My Little OCD Lovie

[starwynde]

I recently started transitioning Gem from his normal seed mix over to Avicakes and discovered something odd: Gem has OCD. I'm not sure why I never noticed it before, but it's the strangest thing.

Only my right hand can give him scritches... he has to sit in my left hand or no deal;

He only eats popcorn after it's been dunked in his water dish;

Millet is only eaten when placed in the hanger I have for it. Hang it anywhere else and he won't touch it (unless it's in my hand);

Nutriberries go in the small blue dish and the small white dish stays empty. I put the berries in the white dish and they end up all over the floor;

And now: Avicakes do not go in any dish and are to be eaten off the floor of the cage. Doesn't matter how much I break them up, they get tossed from his food dish immediately and consumed from wherever they land. No joke, less than 30 seconds after the dish is returned with the cakes in it, out they go.

Anyone else have a fid with quirky habits?

[Z28Taxman]

Ditto is like that too, only he likes to change it up. Sometimes he insists that one type of nutriberry belongs in the pellet dish and will carry them over there. If I put them back with the rest, he'll move them again. Other times if I put them in there (usually because he won't eat that type from the regular bowl) he'll either ignore it or take it back to where he feels it should be. Case in point, he was refusing to eat the el-paso berries so I put one in his pellet bowl and he ate it. Once that one was gone I put another in and it sat there for 2 weeks (he ate the pellets around it but ignored the berry). yesterday I put it back in his normal food dish and today it's gone! :rotfl:rotfl:rotfl

The only exception is my hand, whatever food I put in there will be devoured no questions asked.

His funniest quirk happens when he goes to the cage for a snack when he's out with me on the couch. He flys back to the cage and has to ring his bell. It doesn't matter if he pushed the bell all the way to the back of the cage, he will go back there and ring it. Once in a while he seems to forget to ring it and climbs halfway down to the food bowl, stops and looks like he forgot something and gets an "ah-ha" look on his face, climbs up and rings the bell. only then will he climb down to the food dish, grab a snack and bring it back to the couch.

And his morning routine is ridiculous...

Every morning after I uncover him he'll climb out the back of the happy hut onto his knotrageous toy, climb all over it checking it out to make sure it's ok. Then he'll climb to the back of the cage and up onto the top perch and make sure his bell is there. After he's satisfied that the bell is still there he goes to his triangle rop swing and checks the bell there.

After making sure the perches, toys and bells are all as the should be he hops to the food dish to make sure nobody stole his food (he doesn't eat yet just looks). Then he'll climb down to the water dish for a drink, back to the food dish, poop then eat! :rofl:

[thebubbleking]

Lol i guess since i let all my flock out at once they cant get to ocd in my house you snooze you loose! lol

[Mary in Florida]

Well,it seems like our Loki likes to make a rollup out of his veggies before he eats them. Our birds are out so I put their cut up veggies ( usually broccoli, carrot strips and snap peas) on a paper plate that's covered with a paper towel to absorb the moisture from the veggies after I wash them. So Loki goes over to the plate, rolls up the edges of the paper towel around whichever mound of veggies are closest to where he is working, and then proceeds to eat the veggies right through the paper towel. Most of the time he'll sit right on top of the "roll" he's made as he eats the veggies out from underneath the paper towels. His little friend Pixie is usually right behind him, and she helps him eat those veggies too.