froggij
09-25-2014, 02:53 AM
This might be too similar to the funny habits topic, if it is, please feel free to delete/move it. But I was thinking and watching my kids today and realized they're all just weirdos when it comes to their personal hygiene.
Rose - likes to bathe in her clean water dishes, resulting in them being changed out twice in one hour sometimes, once so she can bathe in them each and once so she has clean drinking water that she hasn't splashed around in. She also likes to take baths in the actual tub. If we take her in for a shower, she'll wait at the other end of the tub or on the shower curtain rod and stay dry while the shower head is in use, and then won't leave the tub unless you put about an inch of (clean, soap-free) water in it for her and she has to bathe right next to the tub's water spout. She's not much of a public preener, I think she does that mostly at night, unless she has a feather bugging her while she's on mom.
Dori won't bathe with us in the house at all. She waits until we're all gone and then dunks herself face-first into her water dish. We come home and her whole front half is soaked from her playing around, and her cage bottom is absolutely drenched, but if we're there she's all business...and her business is causing trouble of course ;). Speaking of business, she has a favorite place to "go" - she'll walk out to the end of her cage door (it lifts out and then folds perpendicularly to the floor, like a little shelf for her to sit on), and get right in the corner and let loose. If her door's open, she won't "go" in her cage, she'll get out to that spot and have a good "wiggle" on the carpet (we're definitely putting a mat down).
Orsino isn't a fan of bathing in dishes. He prefers spray-baths or small water bottle caps (yes, I know he can't fit in them but god love him he tries), and absolutely hates the sink. However, even if he's inside safely, if he hears rain or sits on his perch in the shower, he tries to bathe even when the water isn't hitting him. I gave him a spray-bottle bath this afternoon and soaked half my living room because he was being so adorable and wouldn't stop fluffing up and opening his wings, waiting for me to spray him again, and he had so much fun. He's also an avid preener (not in an OCD way), and spends much of his time before and after a bath making sure his feathers are laying perfectly in place; but, as I imagine him saying, it takes hard work to look that good.
Rose - likes to bathe in her clean water dishes, resulting in them being changed out twice in one hour sometimes, once so she can bathe in them each and once so she has clean drinking water that she hasn't splashed around in. She also likes to take baths in the actual tub. If we take her in for a shower, she'll wait at the other end of the tub or on the shower curtain rod and stay dry while the shower head is in use, and then won't leave the tub unless you put about an inch of (clean, soap-free) water in it for her and she has to bathe right next to the tub's water spout. She's not much of a public preener, I think she does that mostly at night, unless she has a feather bugging her while she's on mom.
Dori won't bathe with us in the house at all. She waits until we're all gone and then dunks herself face-first into her water dish. We come home and her whole front half is soaked from her playing around, and her cage bottom is absolutely drenched, but if we're there she's all business...and her business is causing trouble of course ;). Speaking of business, she has a favorite place to "go" - she'll walk out to the end of her cage door (it lifts out and then folds perpendicularly to the floor, like a little shelf for her to sit on), and get right in the corner and let loose. If her door's open, she won't "go" in her cage, she'll get out to that spot and have a good "wiggle" on the carpet (we're definitely putting a mat down).
Orsino isn't a fan of bathing in dishes. He prefers spray-baths or small water bottle caps (yes, I know he can't fit in them but god love him he tries), and absolutely hates the sink. However, even if he's inside safely, if he hears rain or sits on his perch in the shower, he tries to bathe even when the water isn't hitting him. I gave him a spray-bottle bath this afternoon and soaked half my living room because he was being so adorable and wouldn't stop fluffing up and opening his wings, waiting for me to spray him again, and he had so much fun. He's also an avid preener (not in an OCD way), and spends much of his time before and after a bath making sure his feathers are laying perfectly in place; but, as I imagine him saying, it takes hard work to look that good.