Jethro likes vitamin water…
So, I guess there is some lawsuit about vitamin water and how they lie about it’s nutritional facts, but I like it and it’s got to be better than coke. Tonight, after tennis, I was hanging out and I decided to put Jethro on the couch. I have been reading some information on birds and acting out and screaming and they all suggest that birds will act out when they are bored (and when they are not fed a healthy diet). One way to keep a bird from getting bored is to introduce new toys on a regular basis. So, when I put Jethro on the couch, I decided to try to find some possible toys for him to play with. Now, my cousins told me that Jethro is a little nervous around new things, so sometimes it takes like a week for him to be okay with something new, like a toy.
My first attempted toy was a stuffed animal that is a hotdog dog. Well, that totally freaked out Jethro. So after a few minutes of him wanting nothing to do with the hotdog dog, I put it on the floor. I then went and got a little teddy bear and graduation barbi (that’s a whole nother story!). I put those two on the couch, and Jethro wanted nothing to do with them either.
So, after I removed those two items, Jethro went right after the remote control and tried to pick it up and play with it. I started to think that maybe Jethro doesn’t like soft and furry animals, but maybe he likes plastics and bottles…which is when I introduced the vitamin water bottle, and man did he love that! The only thing I think he liked more was 2 vitamin water bottles!!
After about a half hour of play, I decided it was time to get him back into his cage and maybe calm him down for bed, but he did not want anything to do with my plan. He wouldn’t step up. So I let him hang out. I took the bottles away, but he was still kinda wired. It took about 20 minutes but then he got up and I walked him back to his cage - and placed a vitamin water bottle in it - and man did he have fun. He totally ripped the label off - that took about a half hour. Then he just tried to penetrate it somehow. A few times he got it airborn and threw it a little ways across the cage.
The excitement lasted about another half hour to hour when Jethro moved on to a little dinner and then playing with his bell. Then after a dip of water, he’s back at the vitamin water - nope, he’s taking a little snack. A bird with priorities!!
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March 18th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Umm… does Jethro chirp all day? He’s awfully cute.
March 18th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
He can be pretty “active” all day. It kinda depends. I worked from home yesterday and there are times that he likes to be placed in either the bathroom or bedroom - away from all the action.
Last weekend he was in rare form and would not quiet down no matter what I did.
He’s awfully cute, really!