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Did the hurricane do this to it?

>>2477917
Poor fella :'(

>>2477917
jeez that sea cow is in a real irmagency

It's pretty good he got on your hand so fast at all.

3 weeks is still very early. Lots of parrots are pissy while inside their cage and sometimes they won't get over that at all. But its too early to worry about that anyway.

Encourage him to come out on his own by leaving the cage open. When he is comfortable outside of it, remove him from the room the cage its in and he is rely on you. Hands will be less scarier to them if they aren't inside the cage.

Also is his wings clipped? If so I wouldn't remove him from the room his cage is in until or if he knows how to actually fly and not crash into everything.

>>2477412
He went out of the cage/room a couple of times, though it wasn't voluntarily most of the times. I sometimes left some millets outside of his cage and he got out to get some and went in again as he pleased.
His wings aren't clipped (anymore). He flew a couple of times around the room, but nothing bad happened. I close the curtains before I let him go so he won't fly in any windows etc.
Regarding the cage, cockatiels are pretty terroritorial, no?

>>2477469
What's your room like? Or the room his cage is in. Like beds, chairs, couches, etc. For flighty or birds that aren't used to be handled or flying, I use a fairly empty room that has a fridge, washing machine and dryer. I put towels over the surfaces so they don't slide when they land. There's also a window with a good curtain bar to land on. It's where I take my lovebirds to fly around and where I use so they could get both exercise and learn to fly better without wiping out. They still don't appreciate hands but they will fly to my head, shoulder, arm, chest, etc.

Just make sure there is no places for him to get stuck behind and enough places for him to land safely if he freaks out. I personally think it's safer for flighty birds to have their wings clipped and also clipped birds will rely on you. They don't like to be on the ground, they will come to you for height and they will stay on you when they realize they can't just launch off of you.

But your cockatiel honestly sounds like he is doing good progress. Three weeks is nothing and it's great he will get on your hand at all, even only with food. Just keep offering him food and entice him outside the cage. Close it sometimes so he has to hang out outside the cage. He just has to learn outside the cage is safe and that you and your hand is safe. Don't grab at him at all unless you have too.

Pretty much all birds can be very cage territorial. Some birds will always be bitey assholes inside a cage but be perfect sweethearts once outside of it. This can go for parakeets to macaws(I have owned parakerts, tiels and birdsat large parrots). He might not get over it but just keep offering treats inside the cage slowly if you really want to work on cage aggression but again, it's only been three weeks. You're doing just fine.

Fucking hell, I thought the same yesterday.

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Maybe they should have evolved to be more than 5 lbs so they wouldn't get blown away when they live in the biggest site for hurricanes on the planet.

Somebody explain this to me?

>>2477336
Only the vet will be able to tell you pal. Hope he gets better.

>>2477349
You gonna pay for the bill?

>>2477416
What is this new meme

>>2477260
We're not really a jack-of-all-trade at all. Obviously, we have the most intelligence (by quite some margin), and we're also quite good endurance runners where most large mammals are focused on short sprints. We also have very good color vision.
Similarly, opposable thumbs are basically the tightest shit ever.

>>2477260
We're actually pretty excelent at lot of things like swimming (compared to most mammals), our only weak spot is fighting without man-made tools.

In any case superior intelligence is overpowered.

>>2477260
ancient apes realized that they could pwn most other animals by outsmarting them and adapting the enviroment to themselves

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good video bro.

>>2477087
I find most cats prefer sissel rope. The post you - well, posted - has some on the vertical poles.

Look for trees that have multiple textures and types of scratching surfaces. E.g. OP pic has vertical, horizontal, diagonal; carpet, sissel. Cardboard and natural wood are also possibilities.

Just saying, if you're even halfway handy you can save a LOT by building cat trees out of scrap wood and carpet. Sissel rope is cheap at Home Depot too.

Avoid cardboard scratchers, they make a fucking mess, go for carpet and sissel

imagine being so cucked by a filthy animal you'd be willing to put up such a hideous monstrosity inside your home

It s more dangerous to evacuate them, especially in an IRMA situation, since the Hurricanes can change course and the stress is dangerous To them too.

All the strongest animals live in poured concrete enclosures anyhow.

> not walking your lions and elephants down the highway while a hurricane is up your ass
Literally triggering

The animals too big and/or dangerous to move enclosures to stay in made of poured concrete and steel, they rode out Andrew without losing anything, they'll be fine. They'd lose a good number of them from the stress of moving them anyway.

looks like leafs

Leaves with either a type of plant tumor or eggs, likely insect, on them. OP your camera sucks.

>>2476919
gall wasps. babby wasps are in those. not the big scary kind that build paper nests tiny lil fuckers that leave people alone

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>>2476870

>>2476870
Even people trained in recognizing mushrooms make fatal errors. Poisonous ones look like safe ones, and vice versa. Take the dog to a vet. NOW.

>>2476874
I know you're trolling but this is no time to troll.

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heres a closer pic, its just started pooping everywhere.

>>2476761
>>2476762
Agelenopsis sp.

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>>2476762
Looks to me like just a normal house spider.

Glad u made the thread though. Just put this little girl outside (with her egg sac). Anyone know what this one is?

>>2476725
An orthopteran

>>2476727
It sure is a strange one though!

>>2476725
Where was this picture taken (State, Country) ?

terrifed

Very dangerous, If you found it on your clothes the mother should be near. Its bigger than the son and have poison.

>>2476649
How did you manage to Google an image of a pseudoscorpion without finding out what it is?

"We'll get you a new one."

>>2476563
>We'll get you a used one
wtf mom

>>2476563
Do they really have THAT much money?

>>2476501
Yes, but can you?

Clicker training with food rewards works well with cats. However, you must be intelligent enough to understand how a less intelligent animal learns. You must be very patient, consistent and opportunistic. You cannot make a particular cat do something it would never, ever want to do on its own.

Some guy from /fit/ had his cat climb up and down a tree every day and made a vest with attached weights for him. He also put some protein powder into his food. According to that guy, his cat became visibly more muscular within a few months.

>>2476501
Yes, but not like a dog. Cts are far stupider and mostly react to pain.