What do you do to spoil your Conure?

[Aratingettar]

One of the last SunnyGirl's posts in the January POTM topic have inspired me to ask a general question: what do you do to spoil your Conure?



I'll go first:
I wear my yellow Swiss-Cheese style "Cutty Sark" T-Shirt, and let her dive under. And I give her head & neck scritches. Plenty of scritches, actually. And kisses And I share some of my homemade-pizza crust with her. Last but not least, sometimes I let her "steal" a bit of butter.

 

[GaleriaGila]

Oooooooh, what DON'T I do? Yep, t-shirt diving, scritches, scraps... works for us. The biggest spoiling gig is probably the constant flow of green chile peppers!

 

[Laurasea]

Millit, and crunchy toast. Ta-dah loves to crunch destroy toast, doesn't eat it just ripps it up. And sneaky bedtime cuddles after the rest if the flock is asleep.

 

[Rudustin]

I spoil Muffin (Golden Conure) endlessly. He needs cuddle time once in the morning, once in the afternoon and a lot at night. He needs to eat one green seedless grape a day and I can get him to do almost anything to have that grape. He gets to chew my earlobe, go for scooter rides, play in a small tree in a park at the end of my drive way, eat some of my breakfast toast in the morning, car rides in his carrier, kisses and kisses back, hang from my shirt like a piece of jewelry and chew on my phone cover. He also get's to go to Starbucks and have a tiny piece of my lemon loaf and he gets to crawl all over me like a tree! Other than that he isn't spoiled at all!

 

[Aratingettar]

Other than that he isn't spoiled at all!

Sorry but I don't buy it. He must be the happiest, most loved and massively spoiled Golden Conure in the world

 

[T00tsyd]

Oh gosh what don't I do? Cuddles are the latest with me singing until my throat is sore. He will sit for ages in my cupped hands just so long as I sing. I hide treats in his day cage and am always amazed as he always finds them no matter how hard I try to trick him. I can tell from the way he looks at me that he knows he's my better.

I let him march around pushing anything light enough onto the floor while he cocks his head expecting me to pick them up for him to do the same thing again and again.

He hates water sprays but always tells me when he expects his bath to appear at the bottom of his cage. He then splashes a storm everywhere and as soon as he is soaking wet he plays up until I let him climb behind my head to dry off where it's warm while I get soaked.

Reading this back I realise once again that he has me so well trained!

 

[SunnyGirl]

One of the last SunnyGirl's posts in the January POTM topic have inspired me to ask a general question: what do you do to spoil your Conure?

it was the first pic, wasn't it, eh, eh?


ugh, well apparently too much but the diva basically rules the home, when she wants a banana she gets a banana, she can be very persuasive while begging for one, it's hilarious!
also we have this very detailed putting.the.bird.to.bed routine of whispering and telling her she's a good bird and ''good girls go to sleep'' and she started to murmur it back to me, kisses, good nights andwhatnot before she even thinks of going to sleep... oh the horror on days when me or my mum aren't at home to do this and gramps is covering her cage...

 

[clark_conure]

Basically they are always on me. and I set up a feeding/water/toy station in front of my keyboard for all my office and entertainment time.

I go to work when they sleep and amazingly without a cover they are silent when I nap, so long as they can see me and I'm not off doing something without them.

I have the BEST GIRLS IN THE WORLD!!! (yes I'm still not over the DNA stuff)

 

[Kalel]

Mine is a spoiled brat. I'm trying to figure out ways to un-spoil him!

 

[Aratingettar]

Oh gosh what don't I do? Cuddles are the latest with me singing until my throat is sore. He will sit for ages in my cupped hands just so long as I sing.

Oh what a lovely way to spoil a Conure!

also we have this very detailed putting.the.bird.to.bed routine of whispering and telling her she's a good bird and ''good girls go to sleep'' and she started to murmur it back to me

Heh.. Same with Cytrynka.. when I put her to sleep, I say byebye to her many times, and she "murmurs back" -- she is not a talker, but you can clearly hear proper intonation. By the way, I love the voice she uses then. Kind of "quacky", really sweet!

I have the BEST GIRLS IN THE WORLD!!!

Yeah, I can see you're proud daddy of two cute girlies Now your responsibility is even bigger than before!

Mine is a spoiled brat. I'm trying to figure out ways to un-spoil him!

Please do not hesitate to share these ways to un-spoil, when you'll finally find any. Meanwhile... keep spoiling your lovely brat!

