Honeymoon's over...

[Mona]

Chris:

That sounds brilliant! You should post a photo.

Thx

Mona

[Becco Lunatico]

Senegals are very smart, very focused little critters. If you can find one thing for them to obsess over, they will be pretty happy with that.

I did find that 'one thing!' I made her a foraginesg box out of an empty (unscented) tissue box...filled it with crumpled balls of paper, wooden toy parts, foot toys, nuts, seeds and other treats and stuff, Akilah absolutely loves rummaging through it and picking out her favourites. I add something new every day. It's on top her cage, and now, after we've had our "together time", she will take her ladder highway back to the box and keep herself busy for long periods . If I present her with a 'fresh' box I don't hear a peep out of her for hours. I am thrilled to bits, and look forward to coming up with other foraging activities.

So great to 'watch' a parrot owner feeling their way around their companions!

[Jenny]

& we all get to learn from "watching" it, which is something I love about this forum.

[sherillynn]

As for foraging toys, I have found that is I get the paper bags with handles on them from shopping, I fill them with rolled up newspapers to shred. Hide some treats in them and hang them off the side of the cage, my Eclectus goes nuts. I also put strips of cotton fabric in and she throws them around and pulls them out of the bag. They only last about 3-4 hours but they are well worth the time it takes to make them up and hang.

Sherill