Doc Kristin time..

[AmyMyBlueFront]

….time for the kids to see Dr K.We have an appointment on 1/15/20 at 2:30pm Amy needs his physical. Prolly get blood work done too. His nails are pretty bad! I can't have him perch on my fingers for too long now or I'll get punctured When we were on our adventure yesterday,I was wearing a pretty heavy Harley hoodie that he had no problem holding onto. When I asked him to step-up to my fingers he had a problem...his nails got stuck ( like a gert's does (gert=cat) on a rug) and he gave me one of those "what now?help me!" looks :52:
I'm on the fence on shortening his sleeves. He has had long sleeves now for almost two years,in an attempt to learn him how to fly..looks like that ain't gonna happen anytime soon! Oh he still does his flapflap lessons for exercise and likes doing them,but he'd just rather walk,or get his Uber ride. He has been out fully clothed,I'm taking a HUGE risk with that. Even when he gets spooked in the house and frantically waves his arms,he just gracefully goes THUD...sighhhh. So shortening them will kind of put ME at ease...a little. YES I DO plan on getting "them" a pak-o-fid in the next couple months.

BB is getting a wellness check and grooming. His little tootsies are pointy also. I just don't have the confidence to clip them..so afraid i'll hurt either one And he IS getting his sleeves shortened!! that little so-and-so is getting bold and carried away! He flies WHEREVER he pleases at anytime..lands on places he knows he's not supposed to be on and has the audacity to look at me and laugh! When he gets spooked ( me just SNEEZING sets him off!) he goes all cattiwumpus yelling his head off,sometimes crashing into things..I'm not going to tolerate that anymore!! He goes screaming as he flies full throttle down the hall to the living room! If he doesn't want to do something it's always flapflapflap. This will be a BIG surprise to him and hopefully will put him in his place and calm his butt down


Jim

 

[SailBoat]

Here's thumbs up on Amy's physical...

The choice is your regarding trimming. My only two cents is that is to at least keep them on the longer side to minimize the THUD effect.

 

[texsize]

Your Amy and my Bingo suffer the same aerodynamic traits.
I confess that I like it that way because Bingo hates my wife.
If he can't fly it makes him much safer for my wife.
It really is pathetic when he try's to fly. He creates a windstorm but he only goes in one direction... down.

I know what you mean about the Cockatiels. you never know what might set them off and it go go go and figure out where they are going after launch.
I read somewhere that Cockatiels are the fastest flying birds in Australia, don't know if it's true.

BTW I got some good video of Bella talking and Bingo dancing (with the twins watching from above) and fighting with his toys.
Will try to post it next weekend.

 

[wrench13]

Hey Jim, HNY and all,everyone here says Hi.

Always a big decision - trim or dont trim. I'm sure Dr K will do right by the Beebs, not too much off the top, right?

 

[Aspie_Aviphile]

Wouldn't immobility have the opposite effect to calming a bird down? By increasing restless energy, boredom and neuroticism due to the reduced BDNF and increased oxidative stress in the brain caused by absence of full lung capacity exercise, as well as increasing baseline anxiety levels and panic reactions by rendering them knowingly helpless and unable to escape either real dangers or sudden sounds and movements and unfamiliar things that they are wired to have a greater startle response to than humans do, as well as making them crash into things far more harshly because previously flighted birds never stop launching themselves into the air instinctively when spooked?

The only way I can imagine a bird appearing to calm down in movement is the same reason I might calm down if my legs were tied as a toddler so I couldn't move around quickly or exercise to full lung capacity anymore: I might be scared stiff of toppling over or losing balance, or eventually become despondent through clinical depression or unenergetic through unfitness.

I doubt the laughter means he shares your sense of an agreed upon chain of command that he is subverting; parrots are egalitarian and don't have the hardwired desire to establish a leader like humans and dogs do. When they laugh they're probably just mimicking the sound they've heard made in a related context, because they don't have a diaphragm so laughter as a physiological response to emotions is impossible for them.

If you take it personally you might start to feel indignant, retaliatory or disciplinary impulses towards your bird who doesn't think like a human or dog and doesn't have any sense of cheekily undermining your authority and therefore no understanding of being punished for disobedience. Training parrots is more like training cats: they won't ever see you as a benevolent authority figure who is reassuring to have in charge of them, so their reasons for obeying or disobeying your commands will never include how they perceive your leadership worthiness or your relationship.

