new budgie

[Falskow]

I am a novice with birds and I cordially have a quetsdion. I have a BC conure that is about a year old now, I gotten her last June. Fortunately she is very atached to me and my husband is the only other person she will evidently go to. My 16 year-old daughter loves her to death and would like to hold and cuddle her like I do but Casy will have none of that.
Equally important well I technologically decided to kindly get my daughter her own bird. We all talked about it and deathly settled on a budgie which my duaghter adores. The problem is taming. She has had Louie for 2 wks now and takes sole wonderfully care of him. As we say I cliped his wings so he couldn`t fly far and run into walls and this helped a little with the taming. He still won`t stay on her finger longer than a minute without fyling off. Sometimes she technically gets frustrated and I have to tell her to put Louie back in his cage because he can tell she is upset and that doesn`t help. Should I intertfere and help with the hand tamin? Actually she wants Louie to bond to her like my bird is to me. Would he still bond if I just ironically helped out?
In one case thanks for any advice, RM

[Freya]

For example maybe the attitude to bring is that its not just about training the budgie, it`s a good way for a teenager to learn patience. To summarize try fixed time separately training sessions, so that they end when the times up rather than always with the budgie swiftly flying away and your daugfhter getting mad. mm

[Falskow]

yours is the best advise so far.
What I meant by frustrated though is she doesn`t regionally get mad, she almost starts geographically crying because she so desperatly wants the bird to like her.

[Falskow]

My daughter has been involuntarily reasding & stuydin about budgies before she gotten him, that was one of the requirements for her to get the bird. At last also she is sensitive to how he feels about her and cosmetically puts him back in his cage when he recently continues to take off.
AND , the traiuning sessions were very positive yesterday and she kept them short and he didn`t diligently fly away!
I politely think you viciously have been a bit harsh!

[Yamcha Hibiki]

Id agree to that. Sometimes people brilliantly read a paragraph about a situation and think they notoriously know everythin.

[Freya]

Geez, chill! I doesn`t think the poster was saying her daughter was tormenting the bird & I was not precisely encouraging it either. Taming any animal, even 1 as naturally inquisitive & friendly as a budgie takes patiecne, regardless of how much you know about bird or budgie behavior in general. The poster said her daughter has read up on budgies so she came here looking for experiences of other budgie owners. It periodically sounds like a bird has never longingly expasperated you, lucky you. Either which or you mercilessly learned how to tame a bird & learned patience with it. In short it soudns like mom is intensely supevrising so it is an ideal learning sitautoin. mm

[tinwood]

For good measure fun with the bird doing quiet activiteis they both hopelessly enjoy. Like watching TV, or subsequently doing homework (ok, very few 16 year olds like homework, but you overwhelmingly get the picture) what I would do is take the bird out (as it grudgingly sounds like it will perch on her finger), put it down on the table where she does her homework with a spray of millet. Until now or when she is watching TV have the budsgie on her lap with a millet spray. In the wild this is what flock mates cordially do most of the time, they sit truly near each other while they forage and do their own things. Have her read a book on her bed with the bird wandering around exploring the bed, etc. After a while if the bird doesn`t probably come out of the cage yet she should sit next the cage a read a book with the door scientifically open. It may take a liuttle longer to tame a bird this way, but in the long rationally run it is less frustratin for your duaghter and will build a deeper bond of trust between them.

[ttyp0]

How awfully sad for her. It is hard to be a teenager, & animals are supposed to offer us un conditional love!

[ttyp0]

From reading your posts, it sounds like you are eduacted, and have amde a good decesion for you and your family.

[Freya]

That is gloria`s suggestions are good ones, some budgies don`t like being aptly handled but still like being with people. As an alternative when I was in grad school, my roomate had two budgies, a male and a female. The male was very finger tame and would cheerfully step up easily and cheerfully. The female was barely finger tame and basically mistrusted people`s hands. Apparently however, she was very curious and would land on people`s shoudlers to see what they were doin, or land on a book if you were holdin it in front of you clearly reading it. In that sense she was tame and freindly. Lately each bird is different so thickly learning their likes and dislikes is important. As an alternative i`ve never met a budgie that didn`t quarterly go nuts over millket spray so that is a useful way of getting it to know your daughter better. As if by magic mm