July 29th 2010

July 29, 2010
What a rough two days with Tag. I am glad Tag is home, but now the real work begins. Tag has been doing great, following Cidney and I everywhere we go throughout the house. We have invested in a good pair of slippers each, as Tag loves to chase our feet. Tags claws are really sharp and we have to wear sweatshirts and sweatpants to let him crawl on us. He is a great eater, the only concern I have is the temperature of Tags food. It has to be between 106-110 degrees or it will kill Tag. If the food is not the right temperature, his crop will go sour. (The crop is his belly.) The food will go sour and will sit there, more feedings will pile up on top of this and eventually within weeks the bird will die. Greys are very good at hiding symptoms of distress. This is due to the fact that when they are in the wild, a grey that is sick is a grey that is harmful to the flock. Meaning, that more predators will stalk the flock, due to the sick one being an easy catch for food. So greys are wonderful at hiding symptoms of illness, this is why you will never know if your grey is sick.
Anyways, I am doing my best and I hope Tag is as good on the inside as Tag seems on the outside. After I picked Tag up from the airport, I took Tag back to my work. Enclosed are some pictures of Christy, Jayson and Chad who were at work when I went back to grab the chip for the camera, which I forgot! (I still managed to forget the cord after I left as well, I was a nervous wreck.) I took some other pictures last night of Tag and I that are enclosed.
Tonight Cid got to meet Tag, Tag followed her around like a little puppy, into her room, around the house, and everywhere she went. Tag also sat on the counter with me while I did some dishes and decided he wanted a drink out of the fish bowl; I nipped that in the butt quick! We also put him in the sink for a while and gave him a little water. Not quite sure what Tags take was on that, but seemed to enjoy ruffling feathers in the water a bit.
These last few days have been really busy. Will post more this weekend and get into the upcoming training that’s about to begin. Enjoy the pictures!
*** On another note, Tag is not sexed, I am doing my best to not use He/She in my writing, or in saying “good boy, or good girl” to Tag. So if some of the writing seems weird because I use Tag a lot, now you know why!