Sweety. (Ongoing Picture Thread)

I’ve been keeping some of his little fluff feathers too 🥹🥹🥹

Here is a pic that stems from my other thread in bonding and taming where I talked about a new barrier I got in order to make a safe fly room for Sweety. This is an 8X10 magnetic screen door. It was meant for a garage door but it was perfect for me to be able to slice my little studio apartment into sections to keep him away from my kitchen and my front door. You can roll up either or both sides and it becomes totally out of your way. It comes in lots of other sizes too bigger and smaller.

i had a maintenance guy in here after I put this up and he asked hey not being nosey but what is this net for? And I said so my bird has a safe fly area on the other side of it. He said wow it really looks great and usually when people attempt something like this it doesn’t work out looking so good. I was worried about that too, I didn’t know if it would look like a drapery cheap mess or not but it’s very decent quality and doesn’t hang soft and cheap.

I posted this pic in another thread so decided to post it here too. This is my sweety in a pod tent. This was one way I could let him out of the cage safely before I had the above magnetic door installed. Also if your bird ever needed to travel or stay with someone else, this type of pod could really help in a hotel or other unfamiliar spaces your bird may have to stay. It folds down into a carry case about the size of a dart board but very lightweight. I can also fit in there with him if I’m willing to be down on the floor.

This is Sweety back when I was getting him used to his little travel cage when he was very young. I would bait him into it and then put him in front of lots of music and cartoons. He would get distracted by the music and shows and it’s so cute. Still, he might be motivated to go eat his treat some more. When this would happen I would change the song or distract him in some way to get him off the treat. Eventually if I cant override his desire for the treat I just take it out and see how long he hangs out in the environment without a treat.

In this video he has been baited into the travel cage by a giant endless treat but he quickly gets sucked into the Disney song. But since the song is be our guest and it’s all about eating all the treats, Sweety goes to the treat and gobbles a feast for himsel. I know how much millet he’s had recently (not much) so I let him feast for a minute. But I also know the ending will grab his attention again and draw him away from the treat. At about 3:00 he stops feasting and gets present with the music again. So cute!


After I got him to this stage and he loved going different places in the little travel cage he didn’t need to be baited so much. I‘m going to get an even smaller carry around carrier and try to get him into it. He might just love it. And mostly I want him ready to get into some kind of carrier to a vet emergency situation. Since he’s not hand tame I’ve got to get a system in place in other ways.