One Dog and Two Birds

Treat Toss

Bala — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:53:18 +0000

Here is a real short clip of one of Amy’s latest tricks… catching a treat (Charlie Bear) by tossing it from her nose. Works only if she was still enough to balance it first and we are working on concentration skills!

Last Month of Snow

Bala — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:43:29 +0000

We are really really hoping for it to stop snowing and finally see some sun. It was very pleasant for a few days last week, and we played outside a lot. It was good to see the snow melting finally. However, it snowed again last three days and it is warm now. The ice has started to melt quite a bit and Amy is determined to make the best of the piles up snow and ice before it is hot here and spends quite a bit of time investigating things in the snow!

How else do you think we can keep busy in this weather?

Fate of the Box

Bala — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:22:40 +0000

On Day 6, this is what was left of the box from the post below! Can you imagine how hard the babies had to work to get here?

How to keep two birds busy

Bala — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:49:59 +0000

A lot of people visit our site, looking for tips on adopting birds, mostly conures of course. Though we have been meaning to write about adopting birds, we can tell you this right now: It is not easy to keep two of them busy.

Pepper is a quite girl and hardly ever makes any noise, she calls to us if she wants food or need to go to bed. However, Nikko is a entirely different story. He is young, very healthy and has loads of energy. It is a challenge to come up with ideas that would help him burn off some of that excess energy, if he is not tired, is directed towards me (mostly with anger). Nikko did not grow up with toys and doesn’t care for them. I have tried to get him interested in them, but we haven’t had any luck yet. However, he likes to shred (Pepper too) and thats one way to keep him busy.

I gave him this card board box, about a month back. Pepper tends to keep away from new things, whereas Nikko loves to investigate them. So, as he came near, I threw in some seeds inside the box (I had cut a hole for him to get in) and in a few minutes he was inside.

The first day, he shredded all the flaps of the box inside and threw the box off the cage a couple of times, and scattered shredded cardboard all over the place.

Pepper joined him from day 2, she liked to shred from the outside and did not want to venture in.

Watch out for happened to the box in 6 days!!!

Things as usual

Bala — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:43:56 +0000

Nothing much has changed in Wisconsin, since the last time we wrote - the snow is still there and we are having really cold days and nights. Well, actually we are seeing he sun more often now, but not enough to melt the snow piles. Amy has been enjoying the snow, a lot more than we do, and runs around like crazy.

She has lost a lot more balls this winter in the snow than ever before and spends a lot of time searching for them in places that she will not be able to find them.

Here she is in one of her mad dashes across the yard. Oh, she has also been jumping from top of the snow piles, which I am hoping to get a video of soon.

Colbert, the Bear

Bala — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:53:49 +0000

For her birthday, along with a bunch of little toys, Amy also got a big Bear toy, whom we named Colbert (after Stephen Colbert from the Colbert Report). Honestly we never expected Colbert to last this long - it has been more than 6 months and he is still intact. Amy loves him, and when we get excited about him, she will drag him from one room to another, hold him by the leg or ears and shake him violently. She also like to lie down on him and reflect.

New Bed

Bala — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:35:54 +0000

This was Amy’s old bed - it became too old, and so, when we were on our road trip to the South, we got a new one. But I made a mistake on the size of the bed and got her one that was a little bit smaller than what she would like. Here is her new one, what I think is a little too big, especially since she has been sleeping with us on the bed. However, she loves it too much and with the weather not so good, spends a lot of time sleeping on her new bed.

Yumm..

Bala — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:10:36 +0000

Now this is what we call a gourmet meal

Waiting

Bala — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:07:49 +0000

Nikko knows to tell time - not exactly but he definitely knows the time when dad comes home. Soon after 5 pm, almost everyday, Nikko goes to the top of the cage and starts watching outside. Since dad walks home from work, Nikko can see for a little ways from his watch post and will start to get really excited when he sees dad. It is actually hard to persuade him away from the post, as nothing is better than daddy!

Finding Bunny

Bala — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:54:39 +0000

We have at least one bunny living under our back porch. Given that there are few interesting things happening outside these days, Amy has taken to checking for the bunny whenever she can.

The bunny has three holes through which it comes and goes and Amy keeps track of all those, sniffing from where the bunny went and which one it came back in.

Entry 1: Bunny uses to go to the neighbor’s porch.

Entry 2: Bunny uses to go to the house behind us with bushes.

Entry 3: Bunny uses to confuse Amy