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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on Sept 1, 2014 9:02:23 GMT -5
There is an attachment button that no one but the admins can see. If one of them would make the button visible to us non-admins, you can just attach a pic like a file. You could do that on the old site. I don't use photobucket or any of that stuff, much easy to just attach. Anyway, yeah, Remi is doing fine. Tiels are super sweet and very loving but not the smartest parrots out there  He will make a PERFECT pet for someone that has little to no previous bird experience as he doesn't bite (just gets a little nippy when you try to get him off your shoulder), he isnt aggressive, he loves people and all he wants to do is hang out with you. He is going to be a little challenging to convert to pellets and healthy food but I think, once he comes out of quarrantine and sees Mr P eating yummies, he will too. It's the nature of the beast |
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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on Sept 2, 2014 19:40:55 GMT -5
Ok...for whatever reason I can't use my onedrive account to embed pics but I think this link will work. This is Remi. Someone please tell me if they can view these pics 1drv.ms/1qmMW5N |
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Post by Caseysmom on Sept 2, 2014 21:41:09 GMT -5
Yup! I see four cute pics! I like the second one with his crest up |
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Post by Jan and Shah on Sept 2, 2014 21:49:37 GMT -5
Can see the photos. He looks very cute and friendly.
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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on Sept 2, 2014 22:22:08 GMT -5
Awesome, thanks for checking out the pics. He is extremely friendly and sweet. He wants constant attention or else he goes in his cage and looks depressed. It's a bit tricky because he is in quarrantine and not in the same room as Mr P and I hang out in all day, he is in my bedroom. Every time I go in there I give him skritches and I have been taking him out on the screen porch and sitting with him for a bit while Mr P is inside. It's a juggling act, I think it will be easier when Remi can sit with Mr P and I.
So far, Remi and Mr P have totally ignored each others' calls, I will be curious to see what happens when they can be in the same room together.
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Post by easttex on Sept 3, 2014 6:16:41 GMT -5
Remi is a cutie! Quarantine is really hard. I ended up shaving a few days off of Peppy's, and probably wouldn't have made it as long as we did if he hadn't come from a place with lots of wild birds. I imagine Remi will be hard to part with when the time comes, but at least you know he can adapt to new people fairly easily.
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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on Sept 3, 2014 7:23:52 GMT -5
Remi was very dependent on his human. She went away to college and her parents didnt have time for him. They decided he would be better off in another home. Remi gets very depressed when you are not paying him attention. He does not know how to play with his toys. When he does come out on his own, he just sits on the door of his cage even though he has access to the playstand that came with him. Remi needs to be socialized to the point where he can entertain himself and not be so human dependent. I feel really badly for him at the moment because I dont have the time to give him all the hands on attention he craves, I wouldnt have the time even if he wasnt quarrantined. Although I interact with Mr P all day long, he does not sit on my shoulder or hand all day. He sits on his playstand next to me and plays with his toys or amuses himself until I can take a break and eat or cuddle with him. Remi will actually nip when you try to get him off your shoulder. The minute you take him out he flutters up to your shoulder, digs in and doesnt want to come off. This may be cute but it's not the sign of a mentally healthy bird. If after a few mins on your shoulder, you don't skritch his head, he will climb down and sit on your chest until you do. Again, very cute but he shouldn't need this kind of attention all day long. Anyway, he is a tiel and they ARE different from the bigger birds but I had both tiels and budgies growing up and although they were tame and friendly, they werent as needy. On the other hand, this has been a HUGE change for him and perhaps he is just so clingy because of the change. It is sad, when I am not in the room with him, he will just sit in his cage and mope until someone walks in. He is going to the vet today for his intake checkup so hopefully he will come back physically healthy. He is also on a terrible diet, budgie seed and sunflower seeds. He has never been misted before, he freaked when I tried to give him a shower. He won't bathe in a dish. He will be fine eventually as he is friendly, that helps a lot. It's sorta nice to be able to just put my hand in his cage to change his food and water without having to keep an eye on him to make sure I don't tick him off (like someone else I know) I don't think I will have a hard time parting with, tiels are really not my favorite type of bird. Although he sweet, he is also dumber than a box of rock (no offense to any tiel owners) and although Mr P has a bigger beak and bites harder, I prefer the spirit and intelligence of my quaker Remi will make a GREAT bird for someone who has no bird experience and doesnt know how to deal with biting or aggression. |
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Post by Jan and Shah on Sept 3, 2014 16:53:10 GMT -5
The interesting thing is that Remi might learn how to be a bird once he is out of quarantine and put in the same room with Mr P. He will watch Mr P and could mimic the behaviour of playing with toys, etc. Dont feel bad about leaving him - by staying with him, you may be reinforcing the behaviour. All our animals want us to stay with them 24 hours a day but it is just impossible. I am sure you will be able to help him adjust to being a "normal" bird - it might just take a little time. My beautiful pony Izzie, had not been with other ponies/horses and when we put her into a herd paddock she didnt cope well initially but now it is wonderful and she has become who she should be. And she even has a best friend who is the same size as her! Never give up and never second guess yourself - you are the right person for Remi at this stage of his journey.
