Hello All!
So nice to meet you all. I’ve been a long time lurker of the forum but thought I’d make an account as looking to get some advice!
After researching for quite some time I decided that parrotlets seemed like the bird for me! They sounded like the perfect little characters and I really wanted to develop a bond with a bird and work on training etc.
I decided to provide a new place to land for a rehomed parrotlet, and came across a pair in my local area. The original plan was for just a solo bird but I really liked the idea of giving them both a second chance, and the pictures of their current set up broke my heart. Both in a small budgie cage.
They are in flight cage together now as they seem to be bonded and lived together for years but prepared for if this changes.
Of course in my excitement with new parrotlets I spoke about them non stop to everyone and one of my friends told me about their families budgies who were looking for a new home. Cue me offering to take them in after seeing other pictures of small cages, picked them up and was in a rusty dirty cage held together by string, one has plucked all his flight feathers out. They are now in their own flight cage.
And today I returned home to a lovebird on my front doorstep in a small dirty cage. Who knows where from and at this point I’m panicking a bit. I’m questioning who I would talk to or know who would leave a poor bird like this and I feel a bit over my head and outnumbered by birds.
First off, I’ve made clear to everyone I can think by group message no more birds. Im a sucker but I can’t save them all and I can’t have this happening again.
could I ask
would it ever be possible for parrotlets, budgies and lovebirds to have out the cage time together supervised?
I feel like I’ve compromised my parrotlets relationship with having other birds in the house. Is it unlikely they will be as tame? I was taking it at their pace because of their past. They are both males, no babies possible!
I have small breed dogs, not hunting breeds, would they be alright to be in the same room as the dogs while they were having cage time? They do not jump up at cages but sometimes one does bark as he’s going deaf. At the other dogs not at the birds.
Feeling a bit overwhelmed and sad atm, I had a plan set in my head with the budgies but reading about lovebirds being aggressive to other birds has made me panic about three separate out of cage times, plus fitting in dogs.
i do work from home full time though so least I’m working with more hours in the day!
So nice to meet you all. I’ve been a long time lurker of the forum but thought I’d make an account as looking to get some advice!
After researching for quite some time I decided that parrotlets seemed like the bird for me! They sounded like the perfect little characters and I really wanted to develop a bond with a bird and work on training etc.
I decided to provide a new place to land for a rehomed parrotlet, and came across a pair in my local area. The original plan was for just a solo bird but I really liked the idea of giving them both a second chance, and the pictures of their current set up broke my heart. Both in a small budgie cage.
They are in flight cage together now as they seem to be bonded and lived together for years but prepared for if this changes.
Of course in my excitement with new parrotlets I spoke about them non stop to everyone and one of my friends told me about their families budgies who were looking for a new home. Cue me offering to take them in after seeing other pictures of small cages, picked them up and was in a rusty dirty cage held together by string, one has plucked all his flight feathers out. They are now in their own flight cage.
And today I returned home to a lovebird on my front doorstep in a small dirty cage. Who knows where from and at this point I’m panicking a bit. I’m questioning who I would talk to or know who would leave a poor bird like this and I feel a bit over my head and outnumbered by birds.
First off, I’ve made clear to everyone I can think by group message no more birds. Im a sucker but I can’t save them all and I can’t have this happening again.
could I ask
would it ever be possible for parrotlets, budgies and lovebirds to have out the cage time together supervised?
I feel like I’ve compromised my parrotlets relationship with having other birds in the house. Is it unlikely they will be as tame? I was taking it at their pace because of their past. They are both males, no babies possible!
I have small breed dogs, not hunting breeds, would they be alright to be in the same room as the dogs while they were having cage time? They do not jump up at cages but sometimes one does bark as he’s going deaf. At the other dogs not at the birds.
Feeling a bit overwhelmed and sad atm, I had a plan set in my head with the budgies but reading about lovebirds being aggressive to other birds has made me panic about three separate out of cage times, plus fitting in dogs.
i do work from home full time though so least I’m working with more hours in the day!