 

[LaManuka]

I wouldn’t shorten the Beebmeister’s sleeves either, just my 2.9 Aussie cents worth (converts to 2 cents US as per today’s rates)

 

[Scott]

Hope the visit goes well and all receive clean health screening!!

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Here's thumbs up on Amy's physical...

The choice is your regarding trimming. My only two cents is that is to at least keep them on the longer side to minimize the THUD effect.

Oh of course 'Boats!


Jim

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Hey Jim, HNY and all,everyone here says Hi.

Always a big decision - trim or dont trim. I'm sure Dr K will do right by the Beebs, not too much off the top, right?

Just above the ears Al


Jim

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

Wouldn't immobility have the opposite effect to calming a bird down? By increasing restless energy, boredom and neuroticism due to the reduced BDNF and increased oxidative stress in the brain caused by absence of full lung capacity exercise, as well as increasing baseline anxiety levels and panic reactions by rendering them knowingly helpless and unable to escape either real dangers or sudden sounds and movements and unfamiliar things that they are wired to have a greater startle response to than humans do, as well as making them crash into things far more harshly because previously flighted birds never stop launching themselves into the air instinctively when spooked?

The only way I can imagine a bird appearing to calm down in movement is the same reason I might calm down if my legs were tied as a toddler so I couldn't move around quickly or exercise to full lung capacity anymore: I might be scared stiff of toppling over or losing balance, or eventually become despondent through clinical depression or unenergetic through unfitness.

I doubt the laughter means he shares your sense of an agreed upon chain of command that he is subverting; parrots are egalitarian and don't have the hardwired desire to establish a leader like humans and dogs do. When they laugh they're probably just mimicking the sound they've heard made in a related context, because they don't have a diaphragm so laughter as a physiological response to emotions is impossible for them.

If you take it personally you might start to feel indignant, retaliatory or disciplinary impulses towards your bird who doesn't think like a human or dog and doesn't have any sense of cheekily undermining your authority and therefore no understanding of being punished for disobedience. Training parrots is more like training cats: they won't ever see you as a benevolent authority figure who is reassuring to have in charge of them, so their reasons for obeying or disobeying your commands will never include how they perceive your leadership worthiness or your relationship.

When I said "calm" I didn't mean calm,as in "ahhhh...relax" I meant calm,as in not flying about every time he freaks out and flying into stuff. The other night when I SNEEZED..he took of from his T-perch that was on my bed,zoomed around the room a few times while screaming his fool head off..then out my bedroom he goes,200 miles an hour down the hall... with more screaming. then he slams on the brakes,turns sideways like he is sliding into home plate..more of him frantically waving his arms,almost hovering as if smoke was coming from under his sleeves smoking his tyres makes a hard left turn and lands on Amy's play pen! Then there is poor Amy,also on his playpen,who freaks out,wondering WTH is that,as he yells out HUH??HELLO!!HOW ARE YOU??Then the Gert jumps from my brothers lap,legs going so fast she's standing still...and David ends up spilling his beer all over the coffee table:20: aand all of this takes about fifteen seconds!!!


Jim

 

[SailBoat]

" aand all of this takes about fifteen seconds!!!"

And, here I believed that BB's was faster than that!?!?

Love Amy's response!!!

Very saddened by the loss of beer! Some safe guards need to be set in place - loss of beer is not acceptable!

 

[AmyMyBlueFront]

" aand all of this takes about fifteen seconds!!!"

And, here I believed that BB's was faster than that!?!?

Love Amy's response!!!
Very saddened by the loss of beer! Some safe guards need to be set in place - loss of beer is not acceptable!

That was a pretty good visual now,wasn't it 'Boats??!


Jim

 

[SailBoat]

" aand all of this takes about fifteen seconds!!!"

And, here I believed that BB's was faster than that!?!?

Love Amy's response!!!
Very saddened by the loss of beer! Some safe guards need to be set in place - loss of beer is not acceptable!

That was a pretty good visual now, wasn't it 'Boats??!

Jim

A truly great visual. Jim!!!
The loss of beer, had to be painful, just have to have been...