I Am Thinking If Boo-Boo Wants To Go With Me, Then It Would Be A Good Idea To Get This For Him….

@Applepiedom Nope, he will be fine as long as I am with him. He’s seemed to have developed abandonment issues since I got sick last year. I was staying in my room all day a few days in a row and one day needed to do laundry and make something to eat. He started complaining “Take care of me” and “Will you take care of me”. He had food, water, his cage had been cleaned by the boy the night before so he didn’t really need things done. He just wanted me to be near him and talk and interact with him. I usually sit a couple feet from his cage in my recliner chair. I was putting the last load of laundry in the dryer and heard him say “Nobody cares about me” in a sad voice. So the next day I sat in my recliner chair when I was doing nothing else and he cheered up a lot and was chirpy etc.

@cherokeepatti is he a biggie or a parrot?

@Applepiedom a parakeet

@cherokeepatti

Been an avid birdwatcher since I was a kid in a bird watching club. There's a wetland preserve a couple of blocks down that I bicycle through now and then, and see a variety of domestic and migratory birds go through my yard. Saw a beautiful adult male cardinal with a prominent crown just few feet from my porch watching me back. Mexican hummingbirds should be around soon looking for the sweet stuff as well. Hawks and buzzards circle high and scope out the large bushy inlet nearby each afternoon looking for you know what. That's a signal to the seagulls and crows to clear out.

Do you ever let Boo-Boo out into the room just to get out?

@PatKirby Not often, he will fly into things and I am afraid he will go down behind the refrigerator and I will hurt or kill him if I move it. He seems happy to stay in his cage. I wish I had a small aviary to let them stay out and fly around all the time. I will put them all in the sun room when the weather is good and it’s not too hot or cold, windows can open on 3 sides and they can hear the wild birds sing etc. They really love that.

@cherokeepatti

Cool. Yeah birds got feelings too, you can hear it in their song.

@PatKirby So many tones of voices with this bird. I had said I was going to make simple lunch with a can of chicken instead of more food this time to bring to treatment (I have to have gluten free so won’t get restaurant food). Anyway Boo-Boo heard that conversation. About 3 hours later I went into the kitchen and opened up the chicken and started making the salad… Boo-Boo watched me and said “I will miss you” in a quiet sad voice. I told him I would be gone all day but would come back home. And that I would play music for them while I was gone. Left the radio on the Oldies station. Boo-Boo has never said that before.

@cherokeepatti

Interesting. Very curious creatures aren't they? Sometimes I wonder if they actually understand on some basic level because of the way they respond to us. Here's some ducks the city released in a neighborhood nearby. Nobody bothers them.

@PatKirby I believe they do understand. A lot of what they say is relevant, some of it is just chattering to entertain themselves though.

@Applepiedom I think he has an abandonment issue. He told me night before last he would miss me after I told him earlier I would be gone all day the next day and heard me talking about what I would make to bring with me for lunch. He saw me open the can of chicken and start make chicken salad when he said “I will miss you.”