Li'l update...
J likes the new cockatoo, but wanted to rename him Tristan. So Tristan it is!
Took Tristan and Athie to the vet yesterday. Athie got a DNA gender test, so we'll know for sure her sex in a few days! LOL--when the vet toweled Ath, she said, "NO!" Then she clucked and grumbled... When she got home she destroyed my keyboard, and generally hates me at the moment.
Tristan seems to be settling in decently. I'm confused about his behavior--whether it's nervous zooming for his old pen/mirror friend, or whether he's just exploratory. Not a cuddler, that one, he just hops off of me and zooms all around everywhere. At the vet's, he was all over the lobby. Nobody else was in it, so he just wandered here and there, looking at everything, hopping and skipping to the next spot.
The vet said he's a very laid-back and healthy cockatoo. Surprising, given his pet store background, but she said he doesn't seem phobic or neurotic at all, calm as anything while she toweled him. She did a yeast culture, etc., everything is healthy. I had him tested for Psitticosis (or wahtever it's called) just in case. The test results will be in next week, but she thought he was very healthy in general, so that's good. He doesn't ever shake anymore... I'm so glad about that. J said, "Of course he's happy! He's in heaven now! No more stupid customers or loud dogs!"
Took Tristan and Athie to the vet yesterday. Athie got a DNA gender test, so we'll know for sure her sex in a few days! LOL--when the vet toweled Ath, she said, "NO!" Then she clucked and grumbled... When she got home she destroyed my keyboard, and generally hates me at the moment.
Tristan seems to be settling in decently. I'm confused about his behavior--whether it's nervous zooming for his old pen/mirror friend, or whether he's just exploratory. Not a cuddler, that one, he just hops off of me and zooms all around everywhere. At the vet's, he was all over the lobby. Nobody else was in it, so he just wandered here and there, looking at everything, hopping and skipping to the next spot.
The vet said he's a very laid-back and healthy cockatoo. Surprising, given his pet store background, but she said he doesn't seem phobic or neurotic at all, calm as anything while she toweled him. She did a yeast culture, etc., everything is healthy. I had him tested for Psitticosis (or wahtever it's called) just in case. The test results will be in next week, but she thought he was very healthy in general, so that's good. He doesn't ever shake anymore... I'm so glad about that. J said, "Of course he's happy! He's in heaven now! No more stupid customers or loud dogs!"