u/Effective_Library271

hi everyone! my brother is going to be moving out soon, and i’m thinking of repurposing his bedroom (which has wooden boards as the flooring and no ceiling fan) into a bird room.

i have 2 rainbow lorikeets (adopted after being declared unfit to return to the wild by a wildlife rescue, please don’t send me horrible messages about having a native bird in captivity)

i want my birds to have more space, and be able to be out of cage more often (they get about 4hrs each independently and ~ two hours together each day, because they will just sit on me and climb around as i do my daily tasks around the house or my uni work.), even though they each have a flight cage i still feel so guilty for them spending the evenings / mornings in their cages with nothing to do except play with their cage toys just because i can’t have them on me while i get ready for bed/for the day, or while the other bird is having independent time out of the cage.

if there is nothing else in the room except perches, toys and their cages (food boxes, meds, cleaning stuff would be in the closed cupboard) and i plug all the electrical outlets with plastic child-lock coverings, what are some safety concerns i might still need to be conscious of?

am i valid in being worried about them being unsupervised and out of the cage in a room of their own? i read that a lot of people leave them out of the cage on their own while the birds are alone in a safe room, but i worry they might find some way to hurt themselves that i haven’t considered.

i’d make sure they’re in their cages at nighttime for security, of course. they get along really well and have never attacked one another or even attempted to. they don’t get angry when one comes into the others cage, or eats the others food.

if anyone has done anything similar, please let me know how it went for you and what precautions you took 🙂 thank you 🩷

hi everyone! all your videos are so incredibly artistic and beautiful, i’m so grateful i was able to see so many amazing people being so talented here.

i’m 20, and i’ve been wanting to start polesport classes of some kind since i was 16. i have a loooonggg history of dance/gymnastics, but i quit when i was 15 and haven’t done anything similar since.

even when i was dancing, i had absolutely NO arm strength 😭 while i’m very flexible still, i have nothing going for me in the muscle department.

i am honestly so soft and weak right now, and while i’m not overweight i’m definitely on the higher end of the spectrum (which is fine!! love yourself the way you are and all that.)

i guess some things that have been holding me back are

1. fear of not being strong enough
2. fear of making a fool of myself and looking like an idiot when i can’t even hold onto the pole or something
3. fear of being too big or heavy to hold myself up/ feel confident enough to wear the tiny clothes you have to wear to participate. while i know size shouldn’t hold you back, i feel like i only ever see girls smaller than me, and that can be discouraging.

i guess it would give me a lot of comfort if i could hear maybe some anecdotes of people who started out in a similar position to me.

i’d love to do it. it looks so beautiful and i have been craving so badly to do something artistic with my body and be able to move it again like i used to (ballet and lyrical were my forte, and i was dancing competitively/ winning interstate comps… to now, where i do nothing with my body and i can’t make it do pretty things anymore 😕). it’s between this and aerial sports, but this is what’s really been pulling my interest the last 4 years.

i hope this isn’t too annoying- i hope i can get some advice? words of comfort? i’d appreciate it more than you could ever know.

thank you :)

-charlie 🩷