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Post by julianna on Mar 14, 2015 12:24:29 GMT -5
I had to go out of town the other day and decided to leave Oscar at home and not with a sitter. I knew I would be home within a 12 hour span and when I returned I was really surprised that Oscar hardly moved and hardly ate anything. I had left him with lots of his favorites and he was outside his cage so he could go back and forth from the kitchen to the living room. I always check around to see where the poop is and was quite surprised that it was all in the kitchen sooooo that means he sat there almost all day waiting for me to come back.
I felt sorry for him a little but he wasn't upset at all.... no bites... or sqwaks... just kisses and of course he was up very early the next day and sat on my hand almost the entire day.
I do worry that he will be safe however, no matter where he is... I worry that he will be safe. |
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Post by easttex on Mar 14, 2015 15:40:09 GMT -5
They're such social beings, aren't they? That is kind of sad to think of him just sitting there. Hopefully he got a good snooze in and wasn't just moping.  |
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Post by siobhan on Mar 14, 2015 16:01:54 GMT -5
Maybe he was just trying to be a good boy and stay out of mischief until you got home!
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Post by biteybird on Mar 14, 2015 19:49:45 GMT -5
I'm not brave enough to leave Bonnie out of her cage when we are out, as I worry that something I've overlooked will hurt her (although I realise I'm being a little paranoid sometimes). Today she was holding a pin she'd pulled out from the pinboard near our front door and I nearly had heart failure.  Oscar may do better next time - these quakers are very adaptable creatures and once he knows you will always return he'll relax a lot more. |
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Post by siobhan on Mar 14, 2015 20:11:11 GMT -5
It's true that they're like toddlers and can find trouble where you'd never dream they'd find it. One day I came home from work and couldn't find Ringo anywhere. Her room's door had been closed all day. The closet door was closed. The windows were closed. Yet she was simply not there. I called and called and looked under things and behind things and finally she gave a little chirp. I have some guitars stacked in a corner with a blanket over them to keep her from pooping on the cases and somehow she had pulled the blanket back and fallen in and the blanket had fallen back over and she couldn't get out. I rescued her and no harm done, but I can tell you I tucked that blanket around those cases tightly after that so there's no way for her to repeat that performance. The parrots' room has been bird-proofed as thoroughly as I can manage to do it, yet one day Maggie managed to slide her basket sideways and it fell off the top of her cage against the wall and trapped her between basket and wall. I rescued her, too, and now her basket is inside her cage where, I hope, she won't figure out a way to get stuck.
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Post by julianna on Mar 15, 2015 14:08:11 GMT -5
Wow... some scary things can happen for sure. I would be terrified with the pin biteybird. I guess I am lucky in some ways.
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Post by biteybird on Mar 16, 2015 2:41:35 GMT -5
I once had a Bourke's parrot kept inside (loose in his own room regularly) and he walked into the gap between the wall and the filing cabinet and couldn't turn around/get out. Luckily I 'smelled a rat' and called to him and he squawked back. Otherwise I would never have known he was there. Quakers may be different - does anyone know if they can walk backwards? I'm not sure if they can...?
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Post by easttex on Mar 16, 2015 7:22:23 GMT -5
I don't know for sure, but when I return Peppy to his perch, he much prefers to turn around and step forward. I'm sure that is a matter of training, and it tells me that backwards is probably not a natural movement. And it makes sense. They have good vision forward and to the sides, less so behind. Especially in an unfamiliar spot, I would think it would make one cautious about moving where they can't see the predators just waiting to eat them. |
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Post by julianna on Mar 16, 2015 11:59:09 GMT -5
Yes they can walk backwards as I have seen it but I agree with easttex... it is not a natural movement.
I once lost Oscar in my garden outside. He was on the ground beside me and when I looked again he was gone. I called and called but he would not reply. I really got scared because he blended so well with the garden and lawn. It took about 10 minutes and finally I heard a little peep. He had gone to the end of the garden and crawled up the fencing where he favorite peas were growing. geezzzz almost had a heart attack.
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Post by siobhan on Mar 16, 2015 13:08:33 GMT -5
I've seen Clyde dance backward when he encounters something he doesn't like. My canary can take off backwards. She can be sitting on a perch and instead of turning around to flit to another, she jumps off backward and turns in midair. It's weird. LOL
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Post by aaron on Mar 17, 2015 20:36:09 GMT -5
When we first got Cupcake, in our inexperience we left her out while we were not home... for probably the first three months. From what I could tell, she basically sat in one place the entire time we were gone and never got into any trouble. We stopped leaving her out because we saw how much trouble she was capable of getting into and just felt like leaving her out in our apartment was tempting fate... We are still amazed that she never got into trouble.
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Post by sandee on Mar 19, 2015 23:18:50 GMT -5
They're such social beings, aren't they? That is kind of sad to think of him just sitting there. Hopefully he got a good snooze in and wasn't just moping.
Some birds are social when they feel like it:
I was gone for a week last fall. (Gordon had birdie-sitters come over and play with him.) I got home after dark, said hello to him. He said "Go to bed". I opened his cage door, and got him a seed, got myself some water, and asked him if he wanted to come out of his cage and hang out? He replied "go to bed NOW!"
~Sandee~
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Post by easttex on Mar 20, 2015 3:31:11 GMT -5
Some birds are social when they feel like it:
That's true, too, Sandee. They want what they want, when they want it. Quakers never seem to be short of opinions, or ways to express them, but Gordon is impressive! |
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Oscar may do better next time - these quakers are very adaptable creatures and once he knows you will always return he'll relax a lot more.
