by Wolf » Tue May 24, 2016 7:18 am
I have been trying to get some pictures and/ or a video of Mimi, but she is camera shy, so I may not get any useable pictures but she is not quite as afraid of the camera as when I started trying to get some pictures, but I expect it will still be a while on that.
She is hanging out on the perch that I mounted on her cage's door more and more during the day and is talking up a storm. She doesn't yet know the word music, but she does ask that I put on music by starting to whistle and then, when I turn on the music she whistles with the music for a while, while Kookooloo dances to it.
Instead of trekking around the outside of her cage screaming as before, she is now making 2 and sometimes three trips around her cage with very little screaming. Also if Kookooloo is with me and not in or on her cage, Mimi will cross over to Kookooloo's cage and explore her cage for a while before going back to her own.
She has started telling me to let the other birds out, but I am thinking that it may be due to her wanting to go over to Kookooloo's cage and she uses the same words but with a different inflection to tell me that the birds are out.
She will now take an almond from my hand, it kind of depends on whether my Lady is at home or not but that is also improving. She usually goes to the back of the cage when I change the food dishes, but has recently begun just climbing to the top of the cage and hanging down when I put her dinner in the food dish, just watching to see if there are any extra nuts on top of it when I am done and she usually grabs one nut and comes out on the door perch to eat that nut. It is sort of like her way of sharing dinner with us.
Mimi is funny as she forgets to hang on sometimes when she starts playing with a toy and the end result is that she makes an unexpected flight. This is nothing unusual for her, but she has started to fly over to where I am at to land and be rescued. Sometimes, I take her on a walk down the hallway or just around the room and other times I just pic her up and sit and talk with her until she decides that she has had enough and flies back to he gage. Her landings have improved a lot.
My Lady is the only one who can pet her although I had to ask her to keep the petting to Mimi's head and not her body as she was getting Mimi all aroused. While Mimi loves that her all time favorite think is to tickle my Lady's arm with her beak. She just can't get enough of it. She seems so amazed that she is allowed to touch someone at all. Since before she came here that was a huge no no.
Many of the things that she is just learning are now alright for her to do are things that she really should have learned when she was still a baby. Better late than never. Oh, it may have a lot to do with Kookooloo, but Mimi is spending a lot more time laughing at things. Kookooloo laughs a lot as well as dancing and singing.