Mechanical8dragon
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My BF, me, and our roommate are all going on a 4 day-ish trip to Las Vegas, NV. Our house will be empty. Ya see where this is goin' already, I know it LOL.
We're traveling by United Airlines, and from my understanding, they DO allow small animals to travel in the coach with you, but they charge I think it was 125$ each way, and if there are lay overs, another 125$ for every layover I think. We don't have any layovers. But this was the first option I discovered, but the tickets are already purchased. Will I be able to add her on if i go this route? Which I might?
The other option is to just leave her home. I'm training her to use a water bottle, and its a BIG water bottle. The food bowls in her cage are HUGE and not counting the water bowl, i have 3 of them I can fill to the brim with like 2+cups of pellets. I have no concerns that she'd end up running out of food and water in 4 days. However, what does concern me, is being left alone for 4 full days and nights.
My dad and I used to visit my grandma on the weekends so we'd leave her at home for the time we're gone (We'd either leave right after dad came home from work on friday (the early saturday morning), stay saturday, and then come back sunday evening). So I know 2 days alone are ok for her.
Thoughts? Will she be ok? Or should I just take her with me even though she'd be in the hotel room alone for 90% of the day. My thinking is I might as well just leave her at home, as we'll spend VERY LITTLE TIME in the hotel. Literally just coming back to go to sleep, thats it. So she'd get very little attention while we're there.
There's no one here either that can 'bird-sit' her. I don't have friends here, I don't trust anyone by BF knows to come take care of her, and even if they did, it would be 5 min of interaction that would result in them most likely getting bitten. Jardy does NOT like strangers. None of the people we know are familiar with birds.
And the person I 'rehomed' jardy to awhile back is far to busy and quite a distance away from us, and again, Jardy cared little for her as well, as I've seen first hand (she had multiple deep bite marks and healing bite marks on her hands). So again, even if she did take jardy, again she wouldn't get much human interaction.
Personally, even though it might be quite the boring 4 days for Jardy, I feel it would be better to just keep her here at home rather than pulling her thru the stress of a plane flight, a busy airport, another plane ride, a strange room, etc. etc. but I still wanted to ask the opinions of those here who've owned birds FAAARRR longer than me. My adventure with Jardy has only just begun, while you guys have had it going for quite some time (safe to say, most of you 10+ yrs? hehe).
Do you feel it would be better for her to just leave her here? Take her with me? (bird sitter is a no go, I don't trust anyone to take care of my animals, I don't know of anyone who would even be willing to, and the only person I do know has too much going on in her life)
PS: To some of you who DO know about the past unfortunate event with Jardy, you may ask: "Why didn't you just wait till after your trip to take her back?" I've already asked myself that question. Jardy's situation at her 'new home' wasn't ideal, again she hates strangers as she wasn't socialized well when she was younger and everyone at the store was scared to death of her except for like 3 guys lol, Jardy hated every single woman in that store. idk why... they said she didn't like women, but I walked up to her and picked her up with no issues... I'm rambling. Back to it: Her 'new home' wasn't ideal, she didn't like the people she was with, and although other birds were a plus (I was told she got along with a smaller cockatoo species) being so human-dependant, I didn't feel she was as happy as I was hoping this situation would be for her.
My thinking was this: She's already been with that lady since.... November of last year I believe... so if I waited it would be even more MONTHS of unhappy Jardy vs. 4 days of alone time (of which she's partly already experienced in the past and did fine in). Believe me, I've thought about this particular situation multiple times before I settled on just bringing her home.
We're traveling by United Airlines, and from my understanding, they DO allow small animals to travel in the coach with you, but they charge I think it was 125$ each way, and if there are lay overs, another 125$ for every layover I think. We don't have any layovers. But this was the first option I discovered, but the tickets are already purchased. Will I be able to add her on if i go this route? Which I might?
The other option is to just leave her home. I'm training her to use a water bottle, and its a BIG water bottle. The food bowls in her cage are HUGE and not counting the water bowl, i have 3 of them I can fill to the brim with like 2+cups of pellets. I have no concerns that she'd end up running out of food and water in 4 days. However, what does concern me, is being left alone for 4 full days and nights.
My dad and I used to visit my grandma on the weekends so we'd leave her at home for the time we're gone (We'd either leave right after dad came home from work on friday (the early saturday morning), stay saturday, and then come back sunday evening). So I know 2 days alone are ok for her.
Thoughts? Will she be ok? Or should I just take her with me even though she'd be in the hotel room alone for 90% of the day. My thinking is I might as well just leave her at home, as we'll spend VERY LITTLE TIME in the hotel. Literally just coming back to go to sleep, thats it. So she'd get very little attention while we're there.
There's no one here either that can 'bird-sit' her. I don't have friends here, I don't trust anyone by BF knows to come take care of her, and even if they did, it would be 5 min of interaction that would result in them most likely getting bitten. Jardy does NOT like strangers. None of the people we know are familiar with birds.
And the person I 'rehomed' jardy to awhile back is far to busy and quite a distance away from us, and again, Jardy cared little for her as well, as I've seen first hand (she had multiple deep bite marks and healing bite marks on her hands). So again, even if she did take jardy, again she wouldn't get much human interaction.
Personally, even though it might be quite the boring 4 days for Jardy, I feel it would be better to just keep her here at home rather than pulling her thru the stress of a plane flight, a busy airport, another plane ride, a strange room, etc. etc. but I still wanted to ask the opinions of those here who've owned birds FAAARRR longer than me. My adventure with Jardy has only just begun, while you guys have had it going for quite some time (safe to say, most of you 10+ yrs? hehe).
Do you feel it would be better for her to just leave her here? Take her with me? (bird sitter is a no go, I don't trust anyone to take care of my animals, I don't know of anyone who would even be willing to, and the only person I do know has too much going on in her life)
PS: To some of you who DO know about the past unfortunate event with Jardy, you may ask: "Why didn't you just wait till after your trip to take her back?" I've already asked myself that question. Jardy's situation at her 'new home' wasn't ideal, again she hates strangers as she wasn't socialized well when she was younger and everyone at the store was scared to death of her except for like 3 guys lol, Jardy hated every single woman in that store. idk why... they said she didn't like women, but I walked up to her and picked her up with no issues... I'm rambling. Back to it: Her 'new home' wasn't ideal, she didn't like the people she was with, and although other birds were a plus (I was told she got along with a smaller cockatoo species) being so human-dependant, I didn't feel she was as happy as I was hoping this situation would be for her.
My thinking was this: She's already been with that lady since.... November of last year I believe... so if I waited it would be even more MONTHS of unhappy Jardy vs. 4 days of alone time (of which she's partly already experienced in the past and did fine in). Believe me, I've thought about this particular situation multiple times before I settled on just bringing her home.
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