Hi,
first of all, I would like to once again say big thank you to everyone for your help, advice and sharing. I really appreciate all of your replies. They were and still are very helpfull to me.
Now, the update. So, after a lot of thinking and a lot of talking with my family (here I would like to say that my mother should become a saint, really. I called her at least once a day (usually twice) to tell her my thouthts, to talk with her about pros and cons, and so on. And she endured it with great patience. I was fed up with myself but she wasn't and was listening to me anyway). So, after a lot of thinking and a lot of talking I decided to go to the breeder, talk to him and make a decision. I found the breeder with good opinions from Polish forums and made the appointment. I bought cheap cage just in case because I wasn't sure if I will take a bird. The appointment was only for conversation.
I went, I talked, and... I ended up with TAG. TAG!!!! Not Amazon. TAG!!!. Five months TAG, male. How did this happen?
I'm quite reasonable person. I really tend to think before doing especially with big decisions. But this time my reason seemed to go on vacation and decided to stop working for a while.
Anyway, I ended up with TAG and this was one of my best decisions ever. The same day I ordered a proper cage.
We named him Edgar (my daughter wanted this name because she loves Edgar Allan Poe). We have been living together with Edgar for over a month now and he is wonderfull. Really.
He is smart, fun, curious, loving, gentle, smart, nice, beautiful, smart, easygoing, and did I mention smart?
He likes our training sesions. He really does. He is fully flighted bird and we train on my desk. He can fly off very easily, but he doesn't. And he likes beeing praised. He listens so intently when I tell him how smart he is, how quickly he learns, how beautiful he is. He sits on my hand, or on the desk, looks ad me, pins his eyes and listens. So far he learnt step up, step down, high four (like high five but he has four fingers after all), hi (whet he puts his paw on my hand), turn (when he does full turn around himself), bow and come (it is when I want him to fly to me). The last one is quite funny, because Edgar doesn't always want to come when I call him. When he doesn't want to come, I show him a clicker (which is bright yellow). He knows that clicker means reward (sunflower seed) and comes immediately.
When he stays home alone, he is very calm in his cage. He plays a little with his toys, eats some pellets but mostly he just goes into his Zen mode, when he sits on the perch and thinks about... well something important, I'm sure. I observe him throuhg camera.
When I'm back, I let him out and he plays with me or on his stand.
He is quite open minded regarding new foods. Doesn't mean he likes everything but at least he tries everything I offer. At the breeder he was eating only seeds (mostly sunflower) and bananas. I converted him into pellets (Harrison's High Potency Coarse). It went quite well, took about three weeks and now he loves the pellets. And some vegetables too (like green peas for example). Sunflower seeds are only for rewards during the traing now.
As for new toys he is a little hesitant at first and needs some time before accepting new thing.
Each day he is showing more of his personality. At first he was quiet and very polite. Now not so quiet, more curious, more brave and well... more vocal if he doesn't like something (i.e. beeing put into his cage when I'm living for work). He is growling (really, almost like a dog) and nipping my fingers. I tell him to stop nipping my fingers and he does, but he has to make some growling comment about it.
Now I will finish. I noticed I tend to talk too much if I talk about Edgar. I alrealdy asked all of my collegues to tell me to stop if I talk too much about my Edgar.
Anyway, thank you all for every bit of help. Capt. T. your video is a great inspiration for me. I will try to recreate some of the tricks from your video, ok?
Last thing: may I stay here or should I move to African Grey Alley?
first of all, I would like to once again say big thank you to everyone for your help, advice and sharing. I really appreciate all of your replies. They were and still are very helpfull to me.
Now, the update. So, after a lot of thinking and a lot of talking with my family (here I would like to say that my mother should become a saint, really. I called her at least once a day (usually twice) to tell her my thouthts, to talk with her about pros and cons, and so on. And she endured it with great patience. I was fed up with myself but she wasn't and was listening to me anyway). So, after a lot of thinking and a lot of talking I decided to go to the breeder, talk to him and make a decision. I found the breeder with good opinions from Polish forums and made the appointment. I bought cheap cage just in case because I wasn't sure if I will take a bird. The appointment was only for conversation.
I went, I talked, and... I ended up with TAG. TAG!!!! Not Amazon. TAG!!!. Five months TAG, male. How did this happen?
I'm quite reasonable person. I really tend to think before doing especially with big decisions. But this time my reason seemed to go on vacation and decided to stop working for a while.
Anyway, I ended up with TAG and this was one of my best decisions ever. The same day I ordered a proper cage.
We named him Edgar (my daughter wanted this name because she loves Edgar Allan Poe). We have been living together with Edgar for over a month now and he is wonderfull. Really.
He is smart, fun, curious, loving, gentle, smart, nice, beautiful, smart, easygoing, and did I mention smart?
He likes our training sesions. He really does. He is fully flighted bird and we train on my desk. He can fly off very easily, but he doesn't. And he likes beeing praised. He listens so intently when I tell him how smart he is, how quickly he learns, how beautiful he is. He sits on my hand, or on the desk, looks ad me, pins his eyes and listens. So far he learnt step up, step down, high four (like high five but he has four fingers after all), hi (whet he puts his paw on my hand), turn (when he does full turn around himself), bow and come (it is when I want him to fly to me). The last one is quite funny, because Edgar doesn't always want to come when I call him. When he doesn't want to come, I show him a clicker (which is bright yellow). He knows that clicker means reward (sunflower seed) and comes immediately.
When he stays home alone, he is very calm in his cage. He plays a little with his toys, eats some pellets but mostly he just goes into his Zen mode, when he sits on the perch and thinks about... well something important, I'm sure. I observe him throuhg camera.
When I'm back, I let him out and he plays with me or on his stand.
He is quite open minded regarding new foods. Doesn't mean he likes everything but at least he tries everything I offer. At the breeder he was eating only seeds (mostly sunflower) and bananas. I converted him into pellets (Harrison's High Potency Coarse). It went quite well, took about three weeks and now he loves the pellets. And some vegetables too (like green peas for example). Sunflower seeds are only for rewards during the traing now.
As for new toys he is a little hesitant at first and needs some time before accepting new thing.
Each day he is showing more of his personality. At first he was quiet and very polite. Now not so quiet, more curious, more brave and well... more vocal if he doesn't like something (i.e. beeing put into his cage when I'm living for work). He is growling (really, almost like a dog) and nipping my fingers. I tell him to stop nipping my fingers and he does, but he has to make some growling comment about it.
Now I will finish. I noticed I tend to talk too much if I talk about Edgar. I alrealdy asked all of my collegues to tell me to stop if I talk too much about my Edgar.
Anyway, thank you all for every bit of help. Capt. T. your video is a great inspiration for me. I will try to recreate some of the tricks from your video, ok?
Last thing: may I stay here or should I move to African Grey Alley?
))
Rain
