spaceparrot
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- Jun 1, 2016
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- Two cockatiels: Sharlett (Cinnamon Pied) and Data (White-Faced Pied)
The only thing I've seen Data more scared of than bathtime is loud noises and the man who sprayed our house for bugs. (When Data first saw him, he ran up me so fast he almost tripped and did a cartwheel!)
But because I'm fighting the war on dust mites (my dad, mom, and I are all allergic to dust mites and I have asthma), I know I need to bathe them more. I'm not sure if dust mites will feed off of powdered down but I don't want to take any chances. It's also good for their health and their breathing when I bathe them. We did so a few weeks back when Sharlett was still laying eggs. She was scared but did some normal "bird things" in the sink. She wouldn't bathe herself but she did poke around a bit. Data, on the other hand, was TERRIFIED! He let us bathe him eventually but he would try to leave the sink and climb on us. Sharlett got more of a bath than he did.
Data has been our hydrophobe since day 1. He will drink water but he is scared of my new fish tank and "bath" is a four letter word to him. I may have made things worse by spraying him directly with the sprayer bottle because I didn't understand how to mist them yet.
Do you have any recommendations on how to get these two to bathe?
But because I'm fighting the war on dust mites (my dad, mom, and I are all allergic to dust mites and I have asthma), I know I need to bathe them more. I'm not sure if dust mites will feed off of powdered down but I don't want to take any chances. It's also good for their health and their breathing when I bathe them. We did so a few weeks back when Sharlett was still laying eggs. She was scared but did some normal "bird things" in the sink. She wouldn't bathe herself but she did poke around a bit. Data, on the other hand, was TERRIFIED! He let us bathe him eventually but he would try to leave the sink and climb on us. Sharlett got more of a bath than he did.
Data has been our hydrophobe since day 1. He will drink water but he is scared of my new fish tank and "bath" is a four letter word to him. I may have made things worse by spraying him directly with the sprayer bottle because I didn't understand how to mist them yet.
Do you have any recommendations on how to get these two to bathe?