3/23 Rusty AMPS 121, +5.5 88, +9 78, PMPS 96, +4.5 74

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Hi Everyone,

All is well here. Rusty is eating OK. It's a beautiful day. We haven't done much, so not much to report. Here's a pic from Tuesday's hike: A chickadee accepting a peanut from me!

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What an awesome photo!!! I'm glad Rusty's appy is OK. I'm trying to find fuds that James likes. He is learning to eat from a microchip-triggered food dish, and is making good progress with the training on that. Unfortunately he seems to like Lucy's Rx renal food, so I will have to order another dish and start to train Lucy to use it, so that each cat only has access to their own food. That's the plan anyway.

Cool photo. I'm glad Rusty is doing well.

cool...
i do that with hummingbirds, never tried with any others.

Scritches to Rusty.

Eating OK is good. With gusto is better.

Love the pic. The jays here, especially the whisky jacks in the mountains love to eat out of hand.

What a great picture!!

I don't know how you got that close to a bird.....they always fly away around here!!

Looks like Rusty likes being back on the Terumo's!

Chris & China said:

picture!!
I don't know how you got that close to a bird.....they always fly away around here!!

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This is a spot (Marcy Dam) where chickadees have become accustomed to requesting food. It is famous. One of the women in the group held out her hand (without food in it), a chickadee landed on it, saw there was no food, and scolded her with a string of "dees" (chickadee, dee, dee, dee, dee,). Fortunately I had some peanuts in my little baggie of gorp.

Linda and Bear Man said:

I'm trying to find fuds that James likes. He is learning to eat from a microchip-triggered food dish, and is making good progress with the training on that.

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Do you mean that the food dish is triggered by his own microchip? Wow! Glad he's settling in. E mail me a picture when you get a chance.

rhiannon and shadow (GA) said:

i do that with hummingbirds, never tried with any others.

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Our hummingbirds hover around us, but prefer the feeder!

Wendy&Neko said:

The jays here, especially the whisky jacks in the mountains love to eat out of hand.

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I've heard that Canadian Gray Jays do that. Are Whisky Jacks Canadian Gray Jays? (or a West Coast subspecies?)

Gray Jays are Whiskey Jacks. I like that name better. They are actually a bit of a pest with how close they'll get.

What a great picture! Just the other day I was listening to the chickadees calling to each other back and forth. I've never tried to feed one.
Rusty's numbers sure look good. Hope OK is okay!