Hello, My Amazon Athena is 6 months old, so got her about 2 months ago from a exotic only very reputable pet shop. I have moved very slow with her, she now loves coming to work with me, and car rides. She also gives kisses, and loves to start yelling and laughing when I hide on the side of her...

Ive had my bird for almost a year now. My parents gave it to me to keep me company. Recently I've decided to try and tame/train him (I'm a little late on that yes, but I'm aware it isn't impossible). Sometimes when i try to take him out of the cage, he either ignores it completely or bites me...

Hey there everyone! I've been having some trouble training my male cockatiel. A little backstory: I got my first tiel named Baby just a little while ago (back in July 2015) from a friend at work. He said she was too loud and he didn't want to put up with it anymore. I had researched a ton on...

Hi guys, here in this video you can listen and train your finch to sing like a chambion. Enzoy,and don't forget to like,share and subscribe my video :)

My budgie is extremely attached to his cage. He comes out of the cage all the time but he doesn't come off the top. I have found that when I take him off the cage and put him on my desk his is 100% tame (I took him off with a perch.) Is this the right way of doing things? And i have been keeping...

My budgie has issues leaving his cage and i was wondering, because grabbing is not acceptable, if scooping him up would work. Like coming underneath him and cupping my hands and just scooping him up. I cannot get him off his cage and I was hoping not to have to use a perch.

When he is in or on his cage he won't let me touch him.But when he flies off he'll willing climb onto my hand and stay there so i know hes tame. One article i read said i should towel him and take him out of the cage but that doesn't sound right. How should i bond with my budgie if he never gets...

I feel like my budgie might be afraid of hands but he still lets me hand feed him in, on, and off his cage. He won't let me get near him in or on his cage without food, but away from the cage he's completely fine. What's going on here?

He comes out of the cage on his own but almost always refuses help from me unless i have food, and when he is in or on his cage he will not let me touch him without food. Yet, when he is away from his cage or in another room he is 100% tame and he preens and sleeps and eats and everything is...

Good evening! My name is Sydney and I've just signed up, checking in from the Golden State! The pictures are my African Ringneck Parakeet, Gogol, and two of my hens, Honeybird (with her adopted babies) and Penny. I am the proud animommy of 2 dogs, a cat, my Ringneck, and 6 beautiful hens...

A week ago I bought a 10 week old cockatiel (we think it is a male) and at first he was terrified of of us. The breeders said they were hand fed and would step up if you had a white blanket over your hand. I tried this three days after we put him in his cage and he freaked out of me, flailing...

Question: so your brand new baby Birdy wants to mouth at your fingers and hands. I figure this is probably okay because they don't have hands and this is how they explore their world (but, maybe I'm wrong). But the exploring starts getting harder and harder. So...what to do now? Shake your hand...

Im not sure if anyone has experience this but when I go visit my B&G at Golden Cockatoo I typically hold him while sitting and he loves it, but sometimes he either ends up jumping off or slips off me and ends up on the ground. Now he doesn't hurt himself I've very gentle but it seems as though...

Hello! About 3 months ago we got a young-ish female cockatiel. She is fully grown but they said she was only about 4 months old or so, which means she's still under a year old now. She had no training but since we got her she has become tame enough to step up (although she won't come near me if...

I found this while looking for other methods of taming my pigeon, as the "patience" way is not working in terms of how tame i want him to be: Hands On

I'm wondering what you use as training treats...? My boy loves millet but it's *everywhere*... I find it not easy to use as a training treat for that reason. His breeder sounded appalled that I gave him millet, but I don't give him a spray. I give him small pieces I break off. It's not...

I have an adult male Frillback pigeon whom I rescued. His previous owner did not want his birds anymore so he let them go and left, this one wouldnt leave so I ended up with the sweet heart. I began taming excersises using negative reinforcement, as positive reinforcement would not work with...

Hello all. I brought home my ringneck, Yoshi a month and a half ago. He comes out of his cage on his own, and is pretty content on my shoulder. The problem is that he does not really like my fingers, so when he's perched on them, he bites really hard until I put him on my shoulder :bash:. Is...

Hi, I'm new here--I started this account to get some advice on a situation I'm having with my partner's bird. I hope I'm posting correctly. To be honest, I am so unbelievably exhausted by our bird situation that I can barely see straight. Here is my story: I have been with my boyfriend for 5...

I've been told by several people about how to get my new lennie used to me. Someone told me to just pick them up from the cage forcefully and place them on your shoulder, but I feel like I'm doing more harm than good. My lennie doesn't bite, but I don't think she enjoys being "man-handled"...