Budgies.Love Birds.Parrots

[Accy cyclist]

I'm toying with the idea of getting a budgie as a pet(what else would you want one for?). Are they still popular i wonder? I had a couple of Love Birds years ago, I kept them in quite a large cage and let them have a fly around the living room every day. Both of them escaped outside, fortunately not at the same time,so they both came back due to the others calling sound. They even had babies together. Anyway,the question is do any of you have caged birds as pets and if so what bird is it?

 

[Accy cyclist]

Looking at this picture,it looks like you can even take them on holiday.

 

[Mo1959]

I'm toying with the idea of getting a budgie as a pet(what else would you want one for?). Are they still popular i wonder? I had a couple of Love Birds years ago, I kept them in quite a large cage and let them have a fly around the living room every day. Both of them escaped outside, fortunately not at the same time,so they both came back due to the others calling sound. They even had babies together. Anyway,the question is do any of you have caged birds as pets and if so what bird is it?

Not for a long time, but I was very lucky with my first ever budgie. He was a little cracker. Very friendly and wanted to be with you and involved in things all the time. He was let out of his cage first thing in the morning and we had to almost chase him back in at night. Sadly, they are not all the same though. The second one never got very tame no matter how much we handled him.

A parrot is a big committment as they live a long time and are intelligent so need to be given lots of attention or they get bored and can get destructive and even self harm so I would think about it carefully.

 

[Accy cyclist]

[QUOTE 4787805, member: 259"]If you good at catching them you can have one of the green parakeets that sit in the tree outside my bedroom window and screech their heads off at 5 o'clock every morning. In fact you could have all of the feckers.[/QUOTE]
Yes,catch on for me and i'll have it.

 

[Accy cyclist]

A parrot is a big committment as they live a long time and are intelligent so need to be given lots of attention or they get bored and can get destructive and even self harm so I would think about it carefully.

This makes me think of the African Grey i used to see on my window cleaning round. The poor thing was stuck in a cage all day,in some dope dealers house. It looked ok with all its feathers intact,but the house stunk of weed. I bet it didn't know what it was like to breath fresh air!

 

[Profpointy]

My brother in law had a parrot, and though it was a splendid creature, I'm convinced it was not a happy bird and not thriving. It did a lot of the repetitive behaviour things that intelligent captive animals tend to do when bored. It also literally destroyed their kitchen by taking huge bites out of the cabinets. To be honest I'd not want to keep a parrot in a domestic set up, at least not one which is a flock bird. He'd previously been a pub parrot and elsewhere I've seen pub parrots apparently thriving as the constant comming and going and attention kept them occupied. Dunno about budgies, maybe they're more easily amused.

 

[Surlydave]

Apparently the Norwegian Blue is very easy to look after.

 

[vickster]

Apparently the Norwegian Blue is very easy to look after.

Especially suitable as the OP can't live too far from Bolton

 

[jefmcg]

[QUOTE 4787957, member: 9609"]Go outside and watch a bird flying and take notice how much space it is using - now you will need a cage at least as big as that.[/QUOTE]
Go to Australia and watch a flock of hundreds of cockatoos flying from one horizon to the other, noisily talking to each other. England it not big enough.

 

[jefmcg]

Also, my aunt had a pair of love birds. One them murdered the other, and was a much happier bird living alone. These are too subtle creatures to cage.

 

[Tim Hall]

Go to Australia and watch a flock of hundreds of cockatoos flying from one horizon to the other, noisily talking to each other. England it not big enough.

Go to Richmond Park, or most of sarf west lunnon and see parakeets.

 

[wheresthetorch]

My wife has a couple of falcons, but they're not exactly pets . . .

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Please don't incarcerate a parrot in solitary confinement for life - a life that's bound be be longer than yours.

 

[jefmcg]

Go to Richmond Park, or most of sarf west lunnon and see parakeets.

Those pissy little sky hedgehogs flitting between trees are nothing like a large flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos or galahs that you hear appoaching minutes before you can see them, and continue flying towards the sunset until they are out of sight and eventually out of hearing.

 

[wheresthetorch]

Please don't incarcerate a parrot in solitary confinement for life - a life that's bound be be longer than yours.

Or keep a dog in a house and garden all its life, with just a daily walk outside and no other canine company, when it could be running free in the hills with the pack, fighting, mating and eating under the leaden skies.