I recently adopted a 2 yr old CAG. He is great. I knew from the first moment I met him that it was meant to be. There were several signs that led up to that first meeting that also seemed to say it was meant to be.
We picked him up nearly 4 hours away from our home. He withstood the car ride excellently. When we got home he seemed to be very excited and happy. Everything was great for about a week.
That's when I think he realized it was permanent. Then getting him to go to bed started being issue. We learned he was great at putting himself to bed if we put an almond in the cage. Since then, picking him up has only been met with him "running away."
He was on an all seed diet, but took to his pellets excellently, didn't even need to mix the two together. I saw this as excellent.
During the first week he ate mango, Kale, Broccoli, apples, peaches, and anything else we offered......then it hit week two and it was a stand off
now four weeks later he continues to eat his pellets but will not eat his fresh greens or even fresh fruits.
We have foraging toys that he will not touch even with peanuts, almonds, or the seeds he grew up on. I have the easy, medium, and hard versions of toys, and let me tell you he won't touch any of them. I even took a piece of newspaper and folded the nuts in in front of him, and he just stared at me like I was stupid! a week later the newspaper sits at the bottom of the cage with all the nuts inside.
We have bells, plastic toys, metal toys, feathery toys, rope toys, paper, cardboard toys, etc...etc......He doesn't do anything. He talks a lot, but doesn't really do much else. He uses two perches, the smooth wooden one that comes with the cage and the cement one when he sleeps.
I think everything is okay and he may play and eat more later on, but I am open to suggestions!
We picked him up nearly 4 hours away from our home. He withstood the car ride excellently. When we got home he seemed to be very excited and happy. Everything was great for about a week.
That's when I think he realized it was permanent. Then getting him to go to bed started being issue. We learned he was great at putting himself to bed if we put an almond in the cage. Since then, picking him up has only been met with him "running away."
He was on an all seed diet, but took to his pellets excellently, didn't even need to mix the two together. I saw this as excellent.
During the first week he ate mango, Kale, Broccoli, apples, peaches, and anything else we offered......then it hit week two and it was a stand off
now four weeks later he continues to eat his pellets but will not eat his fresh greens or even fresh fruits.
We have foraging toys that he will not touch even with peanuts, almonds, or the seeds he grew up on. I have the easy, medium, and hard versions of toys, and let me tell you he won't touch any of them. I even took a piece of newspaper and folded the nuts in in front of him, and he just stared at me like I was stupid! a week later the newspaper sits at the bottom of the cage with all the nuts inside.
We have bells, plastic toys, metal toys, feathery toys, rope toys, paper, cardboard toys, etc...etc......He doesn't do anything. He talks a lot, but doesn't really do much else. He uses two perches, the smooth wooden one that comes with the cage and the cement one when he sleeps.
I think everything is okay and he may play and eat more later on, but I am open to suggestions!
