I didn't get eaten by my dog
Jun. 21st, 2022 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thagirionHey guys. So sorry I have not been commenting. I am still here. My "stupid" dog takes up more time than I would have liked. She's actually doing a bit better. I found the channel Beckman's Dog Training and it's been helping. But I learned that you can't really start training a puppy til it's around 9 months old. Their brains aren't developed enough to understand and retain things. The hardest thing has been loose leash walking, stay not biting the leash and treating it like a tug toy. I so hate it when she grabs the leash when we're walking and starts yanking back on in. I force her into a sit to get her mind on something else. Can't wait til she's old enough for formal training. I've been ready for that from day one.
Some of you may know that I've also been taking care of a baby cardinal that's a total disaster in and of himself. I call it a "he" until I know for sure what it is once it molts. I named him Binky as it's a name that works for either sex. It was the name of the bird in the old anime Heidi cartoon from the 80s. And in a way another Megamind reference since that was his little power source thing his dad gave him. "Here is your Binky and here is your Minion." Funny I have a Binky and a Minion now. So Binky left the nest way too soon. He was headed for the yard full of cats and dogs. My yard has Olive which I don't trust around birds yet. There were no safe branches to put the baby on and I knew he'd be a gonner come morning. So I took him in. It's like the world wanted to kill this poor bird. So I'm taking care of him and then he gets his right leg caught in the bars and breaks it. I didn't notice right away til it was dangling. I thought I was going to have to put him down. He was really bad off for a time. I also feared come close to weaning time as that's when soft bills die on me. I don't know why. They may have done great but come weaning time they just keel over. Well I decided to make my own special formula since I had run out of baby food. I didn't know if this would work but I knew this bird needed high protein and calcium. So I took puppy food, mealworms, soldier fly larva and heaping does of calcium powder and mixed it into moist crumbles. I began to feed him this warmed up to 107 F. To my surprised he really turned around and began to recover. But then he bent his left wrist because he was compensating for the broken leg. So basically he was wrapped like a mummy. I know no vet would see him and to turn him over to a shelter would be a death sentence. I almost thought I had to put him down myself but then I saw he had so much life and fight in his eyes. I could not do that to him. I had to keep trying. So after having him all tied up for a week I unwrapped him and he's doing way better. I'm disappointed he'll never be releasable. I was hoping he'd be an outdoor pet like I saw someone else have in a video. I don't know why this bird came into my life but I will keep trying. I've got him eating pellets now and the next challenge is weaning. He takes food on his own sometimes but has a long way to go before he just feeds from a dish.
So between the crippled song bird and the demanding mutt I barely have time for anything else. And for those of you that may not know I was very sad to find out that Whitey has developed cancer. She has a tumor that's been growing in the exact same place between her legs as Bullet did. I'm pretty sure I'm going to eventually lose her. She's going down hill faster than Bullet. Bullet was a fighter but Whitey isn't as tough. As I said in the video I'm very disappointed that Minion never figured out how to mate and that they didn't have babies. I wanted to pass on the lacewing, get Minion's genes into the line and develope super talking babies. Minion can say 230 words and I'm thinking Whitey would be the guiness holder for female budgie with 40 words.
Late happy Father's day. We had a nice one. We took Olive to meet Chris's parents. They've been wanting to meet her. That went well. Olive was very good for the most part. A bit rough the way she loves. I need to keep working on manners so she can interact nicely with older people. At home Olive is constantly getting in trouble and put in time out for grabbing things she's not supposed to, the carpet, shoes, sheets just about anything. And she has tons of her own toys. I love to spoil her but I have a bunch of nice things I have never given her because she has not earned the right to them yet.
I'm sorry I haven't been around guys. I think about all of you all the time. Most of you have my text so we can always send photos there to each other.
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Some of you may know that I've also been taking care of a baby cardinal that's a total disaster in and of himself. I call it a "he" until I know for sure what it is once it molts. I named him Binky as it's a name that works for either sex. It was the name of the bird in the old anime Heidi cartoon from the 80s. And in a way another Megamind reference since that was his little power source thing his dad gave him. "Here is your Binky and here is your Minion." Funny I have a Binky and a Minion now. So Binky left the nest way too soon. He was headed for the yard full of cats and dogs. My yard has Olive which I don't trust around birds yet. There were no safe branches to put the baby on and I knew he'd be a gonner come morning. So I took him in. It's like the world wanted to kill this poor bird. So I'm taking care of him and then he gets his right leg caught in the bars and breaks it. I didn't notice right away til it was dangling. I thought I was going to have to put him down. He was really bad off for a time. I also feared come close to weaning time as that's when soft bills die on me. I don't know why. They may have done great but come weaning time they just keel over. Well I decided to make my own special formula since I had run out of baby food. I didn't know if this would work but I knew this bird needed high protein and calcium. So I took puppy food, mealworms, soldier fly larva and heaping does of calcium powder and mixed it into moist crumbles. I began to feed him this warmed up to 107 F. To my surprised he really turned around and began to recover. But then he bent his left wrist because he was compensating for the broken leg. So basically he was wrapped like a mummy. I know no vet would see him and to turn him over to a shelter would be a death sentence. I almost thought I had to put him down myself but then I saw he had so much life and fight in his eyes. I could not do that to him. I had to keep trying. So after having him all tied up for a week I unwrapped him and he's doing way better. I'm disappointed he'll never be releasable. I was hoping he'd be an outdoor pet like I saw someone else have in a video. I don't know why this bird came into my life but I will keep trying. I've got him eating pellets now and the next challenge is weaning. He takes food on his own sometimes but has a long way to go before he just feeds from a dish.
So between the crippled song bird and the demanding mutt I barely have time for anything else. And for those of you that may not know I was very sad to find out that Whitey has developed cancer. She has a tumor that's been growing in the exact same place between her legs as Bullet did. I'm pretty sure I'm going to eventually lose her. She's going down hill faster than Bullet. Bullet was a fighter but Whitey isn't as tough. As I said in the video I'm very disappointed that Minion never figured out how to mate and that they didn't have babies. I wanted to pass on the lacewing, get Minion's genes into the line and develope super talking babies. Minion can say 230 words and I'm thinking Whitey would be the guiness holder for female budgie with 40 words.
Late happy Father's day. We had a nice one. We took Olive to meet Chris's parents. They've been wanting to meet her. That went well. Olive was very good for the most part. A bit rough the way she loves. I need to keep working on manners so she can interact nicely with older people. At home Olive is constantly getting in trouble and put in time out for grabbing things she's not supposed to, the carpet, shoes, sheets just about anything. And she has tons of her own toys. I love to spoil her but I have a bunch of nice things I have never given her because she has not earned the right to them yet.
I'm sorry I haven't been around guys. I think about all of you all the time. Most of you have my text so we can always send photos there to each other.
.