I agree with Vicky. How can Dizzy resist with all that attention, spoiling and tender loving care? He'll be putty in your hands before long. Oh, and the updates are a MUST - please.

Looking forward to following Dizzys progress.
It`s such a pleasure to be able to help even in a small way.
Determined to get those nails sorted
Scarlett xx

Hi Victoria, Would love it if you could tell me "Told you so ner ner ner" would make my year several times over. Forget winning the lottery winning Dizzy over a little will do. Dizzy Blue can now be seen on Scarletts website of happy customers. I decided to go against the grain and introduce the new large clam perch and twister perch straight away (I live on the edge you know lol) Normally anything that hasn't been in full view for at least a week on the living room sideboard would mean Dizzy screaming shaking sitting on the cage floor corner unbeliveably stressed hence I don't do it. The new perches went straight in. Dizzy sat staring at them I moved away unsure if I needed to dive in and take them out again. Dizzy cocked his head to one side and wandered over the next thing I know he's sat on top of one to reach the other so he could chew it!!! He's off and on them all the time now I moved his fruit pot so if he wants something from there he has to go on them and he does find a nice bit of peach or a raspberry just too irrisistable to leave alone. Worn down nails = no vets and toweling for manicures = happy Dizzy = happy days woooooooo hoooooooo. :o)

Well done Dizzy, keep up the good work, now to let Mum have a bit of a scratch, you have to keep her hopes up Dizz or that rasperry or peach might just not be so forthcoming.

Sometimes you just get a feeling, strange I know as I've never met you of Dizzy but I have it now and I will get to say it, I just know it!!

Way to go Dizzy!!

Well done both thats great.

Those shell perches are great

PAB

Thats so good to hear. I know my birds like the twisted perches and my Tiels like eating the clam one.

Latest on the nail issues...............well done everybody on the advice those nails are beginning to wear down - the very tip of the sharp points have become blunted and it is very evident on the speed he can now race across the carpet to attach me lol. Dizzy has taken to sleeping on the twisted perch the clam perch is being used too but more on the trying to eat/destroy mission but at least he stands on it when he's doing that. The milk thistle is going down a storm too. So big thank you's everybody we really appreciate it. :o)

Just out of interest, have you noticed any major change in his over all health, feather condition, movement etc since putting him on the milk thistle??? He's obviously more agile from what you say lol but just wondering.. i KNOW for a fact that milk thistle works but it's brill to get feed back off of others to prove it..lol
shaz

That`s fantastic, well, maybe not for you now he can catch you faster! Lol

Way to go Dizzy

Can I just way what a looker he is. You could dive into those eyes. I'm such a tart, I love everything!!

He looks fab, you are obviously doing something right!! Keep up the good work both!!

Hi Shaz, Well milk thistle wise he's been on it for only two weeks so not long really but since he's gone on it he's come into breeding condition. He has started to open his wings can't open them fully but is trying to stretch all the time (there's no flapping just lifting them above his head looks like he's trying to start a mexican wave!!!). As he's spent 15 years before coming to live with me confined in to a cage (24/7) too small to open even one wing out and the years prior to that I have my suspicions it was much of the same as he 47. The day he arrived I had him straight to the vets for a check up my vet he checked him all over and did say his wings were frozen at the joints and his movement would always be extremely limited, his breathing was really bad, his claws badly overgrown, beak damaged with chunks missing from attacking the bars of his cage, bi-polar cattaracts, extreme neophobia plus the feather condition of an old tatty feather duster he did warn me that Dizzy's life expectancy wasn't going to be very long and his quality of life limited by his past. The vet wanted to knock him out take dna, bloods and xrays but as he probably wouldn't survive being knocked out it wasn't worth it. DizzyBlue has come along in leaps and bounds he's already gone past the point the vet said his wings would ever open up too and is doing things he's supposed to be unable to do. Ok so I went over board and bought him the biggest cage that I could lay my hands on (6ft high 4ft wide and 3ft deep) when he arrived 2 years ago and even though he doesn't like me I make sure he's given the opportunity to be out everyday (supervised by me perched on top of the settee so he can't get to me). During the last few days he's upped his outside the cage play time for short bursts of about 20 minutes out and about then sleep for half an hour then do it again he can now accomplish up to 3 hours trundling around causing chaos before going back in for a sleep! He's preening more as you can see from his picture he's a handsome chap and seems to be a lot less withdrawn, I think he's less depressed he also seems to be getting over the neophobia a little too. I suppose to see if it's the milk thistle I'd have to take him off it and gauge his physical/mental state but sorry am not willing to do that all I can say is from never having used it before I am now a firm believer it's that that's making him feel like a youngster again and I wouldn't deny him that. Who knows where we'll be in two years time. I'll let you know how he is in another six weeks and that way we'll have a real sense of what's going on. Best regards Tasha & DizzyBlue