My new baby's first night

classic57

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Aug 30, 2009
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Plymouth, MA
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Yoshi the Pearly Conure
Yoshi likes to hang on his cage bars as close to me as possible when I'm in the room. He slept that way and didn't want his Happy Hut at all. This morning as soon as he woke up, he went right to work on the door latch and had it open in seconds! I'm going to have to go buy a lock for his door. He's eating and drinking normally, so my guess is this little guy isn't very stressed by his move.
 
I had to get a lock for Auggie's cage as well, and I had to tie down all the little food-bowl-hatches or he would get out through there. I learned this the hard way when I came home from work he was sitting in the middle of the living room chewing on a key from my computer keyboard. I looked at the keyboard and every single key had been pulled off, several were on the floor there, and many others were hidden (cached) in various hiding places throughout the apartment. I never found all of them, and even a year later when I was moving out of that pace I found more under some of the furniture.

If the latch style is similar to mine I found that a keyring worked great. Not sure I could describe well in words how this worked, but basically I put the keyring on the horizontal cage bar just next to the latch. The latch mechanism has an L-shaped piece which goes through a slot on the cage (this sounds odd in words, but its just a regular latch, probably the most common cage latch). I put the L-shaped piece through the slot AND the keyring to lock it - to open it the level and the keyring both had to be lifted at the same time before the latch could slide out. Easy enough to do with two human hands, but a parrot couldn't manage both.
 

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