Post by astrotom on Oct 19, 2012 22:40:52 GMT 10
Good afternoon,
My name is Tom and I've just joined the site. I hate to jump straight into a new thread straight away, but I'm in a bit of a pickle.
I've always been a bird lover but due to a phobia of my mothers, my hands on expieriences with them were always rather limited. A few years ago I gained a rescued budgie that was pretty badly assaulted rather regularly by his previous owner. He came into my care because I had grew up on a "rehab" farm for agressive and abused animals. We basically took in the horses, dogs and cats that were deemed unfit for rehoming by the pounds and alike, and over the course of months or years, we turned them into fantastic pets for people.
It took me a while to gain the budgies (Stewart) trust, but in a matter of 5 months I had him playing on the washing line while I hung out the washing, showering with me, and dancing along on the steering wheel when I'd go for a drive. A horrible accident that I'm still not over occurred (due to a thoughtless friend of my housemate) and I sadly lost stewie.
That was five years ago, and in that time I've managed to rehabilitate 4 budgies, a love bird and a cockatiel, and found them fantastic homes.
Last week I decided that after going through some recent trauma that forced me to leave the military, I'd love a feathery friend to help rehabilitate me. Today I stumbled on an ad for an IRN that's about 6 months old. His owner got him from a pet store and was told it would be "easy to keep tame" but he obviously wasn't prepared for it, and its been left in a cage and put up for sale. It broke my heart thinking that this beautiful bird might be left in that cage for the rest of its life, or worse, dumped.
I've always been wary of the larger birds, since I have very little expierience with them, and though I've read SO much about IRN, I worry about being one of those people that doesn't know how to handle it and ends up ruining the bird.
I've been reading about IRN since I was in my early teens, so in we'll aware of their teenage issues, and their need for calmness, as well as dietary needs.
I want to know if anyone has some hints or tips for me. Thinks me perusing this bird is an awful idea, or could tell me if I've worked myself up into a tizz about medium sized parrots and should just calm down haha.
Thank you for reading my essay :-P
Tom
Melbourne.
My name is Tom and I've just joined the site. I hate to jump straight into a new thread straight away, but I'm in a bit of a pickle.
I've always been a bird lover but due to a phobia of my mothers, my hands on expieriences with them were always rather limited. A few years ago I gained a rescued budgie that was pretty badly assaulted rather regularly by his previous owner. He came into my care because I had grew up on a "rehab" farm for agressive and abused animals. We basically took in the horses, dogs and cats that were deemed unfit for rehoming by the pounds and alike, and over the course of months or years, we turned them into fantastic pets for people.
It took me a while to gain the budgies (Stewart) trust, but in a matter of 5 months I had him playing on the washing line while I hung out the washing, showering with me, and dancing along on the steering wheel when I'd go for a drive. A horrible accident that I'm still not over occurred (due to a thoughtless friend of my housemate) and I sadly lost stewie.
That was five years ago, and in that time I've managed to rehabilitate 4 budgies, a love bird and a cockatiel, and found them fantastic homes.
Last week I decided that after going through some recent trauma that forced me to leave the military, I'd love a feathery friend to help rehabilitate me. Today I stumbled on an ad for an IRN that's about 6 months old. His owner got him from a pet store and was told it would be "easy to keep tame" but he obviously wasn't prepared for it, and its been left in a cage and put up for sale. It broke my heart thinking that this beautiful bird might be left in that cage for the rest of its life, or worse, dumped.
I've always been wary of the larger birds, since I have very little expierience with them, and though I've read SO much about IRN, I worry about being one of those people that doesn't know how to handle it and ends up ruining the bird.
I've been reading about IRN since I was in my early teens, so in we'll aware of their teenage issues, and their need for calmness, as well as dietary needs.
I want to know if anyone has some hints or tips for me. Thinks me perusing this bird is an awful idea, or could tell me if I've worked myself up into a tizz about medium sized parrots and should just calm down haha.
Thank you for reading my essay :-P
Tom
Melbourne.
