Parrot Sitting

I don't know why I didn't type about this before but over the summer I was parrot sitting for two Quaker parrots for about a week. It was a lot of work but it was fun watching Kiki interact with the two other Quakers Sammy and Lola. Sammy was an aggressive five year old male Quaker with his flight feathers intact. Lola was a shy two or one year old female Quaker. Kiki acted like herself friendly and baby like. So it really was interesting watching three different Quakers interact. The only thing is I don't have any pictures or videos of there stay.

The tough parts of the job were cleaning three cages, changing food and water, and trying to keep the noise level down so my dad wouldn't go insane. Sammy's cage was the most difficult to clean since he was very territorial about it but I managed and even changing his food and water was difficult since I had to work swiftly in order to avoid a bite or be chased. Sammy behaved well away from the cage and allowed me to pet him. Though I wore gloves when handling him because I've seen what he's capable of. Lola was pretty easy to take care of compared to Sammy and of course I still gave Kiki plenty of attention.

The funniest and possibly most serious incident happened around the bathing dish. Lola was taking a bath and took her sweet time doing so. Sammy eventually grew impatient and flew into the dish and started to bathe himself and scared Lola off. Kiki also decided to bathe after they had. What I found strange was Lola's bathing habits she took the longest bath compared to Sammy and Kiki. I wish I video taped that while I still had my camera.