Severe soaks food

[BBsAngel]

Our Severe McCaw drops her pellets into her water dish and then fishes them back out to eat them. Is this common for Severes? Do other birds do this?

[mmr]

Many birds make "birdy soup". With pellets, fruit, veggies, you name it! absolutly typical!

[Dana64]

Yup! Totally "normal"! Our TAG Merlin does this and it drives me nuts! I must change his water 10 times a day (I'm a little "focused" on clean water.)

[sunnyhoney]

My sun, Honey dips her food in her water all the time! Drives me crazy.. then she yells at me for fresh water after she dips her food in it! picky picky picky!

[red192]

yelp my ringneck my green cheek and my cockatoo makes soupy messes daily!

[Chief's Mom]

Chief and Tootie are notorious for soup-making. Like Dana, I am constantly changing water. I've tried putting water across the cage, putting it higher than the food, having multiple bowls of water...none of that stops them. Tootie will actually pick up a pellet one at a time and Tarzan her way across all the toys in her cage to get to her water bowl on the other side to dip. No wonder the little rat is always eating! It takes forever just for one bite

Chief thinks everything has to go in water before she'll touch it. She's also a big fan of dropping the wood pieces from toys in the water to make it change colors, then getting her feet and beak all wet and dyed. It's nothing to walk in their room and see Chief with a purple or blue or green beak She's shreds her phone book and places the pages in her water like she's trying to paper mache' her cage. I could change her water every hour and I still would not be happy with it's cleanliness. It's like she needs a perpetual fountain

From what I've read, most birds do well with multiple water bowls; one next to their food and one somewhere else in the cage. That way they have one to dip and play, and another to have fresh clean water. Obviously, they still will need to be changed often, but maybe your Severe just wants a little 'Soup' with his entree

[magdalena]

Casey (new CAG) does this too but mainly with grapes (at least the one grape I gave her yesterday) and pellets, I think she's trying to make pellet wine. The only way I can get Puffletoo (U2) to eat fruit is to float it in his water so he bobs for it. Amazingly Poe (black lory) leaves his water alone and drinks it like a normal (or according to this thread abnormal) bird but I guess his nectar is bird soup on its own.

[Lisa B]

Ollie the Caique, followed by Harley the zon, Sydney the Cag, and sweet emma lynn all dunk stuff. Ollie is the worst. Stirling is the only one who doesnt take everything and try to dunk it. including toys.

[BBsAngel]

Thanks guys. Maybe I'll try floating the fruit the way Puffletoo likes it for Kiwi. I have a hard time getting her to eat a variety of fruits and veggies.

[Eliza]

Oh my goodness... what DOESN'T end up in Pickle's water bowl? He has to soak just about everything in his bowl, including his toys.

Totally normal :)