kily07 ([info]kily07) wrote in [info]parrot_lovers,
@ 2008-11-19 17:51:00
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Current mood: shocked

omg! dangerous!
lychee got his head stuck in this toy a few minutes ago!

dangerrrrr! 01

He thinks the toy is absolutely evil now.

i panicked when i saw him running around with the thing on his head, but... i have to admit it was a little funny... heh
hes so silly.


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[info]delennamachoo
2008-11-20 02:10 am UTC (link)
Gobbles loves those, but he tends to just throw them around the cage. I take them away if he starts getting far enough into them that he could wear one on his head. He's so crazy about them.

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[info]kily07
2008-11-20 04:35 am UTC (link)
Lychee used to just toss them around too but he recently discovered that he can chew through them.

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[info]delennamachoo
2008-11-20 01:33 pm UTC (link)
Gobbles chews a specific hole in each one (apparently, it provides a better grip). It might depend on the way the ball is made.....he has two kinds of balls. One he can't seem to break and the other that has a pattern that makes him want to remove a small circle out of the end of every one like them.

Everything seems dangerous anymore. A woman on the lovebird list lost a lovebird who had been ingesting string from its string toys. If I were religious, I would probably just chalk it up to God's will, but I'm a control freak instead :D.


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[info]kily07
2008-11-20 07:40 pm UTC (link)
omg how scary!!
i wonder what kind of string toy it was.

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[info]delennamachoo
2008-11-20 11:32 pm UTC (link)
Apparently, it can happen with any fine string toy. The females try to collect the strings and accidentally ingest them.

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[info]selasphorus
2008-11-20 02:24 am UTC (link)
Yeah, those thin plastic cat wiffle balls are dangerous that way--I've seen birds get feet caugh. My conure loves them, so I got him a toy made out of harder plastic with smaller holes. He isn't able to chew through it.

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[info]kily07
2008-11-20 04:36 am UTC (link)
I notice that he only gets through the cheap PetCo brand ones. He can't chew through the ones I got from the bird store.

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[info]delennamachoo
2008-11-20 11:29 pm UTC (link)
The ones designed for cats are usually too heavy duty for smaller birds (though I can't speak for PF lovebirds since Gobbles is smaller). That's what I've taken to buying Gobbles. He gets the bells out of them and puts them in his water :P.

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[info]gwai_lol
2008-11-20 03:22 am UTC (link)


mine looove those balls andget territorial over them!!

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[info]proserpia
2008-11-20 04:27 am UTC (link)
I'm not sure who is cuter, them or you!

that was adorable! "*squee sounds*oooh you run over teh ball!" I just almost died!!

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[info]gwai_lol
2008-11-20 04:29 am UTC (link)
They make me squee so hard

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[info]kily07
2008-11-20 04:38 am UTC (link)
Hahaha! Your video totally cracked me up!
Your lovies are so adorable!!

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[info]troubleagain
2008-11-20 03:39 pm UTC (link)
Oh, awesomeness! "Get teh ball!" SQUEEEE! They're very cute. Sunshine likes those balls, too, and she never chews, just tosses or head-butts them. :D

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[info]lonelypinkrose
2008-11-20 03:48 am UTC (link)
my parrotlet loves those toys... I get them flung at my head allll the time!

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[info]kily07
2008-11-20 04:38 am UTC (link)
ROFL.
Lychee flings them to the ground, but he has never flung them to my head LOL

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[info]lonelypinkrose
2008-11-20 04:56 am UTC (link)
it's my fault! It's what I get for putting Libby's cage right next to my bed. I get pelted with seeds, toys, shredded paper... the list goes on and on...

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[info]delennamachoo
2008-11-20 11:31 pm UTC (link)
That's what Gobbles does. He throws them against the side of the cage.

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[info]pinkdagger
2008-11-20 04:16 am UTC (link)
Aww, poor baby!

A long, long time ago, Tweety had one of those in her cage and while I was asleep, she broke it open and got the (metal) bell stuck on her upper mandible.

I know my birds love them, so I only let them play with them directly with me, which is basically a sort of fetch where they make me fetch all the jingle balls they toss on the floor.

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[info]kily07
2008-11-20 04:50 am UTC (link)
poor tweety!
i am gonna keep a close eye on lychee from now on when he plays with those toys!

i play the fetch game with lychee too. (or more like, lychee makes me play lol)

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