Good morning everyone ☀️ I'm up early with the parrots and have just finished the morning food prep and cage cleaning session. Ziggy is cuddled up in my hand and all is quiet bar the noise of the air filters and Toby munching away 😊 Peaceful now anyway, but in a couple of hours chaos will erupt as we try to get all three of them in their travel cages in good time for a trip to the V-E-T .

It's always a toss up when to start trying to get them sorted. Some days it can take a long time to persuade certain wee birds to go into their travel cages, and often it results in me just covering them up with a towel and bundling them in unceremoniously ☺️ Parrots are clever you see. They know full well that travel cages means V-E-T and even their crack cocaine dried papaya treats don't always work. We usually err on the side of caution and generally end up far too early, but it's better than arriving late in a panic.

Toby is no bother though. We have the wooden air crate he flew over from South Africa in and I just pop him into that and we strap it next in the front seat next to Grant while I sit in the back between the two girls' cages. Toby has a travel cage, but it's too big to fit in the car if we take all of them so his air crate works a treat. Also picking Toby up and popping him into his box is painless, unlike the scramble to catch the girls 😊

So, it's Big Adventure Day as we tell the parrots. Some Lidl bimbling later too.

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

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