Pet Forum / Birds / Birds / December 2003

That is why we love them, they are intelligent creatures, that we share
our life with.

Yes, it is very fun. :-)

I just bought Freya a set of brightly colored belt clip keychain rings
and hooked them all together in a big chain...

It's going to be interesting to see how long it takes her to figure out
how to get them apart! <G> She's trying pretty hard right now.

Her greatest joy in life seems to be dropping all her toys on the floor
so that I have to pick them up! ;-D

K.

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One of Jester's fave toys (and cheapest) is a set of plastic
shower curtain rings. I hang them on the bars of his cage, as a
chain or separately, and he picks them off. I also bought some
wooden toy components, the sort of stuff that is threaded onto
leather strips and sold for huge amounts of money as "bird toys"
and I'll stick these on shower curtain rings to hang them. Again,
he has hours of fun picking at them.

Baby toys sound promising. Especially the more durable things. If
it can stand up to a teething baby, it's probably going to be
beakproof ... as much as anything can be considered beakproof
where cockatoos are concerned.

This is very clever. Jesse is good at taking things apart, but
much less interested in putting them back.

You're right about the problem-solving abilities, though. Jesse
figured out how to open his cage door when he was only a few
months old, he flew into the atrium of the shopping mall where
his pet store was located. All the employees called him "James
Bond" because he could get out of anything.

Having such a bright animal for a pet is challenging, but also
far more rewarding than any other animal I've loved (and I've had
quite a few).

Keep those Glacie stories coming! Does "Glacie" stand for
anything in particular? (Jesse is "Jester" because he's such a
clown.)

Tara J. Ballance
Montreal, Canada

Basil, my TAG, loves his baby rings (though I don't think he's ever put them
back where he found them!).  What kind of bird is Glacie?  If she's big
enough she might also enjoy musical baby toys.  Vtech has a nice line of
durable baby toys.  Basil has had his telephone for a few years and still
loves it.  It's the first thing he plays with every morning.  it might take
Glacie awhile to get the hang of pushing the buttons but I think she'll
really like the "instant gratification" of making noise!

Cyb

Hi All:

Just wanted to share Glacie's newest trick with you.  I bought her some baby
toy plastic rings.  She's had hours and hours of fun with them.  I put
several of them together on one ring and put the ring around one of the
branches of her tree.  It's taken her over a week to figure out how to get
the ring off the branch.  She finally got it last night.  But the best part
is that after she got it off and played with it for a while, she put it BACK
on the branch.  She worked and worked but finally got it.  I must say, that
was after I picked it up off the floor for her a few times.  I can't believe
birds have such problem solving skills.  It's amazing.

Thanks for reading.

Toni