Have You Ever Bathed with Your Snake?

[Kuamata]

Hello fellow parrot lady <3 Nice to see another parrot person with reptiles. Envious of your CAG. Wanted one since I was 13, but their capabilities make me feel as if they're just a million times more complicated to care for than my current feathery kids.

[shaunyboy]

Originally Posted by mistersprinkles

this wee guy is very cool,i love his eyes



cheers shaun

[mistersprinkles]

Originally Posted by Kuamata

Hello fellow parrot lady <3 Nice to see another parrot person with reptiles. Envious of your CAG. Wanted one since I was 13, but their capabilities make me feel as if they're just a million times more complicated to care for than my current feathery kids.

I'm not a lady. That's the breeder. She comes to visit him. She's very attached to all the birds she breeds. He loves her.

[mistersprinkles]

Originally Posted by shaunyboy

this wee guy is very cool,i love his eyes



cheers shaun

Ya he's great. He's got the best disposition you could ever ask for in a bird.
He loves orange juice and anything baked. Bread, cookies, muffins. He even likes chicken.

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by mistersprinkles

A snake is a tube with a mouth on one end and an exit hole at the other end.

Yes, but they're very interesting tubes, as are you.

[Kuamata]

Originally Posted by mistersprinkles

I'm not a lady. That's the breeder. She comes to visit him. She's very attached to all the birds she breeds. He loves her.

My apologies then Very nice to see such a responsible and caring breeder. Need more of 'em in general. I've been going back and forth on breeding, myself, but as I'm sure you're aware, breeders, especially with parrots and other more common pets, get a ton of flack, even if they are responsible.

The Senny is also adorable. His plumage is absolutely stunning, too. They both look exceptionally healthy

[mistersprinkles]

They better be healthy. I special order them organic food off Amazon and they get a varied diet with lots of different foods in it. They're also "free range" meaning that their cages are only locked at night. They have free range of the house. They always want to be wherever we are so we don't worry about them getting themselves into trouble. For awhile the senegal didn't want to sleep in his cage and he made a nest out of a winter hat on the coat rack. He slept in there for about a year. He's much more outgoing and inquisitive than the gray who is sort of reserved and observant. He's also very quiet for a grey. I think he was abused at his last home, he was a rescue. Poor bugger.

The senegal is totally trusting though. He falls asleep in my hands on his back all the time. And he loves trying to regurgitate food into my ear. Sometimes I don't catch him doing it and he manages to pull it off and I'm in the shower for half an hour trying to get my ear clean or vomited sweet potato and parrot stomach acid...

[Kuamata]

If it's Harrison's, I'm a little mixed on them, but each to their own. I know my blue and gold eventually rejected it despite being raised on it. Now I feed them a mixture of Roudybush, Bountiful Harvest Plus(My Safe Bird Store blend using human grade ingredients), and then fresh fruits and veggies of course.

If I only had birds, I would probably let them be free in the house if my kitchen actually had a wall to block it off. Having dogs and cats, though, I can't reasonably do that, so mine have their own bedrooms, and cages are only for sleeping but I don't lock them. I think a room is suitably sized for a full flighted macaw.

Our adopted Greenwing tried to make a nest of a guitar amp before I took it away from him, lol. He tries to regurgitate for me, but I ignore it and walk away when he does. I tell him I don't want to be his woman, lol. He's said to be 15 years old. We're shocked he has a clean bill of health, plucking aside.. for at least 12 years his former owner used Febreeze, air purifiers with ionizers, other air fresheners, household cleaning chemicals, and even used cleaning chemicals inside his cage... and fed him walmart brand parrot food loaded with peanuts and sunflower seeds, annnd he also only had one toy since he was a baby, supposedly. The former former owners passed that toy along with him, and then he passed it to us. :/ He's secretly my favorite, lol. I love my babies, but I love my adopted boy.

[mistersprinkles]

Originally Posted by Kuamata

If it's Harrison's, I'm a little mixed on them, but each to their own. I know my blue and gold eventually rejected it despite being raised on it. Now I feed them a mixture of Roudybush, Bountiful Harvest Plus(My Safe Bird Store blend using human grade ingredients), and then fresh fruits and veggies of course.

If I only had birds, I would probably let them be free in the house if my kitchen actually had a wall to block it off. Having dogs and cats, though, I can't reasonably do that, so mine have their own bedrooms, and cages are only for sleeping but I don't lock them. I think a room is suitably sized for a full flighted macaw.

Our adopted Greenwing tried to make a nest of a guitar amp before I took it away from him, lol. He tries to regurgitate for me, but I ignore it and walk away when he does. I tell him I don't want to be his woman, lol. He's said to be 15 years old. We're shocked he has a clean bill of health, plucking aside.. for at least 12 years his former owner used Febreeze, air purifiers with ionizers, other air fresheners, household cleaning chemicals, and even used cleaning chemicals inside his cage... and fed him walmart brand parrot food loaded with peanuts and sunflower seeds, annnd he also only had one toy since he was a baby, supposedly. The former former owners passed that toy along with him, and then he passed it to us. :/ He's secretly my favorite, lol. I love my babies, but I love my adopted boy.

I'm very understanding with my guys, I think thats why they like me so much, particularly the senegal. His name is George. The grey is Sylvester. Sylvester was almost certainly abused or mistreated before I got him so he'll never be 100% trusting. It's a shame really.

