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Post by seraffa on Aug 21, 2014 14:27:18 GMT -5
Pauly got into foster care as of this past Sunday and is doing GREAT. I always knew he was a "man's bird" and only lets the dad of the house touch him. But the unexpected thing is Pauly is chatting and gossiping with the family's parakeets (in separate cages.) I am going to visit him for the first time this Friday to observe.
Perhaps Pauly had 'keets in his past that he was with, but nobody told me anything except about his previous owners. Does anyone here have a cage with both a Quaker and a Keet coexisting well? If Pauly does better with smaller cage-mates, should I consider purchasing cage mates of his own sex? Or do I have to take Pauly over to actually "see the prospective keets" before taking this extra step?
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Post by siobhan on Aug 21, 2014 15:51:30 GMT -5
Clyde's little shadow is my budgie, Benjy, and Clyde allows Benjy in his cage, but that's when the door is open and everybody's mixing and matching anyway. Benjy would like to share Clyde's cage and when he's ready for bed, he puts himself to bed in there, but I always fetch him out and tuck him in his own cage for the night. It's one thing to be friendly and hang out, and it's something entirely different to be locked in a cage together. I don't even lock my two tiel boys in together, and they're best friends.
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Post by Jan and Shah on Aug 21, 2014 20:55:20 GMT -5
Shah would love to share the cockatiels' cage - so he can hurt them. He dislikes them intensely and I would never leave him alone with the cockatiels. He does talk to them - by calling them Pippin over and over and over again (all cockatiels are Pippin to him). But when he has been close to them, he lunges and comes away with a beak full of feathers so I make sure he is never near them.
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Post by seraffa on Aug 21, 2014 23:58:36 GMT -5
Hmmmm...well, I guess to me this sounds like each bird has to be provided with "his own space" every day for a healthier sense of self. Familiarity breeds contempt, as the old saying goes? And I guess it is so for humans as well. At least, 2 year old humans. lol
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Post by siobhan on Aug 22, 2014 13:45:32 GMT -5
Even my two boy tiels have days when they're cranky with each other. They had three fights last night.
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