On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 04:35:16 +1100, foxidrive wrote:

Reposting under a different subject, to bore you again ;)


> We have a female lutino yellow budgie of about 4 years of age who is a real
> homebody, even though she has free access to the house.  She hardly goes
> any place except on the top of her cage and down the ladders and sticks
> around the edges.  This isn't such a surprise as our past three budgies
> liked their homes a lot and only one or two other spots.
> We hoped she'd become quite tame but she had quite a traumatic experience
> being introduced to the house and cage...   Penny, the budgie, is finger
> tame and loves to come onto my hand and forearm and is beginning to crawl
> up our sleeves to shit, I mean sit, on our shoulders, but she dislikes
> being touched anyplace at all except on the beak.
>
> Flying isn't quite second nature to her, and she has no confidence on
> landing on anything except her cage and our heads.
> Her feet are ok, so it's not a physical issue...  when I brought her home
> she escaped just as I was transferring her from the cardboard box to her
> cage and she spent the next 20 minutes flying around freaking out, not
> knowing how to land (straight from a small cage in a petshop) and when she
> did land on the carpet her claws were caught in the carpet fibres which was
> probably pretty distressing too - not to mention the curtains, falling
> behind cupboards and speakers, and here I was trying to catch her into the
> bargain (stupid of me, I know).  I suspect the entire episode gave her the
> heebie geebies about flight - but the bright side and that is she is
> unlikely to attempt to make a dash for freedom - though we are very careful
> about open doors and always keep external doors locked.
>
> Penny has a lovely disposition, though was very nippy to begin with, and
> really enjoys standing on my finger in front of the oscillating pedestal
> fan - she makes a sound like a gargle when she's happy and shakes her tail
> feathers in glee when the air rushes past her.
>
> She has lots of mirrors around the place, which she keeps constant company,
> so she's probably bonded to the pretty yellow budgie in them. :)
>
> For those that would like to meet Penny, here she is investigating a VHS
> video cassette case - her favourite game for a year or so was to throw them
> off the top of the TV and the top of her cage, and chew the paper ones to
> bits!!  Better that than the picture frames, we think. :)
>
> http://web.aanet.com.au/foxidrive/pics/penny009.jpg
>
> And here is Penny, looking like she's just refluffing her feathers, in her
> palacial manor.
>
> http://web.aanet.com.au/foxidrive/pics/penny010.jpg
>
> I just subscribed to this group and enjoyed reading the tips and messages,
> so this is my introduction of Penny the Wonder Budgie!


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