Good morning Fellow Travellers around the Sun ☀️ I'm up early with the parrots again today and still sitting with Ziggy, who is currently refusing to go in for her breakfast 🥴 This is probably because yesterday, after she had eaten, she started to sneeze and have liquid running out of her nares again, so we spent some time doing steam sessions to clear her airways and help her breathe. She was fine after that, but she has obviously remembered and now doesn't want to go in to her cage, but wants to sit with me instead. At some point the hunger will win out, but for the moment my attention wins 🙂

We have another vet appointment in two weeks time for more blood tests and hopefully some idea of how best to handle these ongoing episodes. I know that birds with heart issues are exercise intolerant and flying can exacerbate her breathing problems, but trying to get Ziggy not to fly is impossible. Just this morning she has flown around the room (she grabbed my phone and somehow turned the torch on which freaked her out) and back and forth from her cage to me at least four times. She's a bird, they fly 🤷🏻‍♀️

She has now gone in for breakfast, and is singing while eating, "Toot, toot toot!" No wonder she sneezes after eating, she talks with her mouth full all the time 😁

She has this new thing in the morning where she now acts like a gaffer while I'm cleaning their cages. She come down to the bottom of the cage, watches what I am doing and says "Uh huh!" a few times while walking back and forth, as though judging my work. When I spray the tray with disinfectant she helpfully says "Water!",and when I put new paper down yells "Paper!" just in case I wasn't paying attention 😂

Little bird. Huge personality ❣️

Plans for today are some Parrot Kitchen this morning and then crochet as I continue to work on the double order I'm busy with.

Have a very lovely day, whatever you get up to 🤗

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