osnyder
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Hello bird friends! Stitch has been with us five weeks now.
Stitch the beautiful quirky blue crown continues to do well. His previously peeling beak, which briefly looked alarmingly bad, looks better-- it looks like maybe it was normal at the moment. His chest is still rough looking, no serious sign of regrowth-- sometimes I think I see pin feathers starting to come through but I think my eyes are fooling me.
He is not screaming so much, not at all. He has a morning loud time and a twilight loud time; he seems louder for longer at night. I call him the "squeaky toy," because that's exactly what his normal call sounds like. He is talking a lot, altering some of what he came with-- I am pretty sure he's said "Hi Stitcheroo" a bunch of times, and he's definitely yelled my husband's name, Rick, in an excellent Edith Bunker inflection.
If he is in or on his cage, he will not step up for me, so I have Rick bring him to me to hang out, which he likes. Two nights ago he was hanging out on my shoulder and he kept scooting back and forth across my chest to get from one ear to another-- he likes earrings. He allows me to pet him in any situation, and he is now actually nipping me and not actually BITING me-- I can tell it's with much less force-- when I DO try to get him to step up and he's not interested. I can pet and scratch his chest and legs which is serious progress, considering he'd just bend down and chomp before.
He's eating well-- not a huge range of fresh things unfortunately, just apples, fresh pineapple maybe, carrots. I make him egg several times a week, and he definitely eats his zupreem pellets. I bought the fruit ones before I realized he was eating the normal ones-- yick! they remind me of fruit loops without the sugar smell to cover up the fake fruit flavor. But he likes them so I give them to him for fun. vitamins in the water.
And that's it for now! We're going to Puerto Rico for 10 days on Sunday so he's going to our friend's house, very very experienced with birds. We're rolling his whole cage over so he'll have the familiarity of that, but I'm a little nervous about how he'll be when we get back.
Cheers!
Olivia
Stitch the beautiful quirky blue crown continues to do well. His previously peeling beak, which briefly looked alarmingly bad, looks better-- it looks like maybe it was normal at the moment. His chest is still rough looking, no serious sign of regrowth-- sometimes I think I see pin feathers starting to come through but I think my eyes are fooling me.
He is not screaming so much, not at all. He has a morning loud time and a twilight loud time; he seems louder for longer at night. I call him the "squeaky toy," because that's exactly what his normal call sounds like. He is talking a lot, altering some of what he came with-- I am pretty sure he's said "Hi Stitcheroo" a bunch of times, and he's definitely yelled my husband's name, Rick, in an excellent Edith Bunker inflection.
If he is in or on his cage, he will not step up for me, so I have Rick bring him to me to hang out, which he likes. Two nights ago he was hanging out on my shoulder and he kept scooting back and forth across my chest to get from one ear to another-- he likes earrings. He allows me to pet him in any situation, and he is now actually nipping me and not actually BITING me-- I can tell it's with much less force-- when I DO try to get him to step up and he's not interested. I can pet and scratch his chest and legs which is serious progress, considering he'd just bend down and chomp before.
He's eating well-- not a huge range of fresh things unfortunately, just apples, fresh pineapple maybe, carrots. I make him egg several times a week, and he definitely eats his zupreem pellets. I bought the fruit ones before I realized he was eating the normal ones-- yick! they remind me of fruit loops without the sugar smell to cover up the fake fruit flavor. But he likes them so I give them to him for fun. vitamins in the water.
And that's it for now! We're going to Puerto Rico for 10 days on Sunday so he's going to our friend's house, very very experienced with birds. We're rolling his whole cage over so he'll have the familiarity of that, but I'm a little nervous about how he'll be when we get back.
Cheers!
Olivia
