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just redownloaded tumblr cause im currently working on revamping my whole room in preparation for getting a new bird !! i was on here like 3 years ago with my parrotlet and since then ive lost her, which obviously took a very huge toll, but i think im ready to get back into it

theres so much work to be done but it’ll all be worth it, im sure ill have a lot of questions but for now i shall just get to work. also im a music producer/artist person, as in that is how i make a living, so im literally at home all day everyday with the exception of some weekends for shows. im very excited to have a buddy to keep me company all the time while i work on music n such!!!

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quick training session before it gets too late. i stuck with recall and stationing just to make sure she was comfortable with the new cage and the new stationing spot! tomorrow i think i’ll start teaching her to high five/rebound, hopefully we can continue to communicate clearly!

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a very happy turtle

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i got the basics of the cage setup this morning, and eve is a very happy bean! unfortunately, one of my rope perches end thingys broke off and i couldn’t use it her cage. on the bright side i still have the big manzita branch to put in there, i just have to get the hardware to mount it. i also switched eve to pellets today! at first she was majorly freaked out and was flying away from them, but once i hand fed her some she was like “oh, this stuff is actually pretty tasty.” another exciting thing is that eve is really liking the new toys i made her (the twine ball one and the weird cardboard thing)! she’s really starting to grasp the whole foraging concept, and i’m slowly making it more difficult. she’s been occupied all morning with the twine balls and the weird cardboard toy thing, especially the cardboard one. overall i’m really pleased with how this turned out, i feel much better about her wellbeing when i’m gone earlier in day. she has a load of room to fly and get exercise, and i can’t wait to get some toy parts so i can always provide eve with plenty of enrichment.

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finally had the time to get the new cage assembled! here’s a comparison between the old cage (it’s covered up because eve’s sleeping and i don’t want to wake her with the light), and the new one!!!

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desk buddy

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moo is so precious

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so today was my 16th birthday, and it was great one! we went to the locally owned pet store where i got eve from (which is like an hour and a half away) so i could get a lot stuff i needed for eve, and also so i could play with their birbs. i ended up getting a huge new cage, like 3x as big as her current one. along with that i got her harrisons pellets (we’ll be making the switch over from seeds, fingers crossed she likes them!), more treats and cuttle bones, some foraging parts/toys, and some new perches, including a pedi-perch and a big ol’ manizita branch.

my mom and dad also got me a featherbrite light, so me and eve should be all set for the future! the only thing now is to work in a lil more fruit and veggies into her diet, and to get some toy parts from feathered addictions, to make sure eve has plenty of mental enrichment and foraging opportunities.

tommorow i’ll be setting up the new cage and making all the changes, as well as posting pictures of the new setup! big shout outs to @flock-talk for providing a ton of knowledge and resources on parrotlet care, with out them i’d be totally lost and eve would probably be in way worse condition, and possibly even dead.

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What's the reason you don’t let the birds be out of the cage when you're at work?

It’s quite dangerous to do so! Birds can get in to a heck load of trouble when left unsupervised, things that we think they won’t go near or even in a room that’s been ‘bird-proofed’ there’s still a lot of risks.  Birds can end up chewing electrical wires, getting caught behind furniture, eat the caulking off of windows, chew through drywall or get in to just about anything they can get their beaks on.  With my two specifically I also have the issue of there being two of them, even though they’re civil there’s still a high risk of them turning on one another over a tiny disagreement and doing some serious harm to one another.  There’s also the risk of them getting spooked by just about anything, a bird flying by the window, a loud noise outside, which could cause them to panic and hurt themselves without someone there to rush them to the vet.

There’s also a very high risk of dehydration and starvation, a lot of birds fly up high then will sit there yelling because they can’t figure out how to get down. Newt in particular is also still struggling with understanding to go in the cage for food/water and needs to be ferried there every couple hours to check that he’s staying healthy.  If no one’s home he’ll just sit there and starve himself.

There just a lot of risk for birds being left unsupervised, a few moments in the cage with new enrichment is certainly my preferred choice over an injured bird

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this is the 3rd day of doing flight recall, and the second of stationing. she definitely has had way more trouble learning to fly back than to flying to me, but she’s getting the hang of it :D

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first she eat the almond, then the rug, then the string

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first day of recall training w/ eve

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Hello all!

Welcome to my blog about my fully flighted American Parrotlet, Eve (prounounced e-vee). She is quite the explorative and curious fellow, and has a knack for nibbling stuff (including me). This is where i’ll be posting pictures and videos of her, and hope to get help and feedback on keeping her as healthy and happy as possible.

For those of you who care who I am, my name is Cameron/Cam. I’m a 16 y/o dude who does martial arts, specifically bo staff, and gets to travel the country competing in it. I’ve had Eve for half a year now, and even though we’ve had our ups and downs, I couldn’t be happier with her. Recently we started training again, and she is a really fast learner. I hope you all enjoy her as much as I do, and I look forward to being apart of the birblr community!