Determination

Dear Piper,

I admire your gritty determination and hard will that makes you want to fight the odds to get a blue berry from your bowl at the top of the cage all the way down to me, but we need to have a talk.  Not only are you leaving a trail of smeared blue berry from the top of the cage on down, it's a little bit creepy.  You stop and stare intently at me while chewing at your blueberry.  If I turn to look at you, you stop and just stare right back at me until I go back to what I was doing.  You obviously don't want attention, you obviously don't want me to snuggle you or pick you up, so what do you want?  Do you just want to stare at me while you eat?  It's kind of stalkerish actually.  Please eat up on the top of your cage with your food, I'm really tired of scrubbing blueberry and other things off the side of the cage.

Also I hope you're prepared!  The new fid arrives tomorrow and there's going to be some changes to the house. I hope you like him, I hope both of you get along and become friends.  If not I promise I won't make you jealous.  You'll still be getting all sorts of love and snuggles from me every day!

Yawning

I learned a new lesson today.  Do NOT yawn with the bird on your shoulder.  Why?  Because Piper apparently thinks she's a lion in a circus act.  Bird head in the mouth..not a good way to be waking up. LOL

Tea and Cakes

Dear Piper,

You're such a smart girl!  You're figuring out how the British eat have decided that when you get your treats you should do the same.  There's just one little ground rule though.  That's your bath tub, that is not a cup of tea.  That is a nutriberry, not a cake.  So will you please stop perching on the edge of your bath tub dunking your nutriberry before eating it?  The waters all fouled now!  Oh..and when you're done, pleaseeeeee stop flinging it into space.  You're going to make the cats unhappy from the soggy seeds everywhere!

Not in the pizza!

Dear Piper,

Yes I'm eating lunch!  I have to do this to live you see.  This means of course that I'm not fawning over you and I know how abused you are.  Six hours out of the cage with me playing, training and babying you, of course you're abused!  Twenty minutes without me might mean instant death.

However.  Throwing your pacifier OFF of your cage and INTO my pizza is not a good way to make me hurry up and eat.  I'm confused on if you actually wanted me to give you more attention or if you wanted to taste the pizza.

That's not a forcefield

Piper,

Did you really realize I was making a blog for these sorts of notes? You had to of to do what you just did.  Your cage door is wide open like it is EVERY morning.  It lets you go in and out of the cage with ease until it's time to be put away.  I don't know why you thought that entering at the bottom of the cage and walking along the floor before climbing up changed this.  Did you think perhaps you had gone into someone else's cage?  Was it a cage in an alternate dimension?

For whatever reason the cage door which is 12 inches wide and 36 inches tall is WIDE OPEN.  Will you please stop dancing back and forth on the side of the cage making pleading noises to be set free?  It's open, WIDE OPEN.  Just walk out.  Oh..I see.  You want to walk out of the door for your water dish.  It was the only way to escape your strange alternate dimension safely.  Yes, that makes perfect sense.  Ohhh how I love you.

Love
The Alternate Dimension Owner

Intro

Dear Piper,

You came into my life a few months ago and I was hesitant and scared at getting you.  After all, the only other green cheek I had ever met was a nippy and rather wicked bird!  Still, I saw you and fell in love with the soft muted colors and spunky personality.  I was sure that you'd be a joy to have in my house so excitedly you came home with me.

You've gone through so many changes!  A new house,new people, new cage (twice..yeah always go bigger with cages!) and I'm still learning.  You're a joy to my life and make every day not just wonderful, but certainly interesting!!  We're just going to have a little discussion about this morning...

I know you want raspberries.  You love them.  However due to the red bird foot prints all over the couch you aren't getting any today.  The correct response to this is to eat the delicious blueberry, strawberry and banana mash you have going on with delicious grain and pasta!  The WRONG response is to fling beakfuls of it all over the top of the cage in a desperate search for your beloved raspberries.  I assure you, I did not hide them in there.

You're now on a blog.  I hope you have fun here and everyone enjoys your antics and my frantic notes hoping you'll listen!

Love
The person that is scrubbing mash off the carpet