I decided to make a thread for Kiki as she keeps doing silly stuff. She is without a doubt the pet with the biggest character that I have ever had.
Kiki is very determined little lady. If she doesnt want your attention she will make this warning screeching/chirping sound at you. She never bites, but she figured that if she screeches, she will be left alone.
From time to time she even screeches while sleeping! I rush to her cage, lift everything until I find her (as I'm scared she is stuck or is in pain); and I'm always met with half-closed eyes looking up at me in confusion.
The first vet I took her to refused to get her out of her carrier himself due to her warning him. I told the next one that she didn't bite and she just scooped her up. Kiki screeched for a good 3-4 seconds before sitting still in the vet's hand and looking like the biggest questionmark I have ever seen! I really would love to know what exactly went through her tiny head at that moment ahaha.
She also has this odd sleeping position.
But she sure seems comfortable!
Kiki is very food-driven. In fact it became a problem and the vet said she needed to lose a bit of weight.
I did a full cage clean and filled her bowl with a teaspoon of food. As usual she ate the parts she liked and left the rest expecting me to refill it the next day. What she didn't know was that the new rule said 'no more food until your bowl is empty!'
The first few nights she would patiently wait at her foodbowl for a refill. She didnt want to even have a look at whatever was left as she didnt like it. It took her 5 days to eat the rest.
I must say I didnt expect her to be that determined to not eat something she didnt fancy.
She even tried looking underneath her bowl to see if she was lucky that something had fallen through it!
Anyway. This plan with filling a bit into her bowl when it was completely empty, went really well the first 3 weeks. She lost 7g or so and I was really proud of her. BUT - and yes there's a but - this is where we are now and now she has figured out that the bowl has to be empty, before it will be refilled. I checked her cage and she actually eats the parts that she doesnt like to get the parts that she likes again. (if that made any sense). She doesnt hide them anywhere. She regained 5g because of her new 'smart' idea.
I didn't think this was too bad at first. I would just wait and refill her bowl when it had been empty for a couple of hours instead. But now she empties her bowl and starts being extremely noisy until I refill it.
Today I walked by her cage and completely ignored her sulking in her foodbowl. This she really didnt take well.
First she walked up to the bars and started biting them. Then back to standing at her bowl for at bit. She then ran around in her cage for 4-5 seconds and then she started climbing the bars. In the end she was at the very top gnawing until I got crazy.
And that is what she thinks of her diet.
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