SassyNuggs
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- Joined
- 10/16/21
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- Holly
Hello! Hoping for some advice. I'm a relatively new bird owner, I've cared for many feral birds in my time but have just came into having a Fischer's Lovebird. The pet shop that she came from isn't the best, and their birds are often in cramped conditions the size of a shoebox with one perch. The bird was on its own, as the other two lovebirds it was with had been sold. It looked really stressed and I felt obligated to give the baby a home after much desire to have a bird myself anyway.
As far as I know she was born in December 2020, and though the sex is unknown I am assuming she is a she. I've had her since July of this year.
She was very frightened of me and my partner at first and would dart about her cage to be as far away as possible. Over time we've gotten closer and we can put our heads against the cage and she's fine, and if we poke our fingers through she comes for a nibble. We can put our hands in the cage with seeds and she'll happily take them but will not stand on our hands. She'll investigate our hands through nibbling but has never stood on them.
We find it difficult letting her out as we struggle to get her back in. If we have five hours spare we let her out and by the end of that time she'll be hungry enough to go back to her bowl, but outside of that we can't go anywhere near her when she's out. She only wants to be on high areas like curtain rails.
I feel like so little progress is being made with hand-taming and I don't know what more we can do. It's maybe just a gradual slowburn process, but I feel like I've hit a brick wall. I know she's had a traumatic start being grabbed in boxes and thrown into unusual situations.
As far as I know she was born in December 2020, and though the sex is unknown I am assuming she is a she. I've had her since July of this year.
She was very frightened of me and my partner at first and would dart about her cage to be as far away as possible. Over time we've gotten closer and we can put our heads against the cage and she's fine, and if we poke our fingers through she comes for a nibble. We can put our hands in the cage with seeds and she'll happily take them but will not stand on our hands. She'll investigate our hands through nibbling but has never stood on them.
We find it difficult letting her out as we struggle to get her back in. If we have five hours spare we let her out and by the end of that time she'll be hungry enough to go back to her bowl, but outside of that we can't go anywhere near her when she's out. She only wants to be on high areas like curtain rails.
I feel like so little progress is being made with hand-taming and I don't know what more we can do. It's maybe just a gradual slowburn process, but I feel like I've hit a brick wall. I know she's had a traumatic start being grabbed in boxes and thrown into unusual situations.
