Jenni's Turn

Tonight I tried a new recipe for Scout. It's a chopped salad, more or less. I combined a green bell pepper, some crushed pellets, some corn, some peas, some green beans, some carrots, some pinto beans, and a whole sweet potato. I shredded everything with my food processor and then mixed it. I scooped the mixture into 2 ice cube trays and froze it. I plan to put it into a gallon-sized freezer bag tomorrow morning to save space. I hope Scout likes it! Because he is a picky eater but likes stuff with bell peppers and real vegetables in it, I thought the mixture would cover the taste of the crushed pellets. He won't eat pellets, either fruit-flavored or regular. He eats almost everything else though.

Unfortunately, Dizzy is even pickier than Scout is! There are about 5 things she will eat: pellets, seeds (including millet spray), hand feeding formula, grapes, blueberries. Sometimes she will eat apple pieces but only if you hand them to her one by one. It's not really time-constructive. Dizzy is also picky about her toys. Actually, she doesn't like toys. She has a cozy hut in her cage that she uses only to cuddle and rub up against. She likes shredding toys sometimes but not always. She will play with her seed sock once in a while. So what does Dizzy have as a distraction during the day? Well, she loves to crawl into the keyboard tray of Jason's computer desk and play back there. She helps type and bites the scroll-ring of the mouse. Not a really big playing bird by herself.

On the subject of toys, Scout loves his. I am going to various websites and getting ideas of toys to make for a fraction of the cost. We ended up giving him the toys we had originally purchased for Dizzy because she won't touch them but he loves them. We got her a wooden birdy abacus with wooden beads. Within a week of the abacus in his cage Scout had chewed through the dowels on the rows. Scout likes toys he can chew, shred, and climb on. What a cool bird.