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| My budgie, Ariel, had her for 6 months has been acting funny. Not in a sense of sick or anything, she's perfectly healthy, eats normally and everything, she just doesn't want my attention anymore or she refuses it. I tried letting her out of the cage, but she doesn't jump out by herself, you have to put your hand in there to let her come out. She's fine and she chirps and sings when she's in her cage when no one is bothering her. First, she freaks out and flies around her cage wildly [she needs her wings clipped, she can fly! ahh] until she's to the point of hyperventilating or having a heart attack. I finally got her out of her cage and she's latches on to my finger. It doesn't hurt at all, I'm used to getting bit by bigger birds [cockatiels, quakers, amazons] and it doesn't phase me anymore. But it felt like she didn't know what she was doing and she didn't bite down hard enough to cause any damage [just a beak impression] and she was wiggling her tongue around [it was cute in a way]. And when she got bored of what she was doing, she flew off and she wouldn't land until she was about to hit something [my TV, my bunnies cages, mirror, window, dresser]. It's a spacious room, but she didn't want my business. I tried grabbing her and she would take off again [yeah, i'm going to clip her wings, i promise that] even though she's breathing hard. She would try to bite, but nothing bad, just a bit irritating. Yeah, I was just wondering how I can get her to...in lameness terms, to "like me again" and be able to take her out. I don't want to have her hurt because she won't stay in one place and she ends up conking her head on something, I don't want her hurt. Every budgie I had didn't so much get along with me [mostly my sisters' fault because she right away put two female budgies in a cage together, no waiting period, and they were awfully mean that you couldn't take them out to socialize] and bit me a lot. I don't know how to make a budgie tolerate me more, I know they're nice birds and Ariel is really nice, she's just really skiddish. Sorry so long! Could be boring! =) Thanks if any help is given! I'm sure it's pretty obvious what the answer is, I just can't seem to figure it out!
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| Hi there, Yes, clip her wings if she's flying all "crazy" like. She might have hit a point where she has decided that she doesnt want you to take her out of her cage, and she will come out on her own terms. By the time she's been chased around her cage, or maybe in her mind "preyed" upon, youve just really made her mad as the dickens. I have personally experienced this with several different birds over the years. I hoped that helped a bit.
Stacy Shue
Blake Aviary
www.blakeaviary.com
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| I am having the same experience with my two parrakeets. They were sweet little birds and sometimes I can get one to get on my finger but the other just wont. I let them out of their cage a few nights ago and they couldn't fly very much (clipped wings is a must) but they would jump. Just work with her again and talk to her. Talk to her when you are cleaning her cage, when you feed and water her, try the finger thing, the work your way up again. If nothing else she might want a friend. they are socialble birds. Hope this helps. Nicole Bielby
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| Thanks! Hopefully it should work, she's really touchy [as a female as myself is! We're two of a kind.] and she loves squeaking and chirping and talking to all of my other animals in my room [4 guinea pigs, 2 rabbits and a hamster]. I thinking about getting another bird, but I don't know about a budgie. My sister tried that when her budgie got really really really mean and she tried adding another one and they were just violent with each other and fought often for food, water and perches [even though there was more than enough for both of them] and we weren't able to get them out because one would just continue to go after your hand and the other would run and when you got close, it would latch on to your hand and not let go for it's life [and that actually hurt! ouch!]. I do want to get another bird, preferably a bigger one or maybe another cockatiel [it's been almost a year since I lost my first baby, so I don't know how I'm going to handle it because he was my first pet.] I'm going to have to try all of these things! I don't want her to end up like the other ones we had, thanks!
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