ephsteph
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Story time!
This is Wash and Zoe.
My boyfriend is on a two hour conference call for the job of his dreams in the city of my dreams. The birds we adopted are pretty skittish and very loud, so I brought their cage in the living room.
I noticed they had knocked their water down, so I very carefully put my hand in their cage to fix it.
They both got out and went flying around the kitchen, so I closed the door to the bedroom so we wouldn't disturb my boyfriend.
Even with my stepladder, I can't reach them in my eight foot tall apartment. I'm only 5'1. Given that the plants they decided to perch on are potentially poisonous, I'm now sitting on the floor and giving them crap when they peck at something they're not supposed to - until my much taller boyfriend is done his interview in an hour. I tried scaring them down but they're a lot less skittish when I can't reach them.
Dick bird tax
Valkor
I wonder if my favorite cat training tool would work: a nerf gun. Don't hit them, just nearby to annoy them.
ephsteph
I feel like I've failed as a person for not having one! I have a marshmallow shooter, but no marshmallows!
squatlow17
Tip, birds can't see in the dark. Turn out the lights. Works everytime.
ephsteph
That's usually what I use to get them back into the cage, but no luck this time!
Xsiah
put food out?
ephsteph
I put a few things out but they seem to be loving their freedom too much.
carkuffb101
Turn out all the lights and get a small light put it in the cage. that's how we got ours back in the cage when I was young.
ephsteph
I tried, and they seemed interested. I guess they could still hear sounds and whatnot in the other room.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Those are aloe vera plants. Pretty sure they're not poisonous to anything
ephsteph
I have a bunch of plants, like an ivy, a succulent, etc.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Did you get them down yet?