Road Trip
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Whole family went. Wife and me, 3 small dogs, and our TAG. The TAG
has been on several trips, and one of them was this long. He loves
it. He has his special travel cage, which resides on the table when
we're stopped and on the bench seat at the table when we're moving.
From that exalted perch, he orders the dogs about. He orders them to
"Stop it, Rocky," "kennel up, Lacey," "NO!" and, since he seems to
like her, "Good girl, Zoe!" At home, he gets irritable when he wants
either food or wants the light turned off, but on the road he only
lets us know when he needs food or water. Since he's right in the
middle of everything, the light can stay on all night if he gets
attention. When my wife and I go exploring a new area, he is a LOT of
company for the kenneled-up dogs.
Wingnut
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Boy, that sounds like a blast. I always dreamed of doing something like
that with our birds, but our new dog gets seriously carsick.
Alex Clayton
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Sounds like you had a great time. We enjoy taking our Macaw on outings. He
being a real show off likes it too, as long as we are careful. He likes
other people as long as it's not too many at once. I well remember one
weekday we went to one of the real nice parks here on the water. It was a
weekday so few people, he was on a stand on the table with us eating lunch.
All was fine for a while until a few school bus's pulled in. About 100 grade
school kids started pouring out. We were wondering if it would work since
they were about 100 yards away. It did not. It was not long before one of
them spotted us and yelled "HEY LOOK A PARROT!!" We had to pack up and
leave. <G>
He loves teasing the dogs. I built them a stand to see out the window. The
bird soon learned that when he gave the call he uses to say someone is
coming like the mail, the dogs would run up on the stand barking like mad
looking both ways. So he will do it when nothing is there, and then tell the
dogs to shut up and laugh. the poor dogs will probably never learn. <VBG>
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Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know
'why' I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads
weren't paved.
Will Rogers
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Hi, Alex! Hope you're doing well. I used to post quite a bit in
RPB. When I married "the kind of woman who would keep a
parrot" (stolen from Mark Twain, but I admitted it) in 1997, I came
here to learn about parrots. And, contrary to the warnings of several
people, I did learn a lot about birds. I certainly remember you from
those days. I was a regular for years, but apparently drifted away,
probably to groups like "rec.understanding.wives" and
"rec.men.aren't.always.right." I love your story about your macaw
out-smarting the dogs. I don't think that our TAG can out-smart the
dogs, but he has out-smarted me a few times. Take care.
Mike Patterson, still looking for his Norwegian Blue
Jim
I'm wondering how my older sun conure would do on a long RV trip. We
live on a boat so he's used to his world moving.
I'm wondering about the risk of theft, and leaving an animal in a locked
vehicle during hot weather. Even if it's just a few hours it still can
get hot.
MikeP
Hi, Jim. Sorry about the delay in responding. I check in
occasionally, but not daily. Your point about leaving an animal in a
locked vehicle during hot weather is certainly a good one. We leave
the generator running, and the air conditioning running if we stop to
eat at a restauran or anything elset. If we're in the motorhome and
moving, the generator is almost always on, for air conditioning,
microwave, electrical outlets for coffee pot, etc. We sometimes spend
a night in a Wal-Mart lot, if we're just stopping to sleep. If you're
an RVer, you know that we don't abuse this. We shop while we're
there, restocking anything we need. I park where I can use a couple
of slide-outs, not opening them into the parking lot. I don't put out
the awnings. The generator is on then, too. Generators are made to
run. Ours runs on the diesel from the fuel tank. If we're in a
campground, and we are if we're there for more than one night, we're
plugged in to shore power. The TAG and our three dogs love traveling
this way.
Mike