Jasmine's Model Pose

Sometimes when Jazzy is on my hand, she just swings herself backwards. When she does this I know to take a slightly stronger hold on her feet so she doesn't slip. We call these "upside downs".

Usually she likes me to gently lower my hand to the floor until she can touch it with her beak and then I bring my arm up gently but with some building momentum until she's up at my head height, by which time she rights herself again.

Sometimes when we're playing like this I just put her down gently on the top of her cage.

At other times, when she's perched on the top bar of her cage, she'll roll herself under it, squishing herself between it and the cage and then lay flat on her back. She doesn't seem to mind the consequences to her wings or feathers.


You can see here where she's still holding on to the bar with her feet.

Getting up out of this position can be somewhat challenging. Here she has reached over so, that with her beak gripping the bar on the left hand side of the photo, she can begin to pull herself upright.



The rest is sheer muscle work, pulling herself up and out.








Her cutest pose of all is this one below, where she puts her foot up behind her head near her eye.

She does this sometimes also on the side of her cage, holding onto the cage with one leg while she rolls tummy up. Then she puts her free leg up around the back of her head just like this.