August 3, 2010 – 11:50 am
Today’s Tuesdays with Ty will have to be in the form of a photograph. More writing next week. (Hopefully. Because some of you are reading, yes?)
In honor of Ty’s sweet sixteen last week…
Note the gray-tinged feathers in the center, baby feathers.
Bless!! I love these feathered Kiwi ruffians. Go Keas!!
I get asked a lot about how to tell if your parrots are plucking. Honestly, the most common time of the year I hear this is during the molt and it’s a fair question. Sometimes it seems the feathers come out all at once.
Dropping feathers is very normal and they can drop suddenly and in [...]
If you love this photo as much as I do, click on it and go give the photog some love!
February 28, 2010 – 5:47 am
Truth is that as convenient as Petsmart and Petco are, they don’t carry all of the things that bird lovers need. Besides supporting small business, there are a lot of good reasons to support your local bird supply store if there is one in your area. Sure you can order lots of things for your [...]
February 24, 2010 – 6:21 pm
Avoiding Parrot Relinquishment and Improving Foster Situations through Applied Behavioral Analysis
February 14, 2010 – 11:02 am
Everyone relishes a great love story, especially on Valentine’s Day. And sometimes, well, St. Valentine is for the birds!
Take this story for example from the Edmonton Journal.
A retiring undertaker told a story of an 84-year-old widow who did not want to be buried in a joint plot with her husband, Rather, she wanted to be [...]
February 9, 2010 – 8:50 am
Wishing you had the time for an African grey, but you don’t? Why not enjoy the company of a grey on your computer screen.
Check in on Bibi on her channel on Ustream. Her bio:
Bibi is a 3-year-old (ed. although I just heard her say “I’m four years old”) African Grey Parrot that speaks 20 languages, [...]
September 14, 2009 – 7:40 pm
Hey you parrot peeps in the St Paul/Minneapolis area, I’m heading out your way this week!
Come visit me at The Bookcase in Wayzata on Friday September 18th at 7PM. I’ll be signing and reading my new memoir LIFT.
I’ll be doing parrot training workshop at the Parrot Adoption Education Program on in the morning Saturday September [...]
Bruce the terrier tried to bite off more than he could chew, racing up a tree after a squirrel and finding himself 50 feet up with no easy way down according to the Daily Mail in the UK.
The poor pooch was so precariously perched that the only solution was call a tree surgeon with the [...]
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