 

[Rudustin]

Other than that he isn't spoiled at all!

Sorry but I don't buy it. He must be the happiest, most loved and massively spoiled Golden Conure in the world

You're right he is totally spoiled and on top of that he loves to go to the studio with me (I am a dance teacher) in his portable cage. He loves the music and of course most of the students want to pet him and give him treats and just talk to him so he is completely entertained. Only problem is the students get distracted!

 

[Aratingettar]

Other than that he isn't spoiled at all!

Sorry but I don't buy it. He must be the happiest, most loved and massively spoiled Golden Conure in the world

You're right he is totally spoiled and on top of that he loves to go to the studio with me (I am a dance teacher) in his portable cage. He loves the music and of course most of the students want to pet him and give him treats and just talk to him so he is completely entertained. Only problem is the students get distracted!

Indeed he can't complain on lack of entertainment

 

[SassiBird]

I let them steal food off my plate. I do draw the line at tromping through my food. They have to stay off the plate and steal from the edges. Practically, that means I have to make sure they eat a good meal of their own birdie foods before I can eat, because I don't want them filling up on people food. And I watch what they steal. There's three of them, two are carb-aholics and one is a velociraptor carnivore.

 

[Sunnyclover]

I've tried posting on this thread a few times but whatever I type up doesn't seem to truely explain everything I do for them and how much I spoil them so I'm going to tell one single story about what just literally happened while I was typing this very sentence.
Finley is on the top of his cage eating his evening half tsp of seeds we lable as 6pm "seeds time". When anyone says the word "seeds" they're met with much excitement and screaming even if it's at 9am. Anyways, Finley is on his cage top. I look over and he's staring at me and doing a slow flap as close to me as he can get (he's quite big and knows I can hear it) and I look over and see him and I know what he's asking for. He wants me to get his bowl of water from his cage (he has water in his cage and not on the top of his cage to promote excecise) and give him a drink of it. I get the water and he flaps in approval and happily takes a drink and offers his beak for a kiss as my reward. I put the water back downstairs in his cage and he goes on eating. So yeah....hope this gives you an idea of how I treat and spoil my Conures.

 

[Kalel]

I let them steal food off my plate. I do draw the line at tromping through my food. They have to stay off the plate and steal from the edges. Practically, that means I have to make sure they eat a good meal of their own birdie foods before I can eat, because I don't want them filling up on people food. And I watch what they steal. There's three of them, two are carb-aholics and one is a velociraptor carnivore.

You LET them? I have no choice

 

[SunnyGirl]

haha, my chicken is in her cage when we eat, she was never allowed to be out while food is on the table... we have had a budgie that was crazy in love with lettuce and would fly into the salad bowl and bathe in it every time there was one on the table... it's very fun to wash the oil, salt and vinegar from the bird after it bathed in the salad... security meassure... Sunny is crazy enough to want to go sit directly in the middle of a full and very hot plate of soup but her cage is in the dining room beside the table and she always eats with us, just not on the table

 

[Aratingettar]

I let them steal food off my plate.

Something in the hooman food must be very tempting for our Conures. Now frequently I find myself to cage Cytrynka during our meals dinnertime, as otherwise you'd need to have an eyes around your head to prevent her from stealing foods. It's hilarious how she can spot a tiny piece of butter to steal


@Sunnyclover: I can't really believe how good your birbs behave. And the kiss back.. heart melting for sure

 

[Aratingettar]

You're right he is totally spoiled and on top of that he loves to go to the studio with me (I am a dance teacher) in his portable cage. He loves the music and of course most of the students want to pet him and give him treats and just talk to him so he is completely entertained. Only problem is the students get distracted!

Wow.. so you're a Dance teacher?

That means, probably Topaz can learn a lot from Muffin!


[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3XJ4Zio-dw"]Topaz the Golden Conure dancing. - YouTube[/ame]


Isn't he lovely? Those moves...

 

[Sunnyclover]

@Aratingettar

REALLY? Since when are my birds well behaved? What a complement...wow thanks! I do try like really really hard with them on a daily basis. But I wouldn't have thought they would beabed as "well behaved".

 

[SassiBird]

... it's very fun to wash the oil, salt and vinegar from the bird after it bathed in the salad...

Oh, no! Mine always want to steal the thing that is going to make the biggest mess. Last night it was the tortilla chip with the biggest glob of spinach dip. I know they are going to drop 99% of it, but at least they aren't coated in salad dressing. YIKES! You win!