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This is the story of Pico, a budgie that suffered from boredom big time for 3 years but who
joined and is now a very sociable member of our family. He is now 3
1/2.
When faced with a similar situation of adopting a budgie with little
experience dealing with humans, I would recommend doing what we did.
That is let him get used to his new environment by talking to him and greeting him regularly so
that he can get to know the people, and understand that we would do him no harm.
After an adjustment period, we had one of our budgie owner friends take him out of the cage for the first time so
that he could discover his new entire world in the house...and of course if he
didn't like it, it wasn't us who took him out.
At first he aggressively communicated his thoughts on leaving his cage
through the sharpness of his beak. To prevent wearing out the "other budgie
owners" we used "the blue glove" to tempt him outside
of his cage. He would leap on it and bite the *%*!) out of the thumb. Slowly, we got him used to us and put our hands around so that he
would see that they were harmless.... (ouch!). We put his blue glove
of fighting outside his cage on the ladder so he got used to going out and then
he didn't want to go back in.
The only time he is now in his closed cage is when we are at work. The minute we get home we
open the cage door and if we forget, he let's us know.
Our star, Pico, caught on the second step of his morning
ritual. He's just leaped down on the table from his
cage thinking he was invisible till we took his picture.
Ruffled feathers can always be smoothed with breakfast and he was the
first to be seated on the table. |
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Pico can be seen on his favorite perch
in the mornings, afternoons, and evenings in
the picture immediately below (Dan's view) and next below (Mom's
view).
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Mom is on record as follows
"You can see that I am going to test Tide's advertising claims on the
formerly "white-socks"."
Pico is very
friendly and usually comes to family members in the living room in the
morning. His route starts at his cage where
when he leaps down to the kitchen table, then to the floor (flying would
be too easy I guess, go figure!) and runs to the
living room where he yells till Dan or one of
us put down one foot for him to hop up on his
"tootsie-perch". |
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This is Daniel with his buddy on his
shoulder or Pico with his buddy under his feet. Dan
talks to his budgie who answers back. Pico was looking to see
where he would go and nuzzle next. |
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This is Pico's fighting stance. He
loves leaping out on his "blue glove of
fighting" and chomping on any dark
colored tee-shirt, particularly if it's his buddy Daniel
who's wearing it. |
Pico's Page 2
Pico
c/o Daniel Houle: dan.pico@videotron.ca
Copyright Dan, Debbie, and Jean Houle
2000 All rights reserved; contact for permission to
use.
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