@cengland0 That is cute. We rarely catch Walter sleeping even at night. We hear birds need a lot of rest which we doubt Walter gets. But it doesn’t seem to effect him. And yes-everytime he is sleeping and we get near him with the phone to take a picture, he wakes up. You can tell ours is taken from far away.
@cengland0@Felton10
Have enough candy lol. I thought you were supposed to cover birds up at night so they slept? Or is that only certain kind of birds? Does yours just have free range of your house?
@cengland0@Star2236 No-he goes in his cage and is locked in at night and is covered but when he hears the first flush of a toilet in the AM, he starts making noise and I take him out and put him on his great room perch where he stays for most of the day until dinner time when he goes back in the cage (whose door is still open) for him to eat dinner.
You would think that being 25 years old would have made Walter a neater eater. Nope. Half of what is in his food dish ends up on the floor. That is why we have a chair mat under his play gym in the great room.
@Felton10@Kidsandliz@tinamarie1974 Yeah, o you’d think, but the dogs also want to eat the literal bird poop, and IDK about Walter, but our ex-cockatoo Brandy would chase the dogs if they got close enough to eat whatever food she dropped. Not to mention my M-I-L, which was always a hoot.
@Kidsandliz@tinamarie1974@unksol Because I take of all his other needs re pressure washing his cage, buying and replacing his toys, cooking all his food and buying it. Have to either buy precooked chicken quarters at Costco for him or cook drumsticks on the grill with seasoning and BB sauce plus cooking his eggs for breakfast.
Also Walter has not had a water dish in his cage or on his perch for the past 6 months. Gets all his liquid from melons (honey dew and cantaloupe) so I have to make sure they are juicy enough for him to get his required liquid. (Vet says this is ok). One is always in the frig with one ripening on the counter.
that’s the ultimate “shoot the bird” pic.
/giphy sleeping birdie
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@narfcake![:smiling_face_with_3_hearts:](https://dj5zo597wtsux.cloudfront.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f970.png)
@narfcake I think your bird is ill.
@blaineg
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/giphy forgot how to bird
My bird sleeps all the time but it’s hard to catch him on the camera because once I get the phone out, he usually wakes up and attacks the phone.
Here he is sleeping while leaning on my arm preventing me from typing without me waking him up.
@cengland0 That is cute. We rarely catch Walter sleeping even at night. We hear birds need a lot of rest which we doubt Walter gets. But it doesn’t seem to effect him. And yes-everytime he is sleeping and we get near him with the phone to take a picture, he wakes up. You can tell ours is taken from far away.
@Felton10 mine wants to sleep in my hand more than anywhere else. It’s cute but annoying because I don’t want to move and wake him up.
@Felton10 here he is asleep on my feet.
@cengland0 @Felton10
Have enough candy lol. I thought you were supposed to cover birds up at night so they slept? Or is that only certain kind of birds? Does yours just have free range of your house?
@cengland0 @Star2236 No-he goes in his cage and is locked in at night and is covered but when he hears the first flush of a toilet in the AM, he starts making noise and I take him out and put him on his great room perch where he stays for most of the day until dinner time when he goes back in the cage (whose door is still open) for him to eat dinner.
@cengland0 @Felton10
Never had a bird, just wondering.
@cengland0 @Felton10![:heart_eyes:](https://dj5zo597wtsux.cloudfront.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f60d.png)
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Awww…That’s adorable!
You would think that being 25 years old would have made Walter a neater eater. Nope. Half of what is in his food dish ends up on the floor. That is why we have a chair mat under his play gym in the great room.
@Felton10 does he ever go down there and eat the droppings?
@tinamarie1974 No-totally ignores any food on the floor.
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974 a king? Eat the droppings from his feast? He has pesants to dispose of that
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974
Get a dog. Problem solved. You are welcome.
@tinamarie1974 @unksol Don’t let my wife hear you day that. She had to sweep up his mess at least three times a day.
@Felton10 @Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 Yeah, o you’d think, but the dogs also want to eat the literal bird poop, and IDK about Walter, but our ex-cockatoo Brandy would chase the dogs if they got close enough to eat whatever food she dropped. Not to mention my M-I-L, which was always a hoot.
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974 the dog or the pesant?
@Felton10 @tinamarie1974 @unksol And you are not helping sweep up the mess for YOUR bird because?![:wink:](https://dj5zo597wtsux.cloudfront.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f609.png)
@Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 @unksol Because I take of all his other needs re pressure washing his cage, buying and replacing his toys, cooking all his food and buying it. Have to either buy precooked chicken quarters at Costco for him or cook drumsticks on the grill with seasoning and BB sauce plus cooking his eggs for breakfast.
Also Walter has not had a water dish in his cage or on his perch for the past 6 months. Gets all his liquid from melons (honey dew and cantaloupe) so I have to make sure they are juicy enough for him to get his required liquid. (Vet says this is ok). One is always in the frig with one ripening on the counter.
Think that is a reasonable division of duties.
@Felton10 @Kidsandliz @tinamarie1974 @unksol Oh, man - your bird eats way better than I do!
@Felton10 This is what i think of if i ever hear the phrase, “eats like a bird”.