I think this morning has been the most frustrated and honestly angry I have ever been with our bird. I know I just need to calm down about it but I guess I’ll vent here. I don’t work and our alexandrine is almost always with me. He is EXTREMELY flighted and very agile but that’s okay as if I’m paying attention to him he usually doesn't get in too much trouble. I’ve known him to make a mess for attention but not throw fits before.
Nearly every morning I get him up with me and then when I shower he sits on a perch in there and he sings and gets attention and showers are one of his favorite things, this morning I was meeting a girlfriend from college and needed to move fast so I left him on his stand when I went to shower.
He really did not like that I left him out. So he managed to fly into the bathroom (through an impossibly small door crack) and then he took my makeup compacts and dropped them into the shower. Right now I’m pretty sure it was genuinely in malice. Our house is pretty bird proof, there is nothing he can really tare EXCEPT my make up. He is always in the bathroom watching me put it on but it’s one thing I don’t let him touch or explore. So he is dumping my makeup into a running shower, flying tight circles around the tiny room. He ruined at least 300$ with of the luxury’s I have because they make me happy.
I think I’m just frustrated with him and mad that I let anything in my life make me cry over makeup. Maybe I’ll get a feather or two taken off each wing today. I’ve never felt like I couldn’t control him before today but if my life had depended on it I don’t think I could have gotten him to stop. It went on realistically for at least 8 minutes it felt like an hour. I was just desperately chasing\ trying to calm him/ trying to bribe him. Maybe in a few hours I will feel differently about it. I usually have the makeup bag in the cabinet so he can’t get it, it’s been a forbidden prize in the past.i guess I’m too attached to my pretty high end makeup and he is more important but I’m actually so upset.
He is never used to being alone or ignored, maybe that’s part of the problem. It’s all replaceable in the end. I’ve always had flighted birds but he is without comparison the most agile. He banks and can practically hover. He doesn’t do anything he doesn’t want to, before this all he has ever done with that skill is steal measuring cups and make me play fetch. Maybe a very light clip would help with an attitude adjustment, I still want him flighted but maybe it would help.