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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on Sept 3, 2014 18:27:45 GMT -5
Thanks, Jan, that is EXACTLY what I am hoping. Once Remi sees how Mr P is, hopefully he will mimic him. I am hoping that concerning birdie bread, fruit and the other things I give Mr P that arent pellets.
Remi's vet check came back ok except he is malnourished. It's from eating only budgie and sunflower seed. The vet told me to start trying to convert him to pellets immediately, told me approx how much seed to give him, and to supplement with lafeber nutriberries and avicakes, which she gave me samples of. She also gave me samples of Harrison's pellets. I tried those with Mr P awhile back since I heard they were better than the Zupreme natural he is on, but he wouldnt touch them.
Tonight I put seed, pellets, avicakes and nutriberries in Remi's food dish and he looked at it like he didnt have a clue why I was putting that icky stuff in there. I know he will pick out the seed and leave everything else. I have to weigh him once a week (I was thinking daily since he's so small) to make sure he isnt starving himself. The vet told me that he wouldnt, but I'm not so sure.
We'll see.
Remi did have a chlamydia test (I misspelled that) and we wont get the results of that back for a week, but the vet told me that he MUST have a 30 day quarrantine, regardless of his test results, so that is what we will do. Hopefully at the end of quarrantine we can work on him being a "normal" bird. Although, not sure using Mr P as a role model will make him "normal"! LOL
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Post by Jan and Shah on Sept 3, 2014 23:08:54 GMT -5
Well, hopefully Remi will only pick up the good behaviour from Mr P. Once he sees Mr P eating, he may feel there is more competition for food. Swap his food over slowly. My cockatiels (and quaker) love peas and corn. I get the frozen ones and run them under hot water to soften them and then pop them into the cages. This is their evening treat. All my birds love it - in fact, Shah has a temper tantrum if it isnt the first thing I do when I get home from work. Can you try eating an avicake in front of him to see if he will take it that way? Good luck - I know it seems a bit daunting at the moment but it will be worth the effort and it is just incredible to see the changes in animals when we do make the effort. You know, every time I see Izzie (once a week), she always does something to amaze me and I realise how much we under-estimate their intelligence and personalities.
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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on Sept 4, 2014 7:33:16 GMT -5
Well I will say one thing about Remi, he is WAY more cooperative than Mr P was at the beginning. I fashioned a little perch to fit on my food scale so I could weigh him. Yesterday I just put the perch near his cage, he hissed at it for a few seconds then ignored it. Today, I put him and the perch on the scale and was able to weigh him with no problems. The little guy weighs 81 grams. Mr P won't eat frozen veggies, I tried that but I havent tried it with Remi yet.
Remi is actually getting a new cage, Florida Parrot Rescue is shipping it to me. His current cage is SO SMALL there is very little room for any extra food dishes or anything to put yummies in. No wonder the poor bird doesnt act like a bird, in such a small cage he barely has room to climb around. I've been keeping the cage door open (it swings out) and he came with a playstand so I've had the door of the cage open and he can step on the playstand if he wants to but so far he hasnt.
I'm sure eventually he will come around, it's only been a few days. I am fortunate that he is so sweet, steps right up, and even when he nips it's NOTHING compared to Mr P's!
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Post by easttex on Sept 4, 2014 8:14:57 GMT -5
Bites are relative, aren't they? I've had one really serious bite from my CAG, and numerous lesser, but still painful, ones. Quaker Peppy's are child's play by comparison, but I surely wouldn't think so if he were my first.  Poor Remi! It makes me happy to read about one more bird finally getting the care he deserves. |
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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on Sept 8, 2014 15:06:31 GMT -5
Funny how the little things get you so EXCITED!!!! Remi just took a piece of wheat thin from my hand and ATE IT! I feel like posting it all over the internet. Oh. Wait. I just did! LOL Once I can establish that what I'm eating is good, I'll have a better chance of getting him to quit eating seed! I've been trying since I got him to get him to eat yummies from my hand and today is the first day he did |
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Post by easttex on Sept 9, 2014 3:41:32 GMT -5
Small victories; they never get old! That was some fast progress. |
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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on Sept 9, 2014 7:03:33 GMT -5
Well, I'd like to take all the credit but the bird is a sucker for head scritches. The minute you approach his cage (I've been leaving the door open, it swings out so he hangs out on the door)he lowers his head for scritches. I've been having him step up first, then giving him scritches and now he comes right over to me to step up and get scritched. So, he already trusts hands which helps tremendously!
But thanks, yes, he is making progress, vocalizing a lot now, chirping, whistling, settling right in. He gets a new, bigger cage today, the one he is in now is a joke, so hopefully that won't set him back too much. After he gets settled in his new cage, I'll set him up a "yummy" dish and start introducing him to veggies and quinoa and birdie bread. His current cage is so small there really isnt even room in there for an extra food dish!
I can't wait for him to come out of quarrantine so he can interact with our "flock" (Mr P and I)
Funny, Mr P hears him vocalizing, he has seen me carry his cage from the quarrantine room (my bedroom) to my back porch, but he has totally ignored him so far.
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