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Puddings & Toyboys
A blog about my beautiful budgies.
Category Archives: chair
Remembering Raspy: One year on
23 November 2012
Posted by on This day, last year, was a very, very sad day indeed. Our Raspy left us. At the time it felt far too soon for her to go & 12 months later it still feels that she was with us for too short a time.
She is often in my thoughts. Recently I have been remembering how, when I sat on the (popular) poang chair, she used to spend ages chewing my sleeve, my jumper, my trouser leg, or the chair itself. Many times I would sit for longer than I intended as I did not want to distract her from her obviously very important mission. 🙂
How I miss that girl.
Orange patch
30 June 2012
Posted by on A few days ago, I noticed a strange orange-coloured patch on Atilla’s lump. It did not look right so I dropped an email to Mr Avian Vet, with a photo, asking if it was something I should be concerned about. Here was his response:
This is a localised area of infection – possibly because she has scratched or rubbed the surface. Initially I would treat it with some antiseptic cream such as Savlon, E45 or similar.
So, not only does she have a horrible hernia/lump, there is now an area of infection on it. 😦 I already had a tube of Savlon so I have been applying this twice a day. It has been a relatively easy task as Atilla still likes going inside the tea towel at the back of the chair & her lump is very conveniently positioned for me to gently smear some cream on. So far, the orange patch seems contained. Atilla is still fine in herself & does not appear troubled by the infection.
- Orange patch lump
- Curling round to preen lump
Tea Towel Tunnel
17 March 2012
Posted by on Atilla’s outside-Manor time is exclusively spent at the Poang Chairground Resort. Although she is very busy, I felt it was time to introduce another Chair Challenge to keep her mentally as well as physically active. This new “ride” has taken the shape of The Tea Towel Tunnel.
Basically, I pegged (another) tea towel up in loops at the back of the chair so she could enter it from the ladder & exit at various points either upwards to the top of the chair or to the far end, the side of the chair.
It did not take her long to investigate, in fact it was a matter of minutes! Since then, it has been a firm favourite as you can see by these videos:
Once she emerges, she usually immediately returns to the ladder to go through the tunnel again, however in this video you will see that she decides to go back in the way she came out…. she has such a creative mind!