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OT: Mucha's a pin-head

When I told DH that Mucha was molting, he expressed the hope that Mucha would be as "pretty" as he continuously claims to be by the time DH gets home from a trip to see his family.

DH is due home tonight. I don't think Mucha is ready. Pins all over his head, and several cheek-spots still missing (he doesn't loose them symmetrically, so he looks lop-sided).

Some are just emerging and, because they distort the pattern of stripes on his face, it looks like someone beat him up. He finally lost that feather which was turned backwards on his back which he WOULD NOT let me help him get rid of (unlike the "big beurdies", he doesn't like being touched. We are allowed to blow on his face, and when he gets itchy enough he'll let us preen his neck a tiny bit with our lips. No fingers, and nowhere other then his chin area. Of course, *he* can preen

*us* ANYWHERE and pull ANYTHING he decides is a blemish off of our skin.) His chest also looks all patchy because of lost feathers.

Once again, he has failed to molt the really horrible looking stomach feathers, or at least, most of them. We can't figure out why he won't molt this area that obviously needs it. The nutritional supplement the vet gave doesn't seem to be doing anything in that regard.

So... he can claim he is "pah-pretty" or even "Prit!", but he isn't.

*sighs* DH will just have to pretend.

marisa2

ps - for you muchacam enthusiasts, no news yet. We switched to DSL which forced us to take Yahoo as our ISP. The webspace they gave us literally is Geocities and a photo-album account. They only allow upload to the website through a webpage ... which means that a program that automatically ftps up every X number of seconds (which is necessary to run a web-cam) won't work. DH is playing with the idea of setting up a web-server in the house. Since we don't have a static external IP address I fail to see what good that will do, other then allowing us to see Muchacam anywhere within our own house (there are a variable number of computers around here, but that number is always way more then one).

Right now Mucha is cooing at me sweetly. That means I'm about to get bitten. I'd better get dressed and go to work. *sighs*

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LOL pooooor Mucha! :)

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Kandice Seeber

Thanks for the story Marisa! I love hearing about Mucha the "pretty beurdie". :-) Animals are so interesting and unusual and they bring such joy to our lives (even if they are bad!) I had a cockatiel that used to eat the button off of *every* remote for the TV we got. She also liked to chew the sides of books, so I have many books with an eaten appearance. It might have annoyed us then, but looking back I miss those silly things she did.

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Valerie

*L* Mucha was trying that on the tv-tuner yesterday. It didn't dawn on me that he could actually bite it off (he is about 1/2 the size of a cockatiel, or maybe 1/3). He can eat through book-covers or magazines faster then you can realize he's standing by one. I don't mind on junk mail but when he ate 1/3 of a check before I caught him, that wasn't good, nor are the byte marks on an antique book I got for someone :)

He also LOVES to eat the little plastic baggies that beads come in. As I have told before, he likes gurgling to piles of beads and pulling on strands of beads. He also likes taking a bead and running away with it (probably encouraged by the uproar I make any time he goes near the beads.)

When I am beading he decides he really REALLY wants my attention and keeps landing on my hand and fancy-dancing, even if he totally ignores me if I am just sitting there wanting to play with him. I suspect that is part of why he goes after the beads... but little objects and things to bite are always of interest.

marisa2

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Marisa E Exter

Silly me! I've been offering Tweeter lettuce and apple slices as treats. Maybe I should be giving her/him the leftover remotes (we thorugh out Tv's but can't seem to part with the remotes) and crumbled up paper!

Jewitch

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Jewitch

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*LOL*

Of course!!

The doctor said parakeets can have any 'people food' except for chocolate and avacados, but that he shouldn't have too many carbohydrates, fats, sugar, or salt (just like us all?). Unfortunately Mucha goes right for the pasta, fried potatoes, cookies, and saucy bits. He is scared of carrots and ambivolent about most other fruits and vegetables (if they are in our bowl they are much more interesting then on the "birdy plate" at meal times. Non-seeds are NOT allowed to go into his dish and are either scary or ignorable if stuck between the bars of his cage.) We keep trying though. The fact that he will eat off of "birdy plate" (a desert plate with a representative sample of our dinner on it) at all is big progress from him running all over our food and taking a bite out of each piece (not that he doesn't try that anyhow).

marisa2

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Marisa E Exter

LOL, Marisa - I can *so* picture this!!

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Carol in SLC

LOL! Crumbled up paper is also the cheapest cat toy you will ever buy!

Valerie

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Valerie

We have cats so the only time Tweeter gets out of his cage is a once-a-week outing in our large bathroom. Then all s/he wants to do is chew on my hair and flirt witht the beautiful bird in the mirror. Maybe next week-end I'll try a cookie or some potato chips -- the cats all love Pringles, why shouldn't the bird?

Jewitch

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Jewitch

Especially since Tweeter doesn't sound like s/he gets much excersize, probably it would be best not to give too much fat or sugar.

The vet said they can get fat and it is very bad for them.

Mucha is so hyper-busy during his hours of out-time every day that I think it would be harder for him to get fat (not that it is a good idea for him to eat badly either. Mostly we keep him away from stuff like chips or cookies, but he does eat a lot of pasta and stuff like that)

marisa2

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marisa2

In-use ink pens are Mucha's great enemy! He must bite their tips before they further mar pieces of paper. If I should try to, say, lift the pen so that I can write another word, I get into BIG trouble. Shooing him away from the pen is pretty difficult (good thing about dealing with a bird-brain is that after a couple of tries I get him far enough away that he finds something else of interest (preferably a reflective item) and becomes ingrossed in talking to it.)

marisa2

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