Reply With QuoteThats great that she loves to ride, its too bad she gets car sick when doing so but she doesn't let it spoil her fun, she is so adorable Maggie, thanks for sharing a couple more pics of her.
:P Tango (our newest 8 year old rescue Cockatoo) loves to go for a ride in the car. She gets SO excited when we tell her we are going "bye-bye". She will say "bye-bye" in her sweet little voice until we get her in the car. Then she won't shut up LOL...The only problem is, even if the journey is only 5 miles long, she will get car-sick and up-chucks on the way out and on the way back. It doesn't stop her though from loving to go out on car rides...:woohoo:
A little history: before Tango had fledged, the breeder had clipped her wings and for the last 6 of her 8 years, she was cage-bound. Her previous owners were afraid of her. They took excellent care of her though...
the reason they gave her to us was they knew she needed human contact. We are in the process of teaching her how to fly and hopefully she will be able to when her wings. She loves to be held and scritched now and on the first day we got her, Jay had her out on his arm. Her newest trick is to call for Jay when she is in her cage for the night. She then sticks out her foot and extends her talons. When Jay gets up to the cage, she grabs and holds his finger while he pets her with his other hand and she tells him "nite-nite". (Too cute lol)
<br><br>Post edited by: Spock, at: 2010/01/03 02:13
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Thats great that she loves to ride, its too bad she gets car sick when doing so but she doesn't let it spoil her fun, she is so adorable Maggie, thanks for sharing a couple more pics of her.
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Tango is lucky to have you and Jay, Maggie! Thanks for sharing some pictures of her with us. Luckily my fids like to ride in the car and neither gets sick. Ana Grey loves to jabber away!!!
~~~~~~~~~~ Ana Grey ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Louie ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Sterling Gris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lily ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It's so cute that even though Tango is sick on car rides that he still loves them. Poor little baby! Great pictures Maggie - Tango looks like a baby, not an 8 year old! He's gorgeous.
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Tango is such a sweet heart. I can not imagine why people were afraid of her and thus left her cage bound.
She is so lucky to have been given the opportunity to join your flock and thrive, as she already doing.
Karma to you. :-)
Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin. ~K.O. Eckland, "Footprints On Clouds"
Dayo in flight....
That's really nice. Sounds like you've got a real friend in Tango. Lucky Tango, too.
Sunshine, our YCA, has been on 4 long trips with us so far. During the first 3 trips he traveled in his vacation cage (see the photos in the amazon room)but it took up so much space. He was a little nervous at first but then he settled in when he saw that our daughter and our 2 cats (all sharing the back seat with him) were relaxed and enjoying themselves).
I got the pak-o-bird carrier for my birthday recently and used that in the car this time. He doesn't like it so much due to the space constraints but he was comfortable. On the way back yesterday evening, I let him out after about an hour on the road and he sat on my shoulder and on the head rest above my head for the next 2 hours. He loved being free in the car and was not stressed at all. He was preening himself and my hair, butting in on our conversations, but in the end I had to insist he go back in the carrier only because he was so sleepy and couldn't sleep where he was. He couldn't tuck in his one leg since he had to grasp the headrest with both feet. Next time I will try putting a window perch up to see how that goes.
It was his idea to stay out and since he was behaving I let him. The same thing happened with the cats when they were younger and thus they can travel with us for hours with no problem. They do not need to be caged since they are not afraid or anxious, but used to it and just sleep most of the time.
The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine.
— Plato, 'Phaedrus'
You know you can give her ginger root fresh grated for car sickness. I have a friend who told me about this and she had this problem with her grey. Since she tried this she does not have that problem anymore. Good luck hope it works beautiful bird.
To answer Dan's question, three days after the previous owners got Tango, she was holding her and Tango beaked her arm, she shook and Tango grabbed on with her beak and drew blood. She didn't know that our fids use their beaks to hold on and to climb and she and her husband were scared to death from that day on.
Over the years, they learned about body language and would scritch her through the cage bars. It was hard for them but they took great care of her. :unsure:
Maggie (Spock's in the other room:whistle
Live Long and Prosper.
"It is logical. The needs of the many outweigh... the needs of the few...or the one"
I seen this thread awhile ago, and today my Too got carsick too! She just started puking things up on the way back. It's nothing to be worried about right? That's what I'm getting out of it.
Christina if your too is otherwise ok, eating and playing normally then its nothing to be worried about, you just have a too that suffers from motion sickness.
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