George on the other hand is 100% trusting. I don't reject him when he tries to throw up on me. I don't walk away or anything i just make sure he can't get it in my mouth or in my ear by shifting my position a little bit and then I pet him on the head or rub his beak and that gets his attention away from regurgitating. I had him on my shoulder once playing videogames with headphones on and he regurgitated on the headphones trying to get it in my ear. It was gross, but funny.

I have fish too.


But I have never bathed with them.

Here are a few more shots of Mr. George.


Here he is on my knee. He puffs his feathers out when he's with people to let us know he's comfortable.












BTW yes the staple food I use is Harrison's. I had only heard good things. I was recommended to me on a Parrot forum when I got George in 2008.

What's wrong with it? What should I use instead?

[Mad Max]

Originally Posted by mistersprinkles

I have fish too.

An Aulonocara?

[Kuamata]

Not saying they're bad, just that I personally don't prefer them, and neither does some of my kids. I'm also not comfortable that it's almost always recommended... I don't know, with other aninals, a widely trusted and recommended brand can go sour real quick, and when it comes to birds and their efficient systems, that can mean a lot of deaths if anything were to happen.

As I'm sure you know, certain things will work for one person, but not for another. Also, it's not that I'm not being understanding, it's that I'm telling him I'm not interested in mating. He is a mature male. If he had his way, he would be my mate.

Regurgitation is often a sign of love, yes, but in mature birds it roughly translates into,"I want to be more than a friend." Me and Quincy, is his name, are best friends, but not mates. I am the apple of his eye, no doubt, but I'm not his prize to protect from intruders. It's one thing with a small bird, but another to have a big aggressive male macaw attacking others because he perceives them as a threat to his mate. I have a fiance, and Quincy goes out in public. I don't need him claiming me, I'm already claimed. If you read on them a lot, I'm sure you've heard the countless stories about raging hormones causing a beloved parrot to relentlessly attack a significant other, and most often the other partner has no clue why their bird has 'suddenly become mean'. These kinds of misunderstandings is only one of a long list on why many end up rehomed. Most owners simply don't know that they're triggering hormonal responses, misleading their parrot into false promises, etc.

My babies, though, they do that with me, but I allow it because they are still young. Once puberty hits, though, it stops.

Edit: Also, gorgeous fish. I'm horrible with fish, otherwise I'd have some high dollar saltwater fish. Love to watch 'em, something therapeutic about it... but I'm horrible at maintaining water balances.

[SnoopySnake]

You guys are making me miss my conures, those little guys were so neat. Those are very nice birds, I really like the african grey. Always wanted one but they're too much work for me.

[mistersprinkles]

Originally Posted by Mad Max

An Aulonocara?

That's an Othopharynx lithobates. It's a hap, not a peacock.

http://vid110.photobucket.com/albums...ap/Movie-2.mp4

^These guys were my fav fish that I ever had. Tang gobies.

Originally Posted by Kuamata

Edit: Also, gorgeous fish. I'm horrible with fish, otherwise I'd have some high dollar saltwater fish. Love to watch 'em, something therapeutic about it... but I'm horrible at maintaining water balances.

So get something that doesn't require you to balance anything. Get an Oscar, or a Flowerhorn in a nice 120Gal tank. All they need is water, oxygen, and food. It doesn't matter if your pH shifts a bit or your nitrate gets a bit high once in a while. Same goes for most of the danios if you want a smaller tank. Zebra danios could be kept in almond milk for years, I'm sure of it, and they'd be just fine.

If you want to add me to skype I'm at pabloescobar83111 and I can walk you through setup and maintenance for some easy fish. If you can do reptiles, you can do fish. It's really easy.







Why don't you start simple like a 29 or 35 gallon aquarium with a pair of Aquaclear 70 filters and a 150 watt heater and get 20 zebra danios?
They're very entertaining to watch. If you take good care of them you'll even get babies. My friend got babies and he was the worst fishkeeper I ever met.

[SnoopySnake]

So I dug up some pictures of our old conures, looking back, I really wish we knew how to take care of them better. We had a sun conure and the other one was either a half moon or peach front conure. I think they needed a bigger cage and better food. They were cool though, we taught the green one to dance and say hello, and whenever it got too loud for him he would start screeching and sounded exactly like an alarm clock. The orange one was more reserved, she wasn't as good about being handled.

Sorry these pics are so blurry, they're a good 7-8 years old, lol.

Sunny



Bomber

[Kuamata]

Awww, cute babies. I'd show mine, but I'd end up making a few posts. You can always refer to my intro thread, though. http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/new-f...ho-s-back.html

I am, however, adding this fiesty little bugger to my flock soon. He's a red factor sunny, and has been in two other homes that I know of. Both times rehomed due to being mean.

Also treated myself to a little gift with my taxes, lol. May not be a scaley, but was a long time dream to have one of these in this mutation. I love her to death.~

Also, Mr. Sprinkles, that Flowerhorn is gorgeous. My fiance really loves Oscars, though. I love lighter colored animals and colorful ones, she prefers darker animals... Ironically, though, she loves cockatoos but does not like the Palm Cockatoo... Red Tailed Blacks, though, are on her list of favorites. She's a sucker for our Umbrella girl, though.