Dumpling is in Love

For some strange reason, since we moved Larry into the red room which Ian is using as his office, Dumpling has become absolutely fascinated by him and spends most of her waking hours (which admittedly, isn’t many) staring lovingly into his cage. Obviously being Dumpling she ‘s a little low on the ground, so all that Larry sees is the top of Dumpling’s head, but occasionally her nose, which he takes as being fair game and tries to peck. Which given Dumping’s, er, slightly stumpy nose is quite a feat.

Not sure what has caused this infatuation. Most of the dogs hang around Larry’s cage, as he is quite messy and often stews bits of seed around or even better (if you are a dog), manages to poop outside his cage – but none of them have quite this level of loyalty. Not even Rosie who spent the first 48 hours of Larry coming to live with us, permanently pointing at him. The infatuation may be the smell of his new parrot food, but if it is, she’s the only one that’s quite so impressed by it.

We’ve been talking about Larry’s living quarters in the next house and thought we’d quite like to build him a voladero. I don’t know how this translates, but it’s sort of like a flight room. He’s so used to his cage though, he may not take to a larger play area. But we’ll see….