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Post by siobhan on May 4, 2015 15:07:54 GMT -5
Hubby had to be gone all day, driving his dad all over creation for various medical tests and appointments, and of course, I'm at work, so Rocky is spending his first day alone with the dogs (and the other birds, but they're not where he can see them). We bought clips to secure all the doors on his cage so he'd have to stay inside it, since no one is there to referee in case he and Jack NO should disagree. I went home at lunch very briefly to check on them and while Rocky isn't thrilled to be locked up, he's really taking it pretty well. Jack spends most of his time lying on the bed looking out the window pretending to be a guard dog -- really, he sleeps more than he guards, LOL -- and our old girl Gigi sleeps most of the time, so Rocky would be bored stiff except I left music on for him. He likes music. I didn't let him out while I was home because I didn't want to argue with him about going back in, but I talked to him and petted his feet and beak through the bars. Hubby should be home in about an hour and he'll let him out. He's taking it so well that I think he must have been used to being locked in his cage when people were gone. The other birds' rooms are bird-safe and I leave them out when I'm not home and they're safe enough, but Rocky's in the main part of the house and it's not bird-proofed. He almost never leaves his cage willingly, but that doesn't mean he wouldn't go wandering around if no one was there.
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Post by Jan and Shah on May 4, 2015 16:38:37 GMT -5
Sounds like he is adjusting well. I used to think Shah was bored but I have been home (and he hasnt realised it) and he spends the day yelling abuse at Pippin, practising his words and sleeping. I also leave a radio on for him. Rocky will be fine - it's just that we worry about them.
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Post by siobhan on May 4, 2015 20:17:26 GMT -5
He really was okay. He wanted a good long snuggle when I got home, and he got brave and sat on the couch with me, out of reach of his cage, for the first time without trembling. He hasn't even yelled much and he usually yells at bedtime. He's in his cage with three sides covered and the front of the cover folded back so he can see out, but he's playing quietly and being a model parrot again. It's not natural, I tell you. LOL Maybe I've been around Quakers too long ...
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Post by Jan and Shah on May 5, 2015 0:05:19 GMT -5
He sounds such a delight - and such a change from the quakers. Just the fact that he snuggles is wonderful.
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Post by siobhan on May 5, 2015 7:44:53 GMT -5
No kidding. Clyde was in a mood last night and ran across my lap and chomped my finger bloody out of the blue. I know that often birds chomp because the human has done something, but I really hadn't. I was playing Simon Says with him and my hand was just in my lap.
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Post by biteybird on May 5, 2015 8:13:59 GMT -5
They can be such little rotters. For a couple of days Bonnie's been feral and bit hubby's finger - he transferred her to his other hand. Guess what happened...she bit his other hand, twice, so she got 'stuffed' into her cage (it was bedtime anyway). But tonight she decided to be all sweetness and light and sat on my shoulder with her head down having a scratch for over 5 minutes, making her cutest purring noise. I fully expected her to morph suddenly into a biting machine, but she didn't. Yay.  |
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Post by siobhan on May 5, 2015 10:24:46 GMT -5
I knew Clyde was in a mood. He'd already attacked me once, but he had settled down from that and was sitting on my shoulder and we were having a nice game of Simon Says, though he refused to step onto my hand, which is also a bad sign. I haven't lived with him all this time without knowing all the bad signs. LOL So he went to bed a little early and he was okay this morning. It made the contrast between him and Rocky even more noticeable, though, because after being bitten by a little Quaker beak and putting up with a moody mini dictator, I went into the living room to give Rocky a good-night snuggle and he laid his head on my chest and muttered endearments in Cockatoo, and after he went to bed, he said "I wuv ooooh!"
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Post by Jan and Shah on May 5, 2015 16:44:09 GMT -5
Wow, Rocky saying "I wuv oooh" made my heart melt. What a special little guy.
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Post by easttex on May 5, 2015 17:54:43 GMT -5
What a love! Do you know how old Rocky is? And aren't you glad your friend decided she couldn't keep him?
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Post by siobhan on May 5, 2015 20:41:56 GMT -5
I wanted him to begin with and just couldn't come up with the cash. And she's willing to have me make payments to her, which the original folks wouldn't have been. I don't know his age. First they said 10 to 12 and then they said 12 to 15 and I think they just had no idea. We're calling him 15 but I don't think there's any way to know with a 'too any more than there is with any other parrot. He came over to me on his own earlier by stepping off his cage onto the foot rest of the recliner, and he walked up to me and sat on my leg and put his head down in my lap. Such a contrast with a Quaker.
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