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Post by bruce on Oct 29, 2016 16:27:50 GMT -5
Today Chuckie started doing something different. He was begging/demanding a treat. I handed him a piece of multigrain cracker, he shoved it out of his condo. Then I handed him a bit of a breakfast bar, again he tossed it out. I tried a peanut, again, out. He started 'dancing' around and I think he was giggling. Guess even an old bird can develop a new trick. Has anyone else had their QP suddenly decide they didn't like treats they used to devour?
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Post by zim on Oct 29, 2016 19:50:07 GMT -5
That's funny! Perhaps he was trying to pester you!
I've never seen Yoshi toss a treat before. He has denied treats on one occasion, when he was super ticked at me for clipping his wings.
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Post by biteybird on Oct 29, 2016 20:47:30 GMT -5
Actually, Bonnie does this too. She makes a squeaky sound when we're eating (a sound she doesn't make at any other time) to tell us she wants some. So, we dutifully cut little pieces off whatever we are eating and give them to her. She takes a token bite, then simply drops/flings it onto the floor of the cage. Does she go down there and pick it up? Oh, no! She wants a new piece and is NOT HAPPY if we ignore her.  |
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Post by julianna on Nov 3, 2016 13:19:01 GMT -5
Oscar has also stopped eating some of the foods he used to love. No more red pepper... it gets tossed. No more marshmellow... tossed again. Bananas... only a little and the rest gets beaten up. I guess he just goes through stages where sometime the food is yummy and some times it is not.
It is just difficult to find replacements especially when he tosses healthy food.
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Post by beccilouise on Nov 4, 2016 16:49:15 GMT -5
Maya seems to have cravings for particular things, like pasta or peas, and won't have anything except that one thing she wants. She's a proper little flying stomach though, so she likes most things. They certainly know their own minds!
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Post by bruce on Nov 5, 2016 14:33:15 GMT -5
Thanks everyone for the replies. Chuckie is shaking his food dish and making QP purrs in background as I write this. He does say yum yum sometimes when he wants something I am eating. And uses his voice to loudly complain if he isn't getting a treat on demand. I despair of ever reducing his habit of screeching during dinner. At times it is so obnoxious that he gets to visit his night cage in the small bedroom so my ears get a rest.
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Post by biteybird on Nov 5, 2016 17:27:27 GMT -5
Haha, I only just put Bonnie in the end room for the same reason! Except that we weren't eating; she just squawks in the morning for AGES at 2-second intervals and my hubby's patience was ebbing fast, so out she went for a while! Sometimes one just wants a quiet, relaxing weekend...not always to be.  |
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Post by zim on Nov 5, 2016 18:42:43 GMT -5
I feel lucky, Yoshi doesn't scream unless I do something terribly bad. Like leave the room, or take a shower without him.
As long as I'm in line of sight, he rarely screams.
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Post by beccilouise on Nov 6, 2016 5:05:04 GMT -5
If it makes anyone feel better, Maya is going through a bossy biting phase. Sometimes, I'm sure she gives my ear a nip just to see what I'll do! She doesn't break the skin, and scream so much, but my goodness, she knows her own mind and definitely assumes she is top bird! I am working on this...
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Post by siobhan on Nov 7, 2016 11:14:16 GMT -5
Clyde not only refuses things he once loved, he resents the other birds enjoying those things. Popcorn, for example. I take popcorn to them and everybody gathers round with great enthusiasm. Clyde will take a piece and drop or throw it, and then get mad when the others get pieces and eat theirs. I give him another piece, and no! He squawks, he chomps, he has a fit. Okay, I'll give a piece to Jade, or Freddie, or Johnny and CHOMP! SQUAWK!
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Post by biteybird on Nov 8, 2016 1:27:11 GMT -5
There's nothing like a quaker having a temper tantrum... Siobhan, I just read your post to my husband and he asked what are the other birds you have - I read out the list from your 'signature' and he said "Oh, so she has no life, then, apart from the animals". What a charming person he can be (sorry).  |
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Post by aaron on Nov 12, 2016 19:33:11 GMT -5
Cupcake only refuses treats when she is angry. When we are leaving the house to go somewhere, we always give her a treat as she goes willingly into her cage... But if she feels that the situation is unfair on unacceptable in some way, like, for example, we had been out for a number of hours, and then come home, only to cage her again in 15 minutes to leave again... THEN she will refuse treats, just to make it clear that our behavior is unacceptable  |
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Post by siobhan on Nov 17, 2016 12:48:48 GMT -5
Tell him I have a demanding full time job as a journalist, which requires crazy hours and includes my share of weekends and holidays; I play drums in a band that gigs all over town; and I play flute in the wind ensemble at church and various instruments (usually bass, sometimes guitar, sometimes drums) in the praise band at church. LOL In addition to being enslaved by a flock of birds and two dogs.
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Post by aaron on Nov 20, 2016 23:17:13 GMT -5
I don't know how you do it, siobhan  |
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Post by biteybird on Nov 21, 2016 0:54:26 GMT -5
Me either. I have enough trouble just looking after me & my toddler husband (without Bonnie, that is). |
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