[MadCatter]

Thank you for posting this!

I'm still trying to get my parakeet to eat fresh fruits and veggies. He's only been with me for a couple weeks though, and is still warming up to me. He loves his pellets, and I give him a little bit of seed to forage for on the carpet.

I'm finding that by placing little bits of food scattered on the ground, I can get him more interested in it than if I put it in a bowl in the cage - I'm hoping that eventually I'll be able to get him to eat out of the bowl, once he makes the connection that they are the same food. Fortunately, any of the fruits and veggies he doesn't eat for the day gets to be fed to my bumblebee milipede, who prefers his food to have been sitting out for the day first.

I also have 5 rats, which require fresh veggies and fruits daily, as well as a pretty specific diet (most people wouldn't realize this about rats ;) ) and so I can buy plenty of stuff for variety, and it wont go bad before it gets eaten by somebody.