Percy and Kyp

Percy and Kyp
Percy's voice is in blue. Kyp's voice is in orange. In black its us together

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

A Story Time for Us

We spend a lot of time watching Miss Renee read stories, parents reading stories to kids, kids reading to themselves.  We've even heard that some kids take the time to read to dogs.  But until today no one has thought to read to us.  Today a little boy was with us today, watching very intently.  He was as interesting to us to watch as we were to him I'm sure.  Until suddenly he got off the stool kids use to see us, picked up a book and began reading to us about Santa and the reindeer.  We were thrilled!  So if you are ever in the library and you have a little time.  Please feel free to read Percy and I a story.

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Enough with the Cold

I don't know if you've noticed but it's cold!  Now I know that everyone has been freezing outside and that the temperature has been below zero (Miss Renee tells us all this stuff).  But it hasn't been all that warm and cozy in the library either.  Maybe you haven't noticed, but the children's room of the library is on the chilly side.  Now while you human beings can put on a coat or a sweater to keep warm, there isn't much that Kyp and I can do.  So when we're cold you'll notice we tend to sit more and fluff out all our feathers.  It makes us look like little puffy balls.  Plus we're not as active when we're cold.  Can you imagine having cold bare feet all the time - it's not fun!  

Well, we're lucky.  Miss Renee noticed that we weren't really active and that we were always fluffed up, so she and Miss Sue got busy looking for a solution.  At first they tried turning up the heat in the children's section but that didn't do much to keeping the chill away.  So solution number 2 was to find a way to heat the cage.  Miss Renee looked into getting a heat lamp for us, but she was having a hard time finding one that wasn't designed as a floor lamp.  That doesn't help us since our cage is on a counter.  But eventually a heater was found - two in fact.  The first was a heated perch, the wiring went through and made the perch warm so that when Kyp or I sat on the perch it would warm our feet and up into out bodies.  This sounded fantastic!  Unfortunately, when the perch came in it was huge - way to big for our little cage.  The other option was a heating pad that could be attached to the side of the cage near our perches and we can snuggle up next to it and get warm.  This was perfect.

So if you're checking out our cage you'll notice a gray panel, that is our heater.  It keeps our cage nice and warm and we're much happier.  We do ask though that you not touch our heater, because well its hot, it won't burn but it's best not to fiddle with it.

So now we are quite the happy pair.  We get all the natural UV sunlight that we need from our lamp, and we're nice and snuggly warm with our new heater.  Miss Renee says that since we've gotten these things we are much more active than ever and we look very healthy.  So while every one else is freezing with the unpredictable weather, Kyp and I are quite content in our little home - though we could use some more veggies or scrambled eggs in our food cups.