It's been a crazy few weeks. My job has been pretty challenging and exhausting and we had to put my mom's dog down a few days ago which disrupted the flow of things for a while both before and afterwards. Things are getting back to normal ( Read more... )

By yesterday evening Coconut hadn't picked her ingrown feather out so I sterilized some tweezers and a dull tapestry needle after I went out and bought a bunch of first aid stuff I thought we might possibly need just in case (styptic swabs, peroxide, alcohol, neosporin etc.) In the end it was super easy to get out with tweezers, I just lifted ( Read more... )

Coconut has an ingrown feather on her chest. It must have developed there very quickly because I did not notice it yesterday. At first I thought it was her keel bone exposed through the skin and panicked. Thankfully it's not her keel bone, it's up and to the side of the center of her chest, over her previous wound site. Part of it is exposed so I ( Read more... )

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Last night Coconut decided she was going to scream all night again. I'm STILL sick and G is starting to get sick, so neither of us were in the mood. Putting the light and the TV on helped for a little while but eventually I got my pillow and blanket and went to sleep in her room. She wasn't happy until she was perched on her gym, next to my head, ( Read more... )

I feel like it's been a while since my last post. I've been sick this past week so not a lot has occurred. Coconut is still wearing her collar, G figured out a way to keep her from chewing through her soft collar: We measured her hard color and made the soft collar to the exact same measurements. I also realized how she was managing to chew out of ( Read more... )

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Coconut's new cage is being delivered tonight by my mom's paramor (yes, my mom has a paramor! She'd probably cringe if I called him that though ( Read more... )

I found a new cage for Coconut for $50 at one of the local pet stores. It's actually used and fairly old but it's in good shape. The bar spacing is a little wider than I would normally buy but they said they have boarded Goffins in it before and another customer there was going to purchase it's twin for his rose-breasted cockatoo. It's a few inches ( Read more... )

Coconut was up at 2am screaming again ( Read more... )