SongDragon
05-16-2007, 03:38 PM
I got home about five or six days ago (Friday of last week?) and haven't been alone for five minutes since. Neither has my sister since I picked her up on Saturday. It seems to melt all the stress away... honest... I just don't get as much sleep (or time to write) as I'm used to. My first night home, I'm not used to locking bathroom doors, so I was taking a shower. First the dog came in, all quiet, and just lay down on the outside. So I decided to leave her. Then, through the other door, came the cat, and lay down across from the dog. Mom just laughed, as now both doors were open and all the cold air was coming in, and reminded me, "You're not going to have any privacy with those two." So far, she has been right on. My cat (Dew) is a little more roly poly than when I left him as he has taken to eating the dogs food. (the dog)is as thin as ever, but has a few more gray hairs (she's only eight!). The bird (Sneezy) is noisy, but at first was rather reluctant to get out of her cage as she was rather grouchy with us.
Now we're training the bird (a gray cockatiel) to fly to us. We have been using unsalted roasted sunflower seeds (she is not a fan of salt). Unfortunately we would like to eat them, too, and she objects. But the training is going quite well, as already she is flying onto people's shoulders (rather than way up high as she used to, which is not fun for the people of this household, all of us averaging five feet) even without treats. There is one downside, we're now trying to add in commands, because otherwise she spent all morning flying from one to the other trying to take a snitch of our breakfast to try to get a reward! Hopefully I'll get to go up to New Hampshire soon, though there's always the problem with "what if" someone opens the door and either lets the bird fly out or the indoor cat out without a human (if there's a human around he'll stay in sight). The dog is probably the reason we still take the animals up to the lake. She loves to swim and that's probably the only chance she gets to do it on a daily basis!
Just thought I'd drop in and say: I'm not stressed anymore! Even though right after coming to Connecticut, while getting Caroline from Long Island, I got lost in Delaware (don't ask) and then the Bronx, New York, where I couldn't understand the directions they tried to give me. It was San Francisco (only scarier) all over again. I really need to get the hang of not getting lost for once...
~Song
Now we're training the bird (a gray cockatiel) to fly to us. We have been using unsalted roasted sunflower seeds (she is not a fan of salt). Unfortunately we would like to eat them, too, and she objects. But the training is going quite well, as already she is flying onto people's shoulders (rather than way up high as she used to, which is not fun for the people of this household, all of us averaging five feet) even without treats. There is one downside, we're now trying to add in commands, because otherwise she spent all morning flying from one to the other trying to take a snitch of our breakfast to try to get a reward! Hopefully I'll get to go up to New Hampshire soon, though there's always the problem with "what if" someone opens the door and either lets the bird fly out or the indoor cat out without a human (if there's a human around he'll stay in sight). The dog is probably the reason we still take the animals up to the lake. She loves to swim and that's probably the only chance she gets to do it on a daily basis!
Just thought I'd drop in and say: I'm not stressed anymore! Even though right after coming to Connecticut, while getting Caroline from Long Island, I got lost in Delaware (don't ask) and then the Bronx, New York, where I couldn't understand the directions they tried to give me. It was San Francisco (only scarier) all over again. I really need to get the hang of not getting lost for once...
~Song