Kiwibird
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- Jul 12, 2012
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- Parrots
- 1 BFA- Kiwi. Hatch circa 98', forever home with us Dec. 08'
Our landlords (husband and wife) are very nice people and lucky for us, are bird people too (even better, their bird makes more noise than ours so I don't have to panic when Kiwi gets a bug up his butt to holler
)! They have an IRN. I was actually watching him the past few days while they were out of town (and the little devil nipped me when I tried handing him a treat:52:, but I digress). They got home last night, and I ran into the wife this afternoon while I was outside with Kiwi letting him enjoy the sunshine after a bath. She has always wanted to hold him, but Kiwi isn't fond of strangers and really won't go to anyone but me or my husband. He is especially not fond of women.
She asked again if she could hold him and stuck out her arm and when I told him to step down, he actually went to her
! Her bird is often up on her shoulder, so she had her arm positioned in such a way he could have climbed up there, but he didn't. He climbed to her elbow and them back down (elbow is where he's been trained to stop). I was so proud of him!
He stood there for a good minute, very calm, didn't get flashy, minded his training and put his little foot up signaling he wanted to come back to mommy when he was done sitting on the scary strangers arm. I think getting him out in public more (albeit in the bird backpack) where he's around all kinds of people who come up to him is making him more social and less fearful of strangers. Though, I am not just going to let just anyone handle him because he behaved himself this once. Another "bird person" understands birds can bite, other simply curious people...not so much and Kiwi still has an aggressive streak in him.But overall YAY FOR MY KIWI!
)! They have an IRN. I was actually watching him the past few days while they were out of town (and the little devil nipped me when I tried handing him a treat:52:, but I digress). They got home last night, and I ran into the wife this afternoon while I was outside with Kiwi letting him enjoy the sunshine after a bath. She has always wanted to hold him, but Kiwi isn't fond of strangers and really won't go to anyone but me or my husband. He is especially not fond of women.She asked again if she could hold him and stuck out her arm and when I told him to step down, he actually went to her
! Her bird is often up on her shoulder, so she had her arm positioned in such a way he could have climbed up there, but he didn't. He climbed to her elbow and them back down (elbow is where he's been trained to stop). I was so proud of him! He stood there for a good minute, very calm, didn't get flashy, minded his training and put his little foot up signaling he wanted to come back to mommy when he was done sitting on the scary strangers arm. I think getting him out in public more (albeit in the bird backpack) where he's around all kinds of people who come up to him is making him more social and less fearful of strangers. Though, I am not just going to let just anyone handle him because he behaved himself this once. Another "bird person" understands birds can bite, other simply curious people...not so much and Kiwi still has an aggressive streak in him.But overall YAY FOR MY KIWI!
