She's eating!

[zandperl]

I came home to find Kappa's beak covered in food. :-P Yay, she's eating. And not only is she eating, but she's eating with her feet - she picks up a piece in her beak, realizes it's too big, grabs it in a foot, and breaks off smaller pieces to eat. *Gwah!* ^_^

Comments

[cosmicwonder]

That's so wonderful! It looks like she's getting used to the place much faster than you thought!

[always_going]

That's good news :]!
I love it when you can watch birds realize things.... I cam remember Jomei's first experience with yogurt. What a debacle that was...

[l0stmyrel1g10n]

that sounds messy. [there are famous photos of my first childhood experience with yogurt.]

[framefolly]

Yay! Awwww....

[weirdlilfaechld]

Aw! As much as I love cockatiels that's something I miss with just the little guys.

Soon she will be comfortable enough to wipe her messy beak on your shirt!

[zandperl]

Gabe occasionally used a foot with things, such as holding a toy steady that she was working on, or holding a tippy bowl. It always made me giggle, which usually made her stop. :-P

Kappa's totally a monkey-bird. Maybe I should've gone with T$'s suggestion of Monkeybutt as a name. ;)

[weirdlilfaechld]

Autumn will sometimes eat with her feet, but only for a treat and only if she felt she needed to, like when someone tries to kick her out of a food dish or when handed food somewhere she can't put it down to nibble on. Then again, Autumn also loves fruit, so she can't be considered a typical cockatiel!

[hrafn]

Aw :) It was the eating with the feets thing that endeared me to Claude. It really never gets old.

[zandperl]

She's a monkey, I tell you! A monkey!

(And she's going to take over the world!)

[hrafn]

Not if you keep the tools locked up!

[zandperl]

Doesn't matter! I swear one of these days she's going to open her cage, walk over to my tool box, pick the lock, and take out a hammer. Or else she'll make her own!

More cuteness: While T$ was watching, she jumped onto a round rope swing, monkeyed around the top of it, and then hung upside down from the bottom for a bit.

More good news: She's used to getting her veggies in the morning, so this morning I did that, and she's totally chowing down on them! :) Now how do I convince her to eat them in the evening instead, when it's easier for me to prep them?