[Roaming_bird]

Today was a light work day. I was able to get in a nap, a 2.5 mile walk, tea and conversation with a great friend, and now I'm sitting with my cockatoo. Typing with a cockatoo, though, is somewhat a challenge. Like a dog, he will take my finger in his beak and push it towards his head for a pet.

I didn't get a lot done, but I've been stable and happy. Egads now the bird is picking at a small scab on my hand. Birds....

[pirilin]

Wow!! not a lot?. If I could do 1/2 that, I'll be in heaven.

[Roaming_bird]

Originally Posted by pirilin

Wow!! not a lot?. If I could do 1/2 that, I'll be in heaven.

Hypomania helps a lot, lol.

[ComfortablyNumb5]

Glad you had a good day! Like pirilin said, that is a lot lol. I haven't left my room I'm two wks now. Stuck in here with my hypo thoughts and tapping away on my phone, hyperfocused. My cockatoo is in the living room clucking like a chicken lol. She's driving me nuts. I get sensitive to sound when I'm like this. I used to keep her perched on a chair in my room with me with plastic under her (don't need to explain why lol). She would sleep when I did, watch the tv ect. She really likes watching people play video games too. She gives kisses by licking your hand too. She needs a shower though. We take her in there with us about every few wks lol

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[Icare dixit]

Sounds like a nice and perfectly normal, lovely day.

Enjoy your stability! Feel the absence of unhealthy importance.

[Roaming_bird]

Rx, I'm sorry you're struggling. If it weren't for my kids, job, and and pets, I would be in bed most of the time when I'm depressed too.

I'm glad someone has a quirky too, too. Mine sleeps in our room in his cage, but if I want to take a nap I have to sleep in my daughter's room because the darn thing won't stop talking or screaming. Mine loves showers and will actually fly in if he's not in a cage.

[Ocean Swimmer]

I used to train birds.
I had an Amazon. A Mollucan peach crested cookatiel. Then another white foot white beak Amazon.
They started out so wild I had to have a steel glove to get them out of the cage. Training took about 6 weeks 4 hrs a day.

[Roaming_bird]

Wow, ocean! that's incredible.

[violetgreen]

Sounds like a wonderful day! I have 2 cockatiels who are chirping happily right now because it's supper time!

[ComfortablyNumb5]

That awesome ocean swimmer! You're very brave to be around untrained birds. Even though mine has never bit, I still know in the back of my mind that she could take off my finger if she really wanted lol.

Roaming bird, my too is only quiet when you're in the same room as her. And since I'm home alone and she's being bad, i might have to come out of my hoke and sit in the living room. That sucks! And omg the screaming they do! That sets me off big time. Sometimes when I'm outside my house all the way in the parking lot you can hear her. I worry about the neighbors I share a wall with.

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[Ocean Swimmer]

I trained her not to screech
Covered her cage at night. Had an empty box of cereal. Would crouch in kitchen by the opening to the bar. When she'd screetch, I'd hurl the box at
Her cage.
I met a breeder who was so amazed. She was trying to breed out the screetch. So I reluctantly sold her to the breeder.

Her name was Pinky. She was so tame she'd climb off her day stand, walk into the bedroom, jump up on the bed. Lay down and listen to my heart.

Then I'd say, what about the covers? She'd use her beak to pull them up over us. And this coming from a bird from the Orange Co Fair Bird Show so wild I needed Steel gloves.
She was amazing. Sulfer crested Molucan Cockatoo. Bigger than the Barreta bird with the yellow crest.
I love animals.