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Post by easttex on May 15, 2015 12:32:57 GMT -5
I don't think Peppy ever had his cage covered at night before me. Even after all this time, nearly eleven months, when I pull it over the top, he ducks. He scrunches down as lowwwww as he can get on the perch, looking up. It's really cute, but I don't like scaring him. I found he deals with it better if I start out from the back of the cage. He's still a tad suspicious, though.  |
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Post by msdani1981 on May 15, 2015 13:13:51 GMT -5
Tax HATES getting covered. He crouches and hisses. If he's really angry he does his "battle cry". LOL
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Post by julianna on May 15, 2015 13:41:04 GMT -5
I thought I would try and cover Oscar's cage one day. This is the one with his huge house inside and I thought because everyone else gives their birds total darkness I would try. Well... it did not go very good. He went into his house as he usually does and then I covered the cage. Remember I do not close his door because he has weaved the plastic ties and it holds the door open.
I went to bed as usual and in the morning, I thought I would leave him covered a little longer because it was too early to get up. After a little while I heard peeps.... so I took the cover off to find Oscar clinging to the outside of his cage. I do not know if he spent the entire night there, but I think so because I saw no movement in the morning.
I do not cover his cage anymore. I felt very sorry for him and besides... he has so many tie wraps in his house that I think it is dark enough for him.
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Post by cnyguy on May 15, 2015 20:09:20 GMT -5
Ralph likes to have the back and sides of his cage completely covered at night, but only the top third of the front. He made that clear to me shortly after he first arrived here, by Quaker-cursing any heavier covering of the cage front. |
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Post by Jan and Shah on May 15, 2015 22:06:02 GMT -5
Like Ralph, Shah likes his cage covered on the back, top and sides. At the front I only pull the cover partially across as he likes this method best and knows it is time to settle down when I cover his cage.
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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on May 16, 2015 9:02:34 GMT -5
Mr P doesn't care. As long as he has food in his cage (particularly his dinner time quinoa), he's happy, covered or uncovered.
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Post by easttex on May 16, 2015 9:22:01 GMT -5
Just once, I'd like to know what it is like to have a real food driven bird, Sharyn. Peppy does enjoy his meals. When I bring his cooked food in the evening, he acts like I've starved him all day. But veggies, fuhgeddaboutit. And bribery doesn't work on him, or on Allie.
I leave the front of Peppy's cage only partially covered, also. He is so well behaved about bedtime and in the morning that I wouldn't cover him at all if I were not concerned about a/c drafts.
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Post by siobhan on May 16, 2015 12:15:52 GMT -5
Rocky Too demands his cover at dusk, but doesn't go to sleep until we go to bed. Ringo and Trixie refuse to be covered at all. The Thundering Horde gets covered in the winter months for extra warmth but not in the summer. We've worked this out gradually based on individual bird preferences.
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Post by Sharyn and Mr P on May 17, 2015 9:51:09 GMT -5
Mr P doesnt eat veggies either, but he LOVES bird bread, which has tons of chop in it. He does eat just about everything else and bribery works great. Daisy, on the other hand, is not food driven, and it has been challenging to get her back into her cage after she comes out. She will not really take food out of our hands either, so target training has been put on hold until she does.
She does take peanuts, but they are not really good for her and she will only take them in in the shell, which makes target training with them impossible as the treat has to be something they will eat fast.
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Post by aaron on May 17, 2015 10:10:40 GMT -5
Cupcake gets covered fully on the sides with half of the back open (below her perch level) and half on the front. She's probably fairly food driven by most definitions... and whenever we are leaving the house I give her a treat when she gets in her cage and it has made it very easy to get her to cooperate when it is time for us to go somewhere... but beyond that I don't use food as incentive all that much.
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