Hi there,
As you've probably seen from my posts before, I have 2 Indian Ringnecks with very different personalities (not the issue here). I need help and advice more than anything else. Today was the worst day ever trying to get my birds in. I say birds one is easy you say step on when she's on her door and she'll go in no problem asked. The other my boy he's usually harder to get in but will eventually stay on me long enough that I can get him in quite easily. Today every time I brough him closer to the cage he'd fly off or try and get to a point of the cage where he thinks I can't reach. After going back and forth for an hour (maybe more) enticing him with different things he loves, I sadly had to resort to what I've seen called the "T-shirt/blanket method" and catch him that way. I've never done this to my birds before and I hated having to do it and now left with this horrible guilty feeling that I've broken my birds trust.
1) if I have lost my birds trust, how can I fix this because normally he comes to me takes a nut let's me stroke his head all sorts, we've never had this issue and I've never had to do this, but 1 I didn't wanna stress him out by keep getting him from the window and him flying away again/ being too tired / doing more harm than good
2) how can I fix this going forward, both my birds have had the same training etc but of course any bird owner knows 2 birds aren't the same (which I get and love) but I need a more suggestions on better ways to fix this
And lastly, just for more clarification, they had both had 2 and a half hours out of there cage prior to the hour trying to get them back in. So it wasn't that they hadn't had enough time out or anything like that.
I just need some advice and help on this, even if I have broken the trust of my bird (which was never my intention) I already feel bad enough right now so please no hate
As you've probably seen from my posts before, I have 2 Indian Ringnecks with very different personalities (not the issue here). I need help and advice more than anything else. Today was the worst day ever trying to get my birds in. I say birds one is easy you say step on when she's on her door and she'll go in no problem asked. The other my boy he's usually harder to get in but will eventually stay on me long enough that I can get him in quite easily. Today every time I brough him closer to the cage he'd fly off or try and get to a point of the cage where he thinks I can't reach. After going back and forth for an hour (maybe more) enticing him with different things he loves, I sadly had to resort to what I've seen called the "T-shirt/blanket method" and catch him that way. I've never done this to my birds before and I hated having to do it and now left with this horrible guilty feeling that I've broken my birds trust.
1) if I have lost my birds trust, how can I fix this because normally he comes to me takes a nut let's me stroke his head all sorts, we've never had this issue and I've never had to do this, but 1 I didn't wanna stress him out by keep getting him from the window and him flying away again/ being too tired / doing more harm than good
2) how can I fix this going forward, both my birds have had the same training etc but of course any bird owner knows 2 birds aren't the same (which I get and love) but I need a more suggestions on better ways to fix this
And lastly, just for more clarification, they had both had 2 and a half hours out of there cage prior to the hour trying to get them back in. So it wasn't that they hadn't had enough time out or anything like that.
I just need some advice and help on this, even if I have broken the trust of my bird (which was never my intention) I already feel bad enough right now so please no hate
