Post by Scratchpost on May 1, 2023 23:56:10 GMT -7
Aka and I eat breakfast together. He has a soft parrot food and after a while I give him chop. I have to wait to give him his chop because if I give him his chop when I give him his breakfast, he eats his chop and ignores breakfast until the afternoon which isn't ideal because then he picks at is breakfast instead of eating it properly. I have noticed if he does this, he doesn't really finish it during the day like he does with his pellets, chop, and when he eats his breakfast properly (more than four or five beak fulls).
I have a bowl of porridge and a small yoghurt for breakfast, and Aka has started copying my eating habits. The yoghurt is in a different bowl and I eat it after the porridge. If he doesn't eat enough breakfast and starts asking for his chop, I say something along the lines of "Your chop isn't ready yet, eat some more breakfast" which he gladly does, until I eat my yoghurt.
This is where the perception comes in. If I start eating my yoghurt before Aka has finished eating most of his breakfast, he will stop eating his breakfast and wait (and squeak) until I get his chop. He refuses to eat anymore breakfast, and on some mornings, he climbs out of his cage and starts eyeing the kitchen, probably thinking that he could just fly there and get his chop. I think the thought behind this is: You are eating out of a second bowl, why can't I?
So now, I have to wait to eat my yoghurt otherwise Aka will ask for his chop to soon and leave his breakfast to the ants.
