What a character Cosmo is!!! He is fantastic and is so funny. Cosmo picks up new words very quickly from both me and Hughie but also from Billy and Echo too. He loves to make a farting sound so every time he does it we say “stinky bum” to him. Within a few days he was making the sound followed by “cheeky bum” ha ha! It took him a few days but now he says stinky bum although sometimes he likes to mix and match lol.
He loves to whistle the tune to pop goes the weasel but I don’t think Billy likes it - he keeps shouting “QUIET!” at him. But Cosmo is quick with his response of “up yours”. Nice!!
Cosmo is still very much more for Hughie and Hughie can do pretty much anything with him. So we got a harness to try and here is the result – 1st day we got it
As you can see he took to it really well so we are building up the length of time he has it on so he can eventually get out with it.
We also finally found a new cage for Cosmo as his original one wasn’t the greatest. He’s been moved in a week and settled in straight away. Here he is on the day he moved in eating his tea. We did want something a bit bigger bit this is much better for now.
As you can see Cosmo is really beginning to explore everything around him and the other 2 are getting used to him being here. He is also getting better with me and if Hughie’s not around he will come to me for a wee head scratch. He loves his food and clears his bowl at tea time every night but he was trying to feed some of it to Hughie the other night. From the look on his face I don’t think Hughie was too impressed lol.
I’m sure there’s going to be many more tales to tell with the terrible trio :)
Wow!! Thats amazing that you got Cosmo to wear the harness so quickly.!!
Do you mind me asking what training method you used? Was it clicker training and offering a treat each time she touched it then slide it on her slowly? Sorry, I know I’m nosey, but I’d love to know becasue I would love to train my bird, when I have one.
Jennifer X
Hi Jennifer
We are just lucky that Cosmo will let Hughie do anything with him and so he was able to put it straight on him. He did practice with an old feather tether harness first.
The forum will give you lots of help on how to get a harness on and the harness comes with instructions and a dvd.
Hope that helps
Nikki xx