We’re back from the vet.
Here’s a photo of me on the scale after I was toweled (for getting my blood drawn, my heart listen to, my throat looked down, my vent examined and just generally *violated*!!). Not only did I not like being manhandled, but look at how messy my feathers got!!
But the [...]
My human has been so busy lately that she hasn’t been able to spend as much time with us as we’d like. But she’s on vacation for a week, which means we will get lots more time with her.
But… lots of time at home can sometimes coincide with reappearance of … The Kissing Monster! (*gasp*) [...]
The human prepared sprouts, but was out of clean stainless steel cups that she usually serves our food in… so she put my sprouts on a plastic lid and left it for me on top of my cage.
She went back into the kitchen to fix Stewie’s portion and when she came back she noticed I [...]
We’ve made a breakthrough! Late last year I posted that I knew how to play the target game, but that I was confused about the next trick I was supposed to be learning.
You see, there’s this pink ring that my human would give to me, but that she didn’t want me to play with. She [...]
Oh boy, what a couple of weeks I’ve had. My human agreed to house- and dog-sit for some friends and Stewie and I went along for the ride.
We watched my human run around like a crazy person trying to take care of 5 animals! All three of the dogs were senior, and two of [...]
If you’ve read my previous posts, you’d know that I’m not a fan of smushy food.
Well, today my human decided that I really need to try some cooked sweet potato. They are chock full of something she calls nutrients, she tells me. (Are nutrients what make food mushy?)
But I wouldn’t eat it when she served [...]
I had not been in the mood to blog lately. I was cranky. My human tells me that I must’ve be hormonal.
Early this year (for what seemed like for-evaahh) Stewie suffered from some sort of parrot hormone thing (or rather, we suffered). He screamed all the time for no reason, he was mean to me, [...]
When I came to live with my human I already had a name: Mika. The human also calls me Mika Cheeka, and Mika Squeak-a (because I squeak a lot). The tall man calls me “The Turkey.” (That’s called irony, because I look like a regal eagle, the opposite of a turkey. I’m not a Turkey! [...]
Our human went away last week to a place called “vacation”. That meant the Stu-monster and I had to go to a bird sitter. It was okay, but the bird sitter did not take me into the shower the way my human usually does. Showers are important for all parrots, but especially dusty ones like [...]
Q: How do you get parrots to go back inside their cage?
A: Bribe them.
Bribe them with something sooooooo yummy they can’t resist. Not just a sunflower seed or a pistachio – although those are pretty good as treats for normal occasions. No, to get any bird in my household to run right back inside [...]
