For $5 I got an accidental piece of paleoart yesterday at a craft sale. I think the artist may have mixed up cockatiels and cockatoos, but no matter. He asked if he could draw me a dinosaur, I suggested a cocaktiel and got something in-between. I'm trying to imagine herds of six foot cockatiels wailing and screaming, hehe ( Read more... )

It's hard to believe that we have had Muffin for just over seven years! And it's even more unbelievable that it's easy to embed Instagrams easily in LJ :-) Here are some recent ones of His Majesty!

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Hi everybody! I need your advice please ^u ( Read more... )

Muffin's fecal gram stain came back completely normal last month. Whatever the problem is, it seems to have sorted itself out. I think he was feeling anxiety over us leaving plus my own anxiety about being a vendor at an event this past weekend. We also live across the street from a bus stop where school children get off. I happened to be home one ( Read more... )

We went to the vet yesterday and got there a little early. Muffin screamed the whole time in the waiting area. Our vet is an emergency vet as well, so there's exotics and other pets. I kept apologizing to the other people there ( Read more... )

Hi parrot lovers, I was wondering if anyone else had this problem with their bird. We will be going to the vet on Saturday.

We went away for Easter weekend and it seems to have stressed Muffin out like crazy. We have left the birds before for a weekend, but maybe something happened, maybe it's because it's spring...but since then, while we are off ( Read more... )

Muffin is in major nesting mode and Feisty is singing sparrow songs...it's spring ( Read more... )

Hello everyone ( Read more... )

Gideon's leg is all healed and he got his splint off today! He has lived in the normal cage for only a couple days, but some perch rearranging and practice and he is okay ( Read more... )

One of the reasons for my plant post yesterday was that if Muffin is going after the plants, he must be missing greens in his diet. Yet he's fussy about eating them - tossing them out of the food cup. I cut back the polka dot plant to make it less tempting ( Read more... )