how do you spend your day with your lovebird?

[gigi]

i was just curious about the daily routine of you and your lovebirds. i am a student and sometimes i wonder if im spending enough time with her (i have five weeks off now for christmas break and i intend to teach her some commands as she is a very bad birdy sometimes). ill start:

on days i have school, she usually wakes me or my boys (my two budgies) and i let her out of her cage to run around my bedroom - she has some secret business under my bed that she tends to daily.

shell be out for about an hour then i go to school for eight hours.

when i come home, i take her out and shes at my side all day. she sits on my shoulder or in my shirt and walks about the kitchen with me. shes very curious so i get nervous sometimes but shes used to the area by now and doesnt venture where she might get hurt - there actually arent too many places for her to get hurt or anything.

when i dont have school, i let her out as soon as i wake up and she runs around on my bed as i look on the computer or do whatever. she spends the majority of her time outside of her cage and i leave it open and she goes in there when she wants food or to get one of her little balls. she has a bell in there that she rings for attention too. occasionally, shell snuggle up on my arm for a nap.

i at first was attempting to have complete control over where she went, etc. but i like that she has a lot of independence. i feel like weve developed a very mutually pleasing relationship. we know eachothers limits very well.

i guess im spending enough time with her because she very healthy and very active! plus her feathers are just gorgeous and she never ever plucks.

[Mummieeva]

Drac does not come out still. He is getting closer but still scared of me. Twice a day for 1-2 hours I open his cage door and let him have a chance though. I am a full time mom so I am home and call/talk to him often. With my past birds they were out as often as possible.




Steph

[Sweetpeaches]

wish peaches could be out of her cage more than she is. but i work full time 5 days a week and now i have another fid (bailey) and i can't let them out at the same time so they take turns. in the morning they both are let out of their cages for about 10 - 15 mins ea. then after work i take them out 1/2 hour ea. until they go to bed. on the weekends they're out off and on all day when i'm home. one thing for certain, they'd rather be "out" of their cages than "in" them. and right now they both love being on me! that may change as they get older? peaches is a year old and bailey is 6 mos.

[michael]

I get home about 5 AM and Goofy wakes up about 7 AM and is out for at least an hour or more before I leave for business/errands. Usually I'll get back around 2 PM in the afternoon and he comes out again. Our computers are running day in and day out so he's right on top of one if he wants personal attention. Most of the time he's out until 8 PM bedtime and will often retire on his own or he'll let me know he's tired by running to my knee and back again until I take him to his cage. 60 percent of the time he spends out is on my shoulder or in one of my hands. In the last couple years we've bird proofed the whole house which means he has total run of it. I do a lot of walking around the house every day and he loves to play along the way. Goofy does understand not to go upstairs or in the basement unless accompanied by me or my wife but if he has to go back in his cage will promptly hightail it upstairs, above the kitchen cupboards, or in the coat rack to hide. When he gets really desperate he's been known to hide under the blanket upstairs. Good thing we know all his hiding places. Most of which were found by him leaving certain evidence behind :)............Michael and Goofy

[Buy A Paper Doll]

Birds get up around 7, and they ride around on my shoulder while I straighten up the house a bit. Then they play on the counter together while I get their food and drinks ready for the day. Sometimes they help me "preen" by climbing all over the bathroom counter while I put on makeup.

Then they go in their cage. Whoever gets home from work first (hubby or me) lets them out.

From there, they come out for 15-30 minutes at a time, and I put them back in their cage for a drink and a snack. Repeat until bedtime at 7:30-8pm.

[butterfly1061]

I get up at 6 am, feed cat, close door to bedroom. Open kitchen cabinet door, turn off ceiling fan - THEN get birds out - Molly & Piper first (take to kitchen). Go get Daise & Olivia (who's screaming to be let out!) and hope both babies (Harry & Potter) will come out together too. Now, everybirdy is in the kitchen flying and playing while mommy gets dishes and fills with seed on one side and dehydrated veggies on the other. Get treat dish and fill with 1-2 tablespoons of Snack Attack. Fill water dishes and hope no birdie wants a bath before getting it to the cage. While all of this is going on, birdies are all over me fighting over who gets to sit and stay on mommy. Then everybirdie has to come see what's to eat for the day (mommy has already filled dishes). Sometimes we get to play on the top rack of the dishwasher. Oh, and we have another kitchen cabinet we get to play in if nobirdie can share the first one :rolleyes: Then all dishes go to the cages, radio comes on and I spend the next 15 minutes trying to get everybirdie back into their cage - whew! After, I vaccum the seed in/on the kitchen floor, cabinet & counter and go get my shower. And the girls at work want to know why I'm tired cause I don't have kids :eek:

Once I'm back home from work (5:30), I let them out for about 1 - 1 1/2 hours to fly and play on me while I watch the news. They have water & food in the cabinets they play in. I also clean their dishes from the day and sometimes birdies take a bath while the water is running or I get their bathing plate. Then it's off the bed by 7 pm.

[beckyg]

I too wish Luna could spend more time out of her cage:( . I wake her around 8am Monday-Friday and take her from her night cage over to her day cage in front of the window so she can watch what is going on outside. I leave the radio on during the day so she doesn't feel alone. I would wake her earlier, but she is a velcro birdie and I can't get ready for work with her on my shoulder. I get home around 4:45 and open her cage. She then climbs up to the top of the cage and over onto the window seal where she chirps and sings to whoever and whatever is outside. She does that for a couple of hours on and off until she comes to the edge of her cage and flaps her wings for me to come and get her. It is then time for a snack, some playtime and a nap to end the day.

[thebubbleking]

Wake up to boo and sunshine giveing me the eye at 8am from thier penthouse, If i sleep past 8am they fly to the bed to nibble my ear till i wake.
They explore while i get ready for work usualy me running back and forth from the bathroom yelling "i said stay off the curtain!"
They go into the lower cage at 850 am and i head to work.

230 pm i take my hour lunch and they come out to shred paper eat snacks and basicly hang with dad during lunch. (god forbid i am late for lunch or comeing home i swear they have hidden watches because if i am more then 3 minutes late they start thier loudest where is dad chirps, i can hear them before the elevator door opens for my floor lol )

5pm i am home and they get free run.

9pm lights go off and they settle into thier penhouse box with the usual squacking and toebiteing and are asleep by 915 pm

Thats the basic routine except for my days off then they get free run from 8am till 900pm