CadeesBird
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- Jul 31, 2020
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Hi Everyone,
I am having to turn to the greater internet for advice.
My daughter has a budgie and she adores her bird. She has worked very hard to bond with her bird and they are now very cute and comfortable together.
We have 2 problems thought.
Problem 1. For some reason birdie is scared of her finger, which has stalled finger training. Anytime my daughter takes her tank close budgie gets aggressive and bites. But birdie is comfortable perching on her glasses, sitting on her head, shoulders and snuggling face to face. We have a dowel that we were using for training. She push the dowel into birdies chest and say "step up" until birdie was comfortable with that. Then she started moving her hand closer on the dowel slowly over weeks. As soon as her hand is close enough budgie bites.
Problem 2.
She is trained well to "step up" onto a dowel which my daughter uses to put her back in her cage. The smart little birdie has this figured out now. When my daughter goes to put her in her cage she flies to the top of her cage and will keep going on the perch but jumping off. My daughter has been very patient and always rewards her when she is back in her cage. Today it took about 15 minutes to get her back in and my daughter is discouraged.
Can anyone give us some advice? How do we stop the biting and how can we get over this stubborn behaviour?
I am having to turn to the greater internet for advice.
My daughter has a budgie and she adores her bird. She has worked very hard to bond with her bird and they are now very cute and comfortable together.
We have 2 problems thought.
Problem 1. For some reason birdie is scared of her finger, which has stalled finger training. Anytime my daughter takes her tank close budgie gets aggressive and bites. But birdie is comfortable perching on her glasses, sitting on her head, shoulders and snuggling face to face. We have a dowel that we were using for training. She push the dowel into birdies chest and say "step up" until birdie was comfortable with that. Then she started moving her hand closer on the dowel slowly over weeks. As soon as her hand is close enough budgie bites.
Problem 2.
She is trained well to "step up" onto a dowel which my daughter uses to put her back in her cage. The smart little birdie has this figured out now. When my daughter goes to put her in her cage she flies to the top of her cage and will keep going on the perch but jumping off. My daughter has been very patient and always rewards her when she is back in her cage. Today it took about 15 minutes to get her back in and my daughter is discouraged.
Can anyone give us some advice? How do we stop the biting and how can we get over this stubborn behaviour?