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Puddings & Toyboys
A blog about my beautiful budgies.
Tag Archives: peg
Triangle platform
3 May 2018
Posted by on Around the time of retiring the Manor & introducing the New Villa, I came across a triangle shaped piece of cage in a charity shop. It looks like it was a triangle shaped door but I pictured it as a landing platform.
When it came to the new living arrangements with the two Villas, I set it up to use on the New Villa, resting on top of the main door when open. It is pegged along one side to the part of the Villa that the door closes against. The other side rests along the open door, with a tie to keep it in place.
It has proved to be a popular platform, particularly with Dalai who appears to have commandeered it. From what I can see, a password is needed before anyone else can go on it. No password? Then you get beaked off!
- Triangle platform set up
- Lennie (inside) & Perry
- Perry allowed on triangle platform on his own!
- Dalai preening Perry
- Dalai preening
- Dalai
- Perry, Lennie, Dalai, Bezukhov
- Bezukhov, Dalai, Perry, Lennie
Perry’s Pleasurable Places
31 August 2017
Posted by on Following on from my post on Lennie’s pleasurable places, I will attempt to balance things out by reporting on Perry’s pleasurable places. Perry has not been anywhere near as prolific as Lennie in the wiggle/jiggle department, but has indulged nevertheless. His first foray into this habit was with the red mirror.
28th February 2017 – The red mirror.
However, Perry’s current preferred pleasurable place is the green peg (below).
26th June 2017 – The green peg.
I choose to believe this behaviour is completely normal. 🙂
A pretend peg
13 March 2014
Posted by on A favourite perch is the wooden peg. For some time now, years in fact, a peg has been positioned on the inside of the Manor landing platform. Sitting on it affords good views across the room. Its most attractive feature is most probably that there is only space for one bird to sit on it at a time. It has been used by all: Atilla, Raspy, Cagney, Bezukhov, Phineas & Thomas.
- Thomas sitting on the inside peg
- Bezukhov sitting on the peg (during Atilla days)
There is one disadvantage of this peg. To me, that is. When the landing platform is lowered, the peg has to be removed as it is redundant & just flops there, taking up space. During recent turbulent times when the landing platform was raised & lowered many times an hour, it occurred to me there must be a more efficient way to deal with this that could satisfy both myself & the toyboys (current Manor occupants).
Enter The Natural Bird Product Company (http://www.naturalbirdco.co.uk/)
When I broached them about this dilemma, they agreed to make a smaller version of one of their existing designs. And here it is!
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This new dinky T-shaped perch mimics the qualities of the peg inside the manor but when the landing platform is lowered, turns into a useful perch. Of course there has been some avoidance of this new perch by Cagney & Bezukhov, but I can say now, a few weeks after its introduction, that it has been accepted, & here is the evidence:
- Bezukhov sitting facing outwards
- Cagney sitting sideways
- Bezukhov sitting on lowered perch
- Bezukhov comfortably dozing on one foot on new dinky perch
(Click on photos to enlarge)
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Perch of preference
11 October 2012
Posted by on Bezukhov has a favourite perch. He often sits on it when they have their outside-Manor time.
Is it on the custom-made play gym? No.
Is it the fancy-shaped natural wooden perch curling up from the top of the Manor? No.
Is it the rope perch trailing round the side of the manor? No.
It’s the teething ring. Yes. A simple baby teething ring is his favourite perch.
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Cagney is partial to the wooden peg too. Why do they prefer the cheapest perches?!
Mirror under the Manor
21 May 2012
Posted by on Atilla can be an independent girl when she wants to be. She likes to keep tabs on the mirror under the Manor & often requests the HNS to ferry her there & back. However, shockingly, I am not always available to attend to her every whim, so I rigged up a perch & peg system connecting the manor door to the stairway, giving her a pathway to the mirror.
It did not take long for her to make use of it….