Seriously Fargo.. My heart stopped -_-

[tab_xo]

Fargo never ceases to amaze me, Tab. He's an amazingly gifted bird! Looks like he just escaped to prove that he could. Keeping you on your toes. Lol! I'm so glad nothing happened in your absence.

And heartfelt congratulations on your acceptance!!! Looks like Fargo isn't the only gifted one.

Hahahah i think he is too smart for his own good!!

I wonder how long he had been out for... Could of been 2 hours or 2 minutes :09:


Thank you! Getting lots of 'i am very proud of you' from my family.. Mum got me chocolate cake as well

 

[JerseyWendy]

You know how proud I am of you, and how happy I am for you that you got into uni!!! You deserve this SO much, Tab!!!

So now you're dealing with a Houdini, too? :11: Uh-oooh....Fargo, Fargo, Fargo....don't you be giving mum any troubles. :54:

 

[tab_xo]

Hehehe Thank you Wendy!!


Dad got home tonight... and said.. I am very proud of you..



Dad has never said the word proud to me my whole life hahaha


Then he said which station are you going to train at?

and i said i am not sure, toowoomba or gatton

and he said, go to gatton, then you can go see your friend (cam) and you can tell him that you got accepted!! hahaha





Hahaha he is learning Niko's habits!!! He tried taking his food dish out, he can easily do that, but doesn't do it often thank god

 

[crimson]

Tab, I'm sure if Fargo had gotten out, he only would have been looking for you so he could ride too

such a good boy!

congratulations on your acceptance!!, that is just awesome, awesome news.

 

[Birdman666]

I've got five loose in my house at all times... incidents are very few and far between.

Once they are trained, they are trained.

My greenwing is out and about trained, even fully flighted, I can take her to Starbucks, set her down on the back of a chair outside, go in and get my coffee, and come out to have her right there where I left her, minding her manners...

I go to the laundry-mat and take Maggie with me. I just take her bird tree and throw it in the back of the car, and set it up outside the laundrymat. She sits out there and plays with her toys, and me in between loads and folding. When I'm inside working on the laundry she is outside by herself just fine. She can see me through the window. Never in five years of doing this with her have I had a single incident of her flying off, or misbehaving... She loves it, and this is our one on one time.

So, I would suggest working on that next with Fargo, and your heart won't skip a beat next time. He's clearly bonded to you. Stay put training, and fly to me, are exceedingly useful with a big mac! These are not "tricks." These are things you teach them to protect them when they go outside.

 

[Terry57]

Thank goodness Fargo was just hanging out, waiting for you! I can only imagine how your heart skipped a few beats.
Congratulations on your acceptance! What a wonderful choice of career for you - you will be amazing at that

 

[goalerjones]

Congrats on school (also happy his Fargo-ness didn't get into trouble). But my question is about going away? To school. Is it close or will you be away from home for long periods of time?

 

[tab_xo]

I've got five loose in my house at all times... incidents are very few and far between.

Once they are trained, they are trained.

My greenwing is out and about trained, even fully flighted, I can take her to Starbucks, set her down on the back of a chair outside, go in and get my coffee, and come out to have her right there where I left her, minding her manners...

I go to the laundry-mat and take Maggie with me. I just take her bird tree and throw it in the back of the car, and set it up outside the laundrymat. She sits out there and plays with her toys, and me in between loads and folding. When I'm inside working on the laundry she is outside by herself just fine. She can see me through the window. Never in five years of doing this with her have I had a single incident of her flying off, or misbehaving... She loves it, and this is our one on one time.

So, I would suggest working on that next with Fargo, and your heart won't skip a beat next time. He's clearly bonded to you. Stay put training, and fly to me, are exceedingly useful with a big mac! These are not "tricks." These are things you teach them to protect them when they go outside.

I guess Fargo is sort of stay put trained... In the mornings he wakes up at 4am.. and i wake up at about 8am..

and he stays on his gym until i wake up, never wanders around while i am sleeping!

Also when we are outside, he will sit on the chair and i will go get a drink and just get mum to watch him, and he just sits there waiting

But i would never go cageless!

And he is flight recall trained Inside and outside..

BUT..


I ride 2km away from my house in an arena.... Fargo would have to fly 2km to try and find me..


There is not another house near me for 3km... Because we are surrounded by mountains.. We don't have towns or anything near us

IF Fargo ever got outside and tried to fly and find me... He WOULD get lost... All he has to do is fly over a small mountain, or even down in the valley and he would be in a completely different section


Hence i will never take Fargo outside without a harness...

If he got lost no one could find him, because houses are very far away from each other! Even if someone did find him, most people around me are crazy people :31:

Also i have 2 cats and 2 dogs that would kill him if he got outside Not to mention wild cats and dingos.. Lots of dingos hahaha

 

[tab_xo]

Congrats on school (also happy his Fargo-ness didn't get into trouble). But my question is about going away? To school. Is it close or will you be away from home for long periods of time?

Thank you!


