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I'm so pissed off with my mom right now! I went camping on Saturday and we were just going to stay for one night so I thought I'd just leave my lovie, Pixel at home, thinking it would be less stressful than taking him to someone else's house. I called my mum telling her I would give her a key so she could maybe check on him if we decided to stay a little longer. She persuaded me to bring him over and she would watch him. I brought his food along with him to her house just in case, telling her she probably wouldn't need to refill his food bowls. He had his pellet/seed mix that go into the plastic bowls you can reach from outside the cage and his avicakes that go into a bowl you have to reach into his cage to get to. I demonstrated how to empty the bowls and put all fresh food in there and as well that he needded his water changed at least once a day. I also told her that he was flying a lot more than the last time she saw him since his clipped feathers are growing out and she should be very careful if she was to let him out. She said that she wouldn't let him out just to avoid any accidents. My dad was at their summerhouse but she told me she was going to stay at home and not join him for at least a week.
On Sunday I call her and tell her I'm staying for a couple of days and to check up on Pixel. She tells me that she opened his cage and he flew straight into the window! Okay, not her fault but the last thing she told me when I left was that she wouldn't let him out. So I remind her that since I would be gone longer she would have to change his food bowls.
On Monday my car is acting up and I call my dad (who is alone in their summerhouse, remember, since my mom wasn't joining him for at least a week) who tells me Pixel is there with him. WHAT?!? Mom just told me the day before she would be staying at home. Apparently my dad had to go home for something and my mom decided to go with him back to the summerhouse. So they just put Pixel in his cage in the back of the station wagon and drove up there.
On Tuesday I call my mom just to check up on things and she tells me how much he eats. I tell her he's looking for a certain seed because he won't eat the pellets in the mix and she has to empty it and put fresh in and that she should take the metal bowl out and put fresh avicakes in there, just take him out first because he will bite when you reach into his cage. Then she tells me how much he poops and that she just cleaned out the seed tray and it's covered in poop allready. I tell her that I used to put newspaper in the bottom but since he just rolled it up to make a hideout and become vicious I stopped doing that so I had to clean it in the bathtub all the time. She suggests putting something in the bottom so he had something to do. I tell her no, he has a lot of toys and he wouldn't be bored. All right.
On Wednesday we're coming home and we were going to stop by the summerhouse to get Pixel on our way. So when we have about an hour left to drive I call my dad and he tells me mom went home to go to my niece's birthday and took Pixel with her. At this point I'm like "WTF!?!" Is she doing this just to piss me off? So I call my mom and she's at the birthday party, I tell I will be there tonight to pick Pixel up. When we get into town it's almost 9 pm and I go straight for Pixel, my mom's not home yet but I can let myself in. He's in the living room, with very little water that smells very foul! He has eaten all the avicakes I left him 5 days ago and only the hulls are left. He's digging through his seed/pellet mix bowl, apparently looking for the good bits. There's a towel in the bottom of his cage.
I take him home and he takes a shower with me and drinks a lot of water! I take him to his playstand to dry off and put food in his playstand bowl. As soon as I put the bowl there he jumps on it and starts eating like he hasn't eaten for days! He sits there for at least 20 minutes just eating!
I look into the food bowl in his cage and there are just pellets left and the hulls from the seeds he likes. And there is a lot in it. Like 3 times more than I usually put in there. So I call my mom to ask if she didn't change his water and if she didn't throw away the old food before she put more in. She said she changed his water everyday but not this morning because they were going for a drive but she didn't wash his water bowl in between (my bad, I didn't tell her but I thought she would at least rinse it). She said she didn't throw away the old food, she just topped it with fresh food. I didn't even mention the towel in the bottom because I didn't want to seem ungrateful. I was telling her that next time she would have to do as I told her and then she said "At least he's alive!"
Is that really all I can expect from her? Should I be gratefull she didn't kill my bird!?! Remember she was the one who persuaded me into letting her watch him, not like I was asking her to do something she didn't want to do!