful, of the little AG, brings back many memories when I hand reared my AG Mishka, something one will never forget and always treasure.

 

[Erithacus]

4th day with us.

Sleeping beauty.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geaFmKjYACg]YouTube - Sleeping Beauty[/ame]

 

[Erithacus]

Day 5. Harness training. lol

 

[Erithacus]

We were meeting up with a budgie breeder at this park this morning. I ordered 2 pairs of budgies for breeding purpose. While waiting, we did some photo sessions and recall trainings.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75zylFd7WIs]YouTube - African Grey recall 1[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hy4juggETo]YouTube - African Grey recall 2[/ame]

 

[Spiritbird]

What a gorgeous, happy, healthy looking bird you have. We appreciate your photos.

 

[Bobby34231]

This thread just keeps getting better and better, Thanks for sharing

 

[Erithacus]

Strangling a Grey.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QqC_79cCGg]YouTube - Strangling a Grey[/ame]

 

[Spiritbird]

What is the purpose of squeezing a CAG's neck? I do not understand.

 

[J & K]

What is the purpose of squeezing a CAG's neck? I do not understand.

Maybe the same purpose as this:

Looks a bit like abuse.

 

[J & K]

Every time I see that vid it make me more and more mad. I don't care what country you are in, that is not right.

 

[Erithacus]

Some people got upset over this video. This is meant to be a joke. Cocoa was never hurt in the "strangulation." I posted on forums where people know Cocoa and I.
Most enjoyed the joke even though they found the title is offending. My Grey was never being abused under my care. She allows us to play with her in that manner and she enjoyed it otherwise we would be bitten. Do you think I could force her into doing that?

Only morons would use my joke to kill their parrots. Well this is my last post on this forum. I think I wont be welcome to post here anymore. Bye.

 

[Auggie's Dad]

Erithacus,

You're more than welcome - you have amazing photos and really give your grey a great life.

In the alleged "abusive" video all I see is a bird that trusts it's caregiver more than any other I have seen.

 

[greycloud]

I agree 100%!!! Don't leave, we enjoy your adventures!

 

[Aussie Ben]

aw please don't leave . Just because a few people have a problem with it doesn't mean the rest of us do. Sure, if you post stuff like that, your bound to get a few people making some comments. Many people can't touch their birds like that, so to see it happen they seem to jump to the conclusion that it is under force, but its clear that you are not 'Abusing' the bird. I really enjoy your photos and videos so please stay

 

[Erithacus]

Thanks guys for your understanding.