Well i am doing 4 courses this semester... NO RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS!


Only one i have to go to is in September... Which is about 6 hours away, but mum says i can bring Fargo and we stay in a pet friendly motel.. We only have to be there 2 days!


and exams i get to do at the town which is only 40 minutes away!




3 years ago, you didn't have to go to uni to be a paramedic, the courses were all through the ambulance station.. But now you have to get a degree -_-


But the reason i don't have to go anywhere, is because my local ambulance station will basically teach me all my training...

 

[strudel]

Is there a way to have a sonar at "home base" so that birds could always find their way home if they got away (Fargo might not know where you are, but if he could always go home, it could be ok, unless he got attacked)? Do all birds have "gps" like homing pigeons, or are they special?

Now I'm worried about Fargo lost in the mountains. Sheesh, as if I haven't got enough of my own pets to worry about.

 

[tab_xo]

Is there a way to have a sonar at "home base" so that birds could always find their way home if they got away (Fargo might not know where you are, but if he could always go home, it could be ok, unless he got attacked)? Do all birds have "gps" like homing pigeons, or are they special?

Now I'm worried about Fargo lost in the mountains. Sheesh, as if I haven't got enough of my own pets to worry about.

That is interesting!! Someone told me they can recognise landmarks if you take them outside and show them where they are..

But i think that would only work in town, where there are lots of recognisable sites, big signs ect..

Where as out here there is only my house, then 2km is another house, which no one even lives in.. So he would have to fly around trying to find something apart from trees haha


So i guess you could say, well that is good, if he flies up high, he could easily spot the only house as his own.. But the bush is sooo dense, and the mountains are so big, that he only has to fly 50m from my house and he is already either down into a valley or up onto a mountain



Good thing is, even though Fargo goes outside, i know he won't fly UP, so he would fly into the trees, but i don't think he would fly over mountains if he got loose..

He would be too scared :54:



Here is our house from the road.. You can't see it because it is behind trees... It doesn't look that high because its compared to the huge mountains behind it hahaha But our mountain is very high!


Then about 50m from the house yard on the left, it drops down into a big valley

 

[goalerjones]

Is there a way to have a sonar at "home base" so that birds could always find their way home if they got away (Fargo might not know where you are, but if he could always go home, it could be ok, unless he got attacked)? Do all birds have "gps" like homing pigeons, or are they special?

Now I'm worried about Fargo lost in the mountains. Sheesh, as if I haven't got enough of my own pets to worry about.

That is interesting!! Someone told me they can recognise landmarks if you take them outside and show them where they are..

But i think that would only work in town, where there are lots of recognisable sites, big signs ect..

Where as out here there is only my house, then 2km is another house, which no one even lives in.. So he would have to fly around trying to find something apart from trees haha


So i guess you could say, well that is good, if he flies up high, he could easily spot the only house as his own.. But the bush is sooo dense, and the mountains are so big, that he only has to fly 50m from my house and he is already either down into a valley or up onto a mountain



Good thing is, even though Fargo goes outside, i know he won't fly UP, so he would fly into the trees, but i don't think he would fly over mountains if he got loose..

He would be too scared :54:



Here is our house from the road.. You can't see it because it is behind trees... It doesn't look that high because its compared to the huge mountains behind it hahaha But our mountain is very high!


Then about 50m from the house yard on the left, it drops down into a big valley

Is that 2nd picture how it looks on a globe?

 

[tab_xo]

What do you mean? :O

 

[Birdman666]

Pretty country. Looks peaceful!

I seriously doubt that Fargo would fly off on you. What you are describing is the same way Maggie is to me.

Take precautions to keep them safe, but I wouldn't lose sleep over him flying away. He's bonded to you. Bonded macaws stay with their person.

They have big old hearts to match those big old beaks... for those who understand them.

Amazons are much the same way. So are conures. Pair bond birds.

 

[Allee]

Congratulations on your acceptance!! I'm surprised you didn't need a paramedic when you saw that door. What a good, good boy Fargo is, didn't even eat a perfectly tasty keyboard.

 

[JerseyWendy]

.....What you are describing is the same way Maggie is to me.

Birdman, you speak so much and so lovingly of your flock, I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like nothing more than to see some pictures/footage of your fids already. I think it's WAY past due.

 

[Birdman666]

I don't have a way of doing that right now...

I have a TON of pics I'd like to share.

I would love to Debunk the height dominance myth... if I could get someone (my daughter) to sneak in a photo of Maggie with her morning head scratch. She towers over me on top of her cage. Her double macaw cage is 7 ft tall. (I'm only 6 ft.) In the mornings, when I am doing my morning feedings, she gets her extended head scratch by leaning over and laying her head sideways on the top of my head... usually accompanied by the macaw soft baby noises...

And that is how I have started each morning for the past five and a half years of my life!

"Macaw Aggression!"

 

[Jett424]

What a awesome bird. He was just waiting for you to get back. Naww.

 

[goalerjones]

What do you mean? :O

The pictures posted upside down...