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This thread makes me have hope & feel better! When I was a kid we had a cockatiel that was in love with our dog (would follow her around, sing to her, and pluck out her whiskers… she was a very patient dog). One day as the dog was going by the door, someone came in and the bird flew out the door 🙁 We all tried to get him back and brought the dog out etc… for hours until he finally flew off 🙁 I used to dream about finding him and catching him, so maybe somebody did. He was a sweetie and Virginia winters are no good for little cockatiels, so I think I’ll choose to believe that somebody took him in.
Dragonmedley: Any luck with the blue ‘keet?
boskydragon wrote:This thread makes me have hope & feel better! When I was a kid we had a cockatiel that was in love with our dog (would follow her around, sing to her, and pluck out her whiskers… she was a very patient dog). One day as the dog was going by the door, someone came in and the bird flew out the door 🙁 We all tried to get him back and brought the dog out etc… for hours until he finally flew off 🙁 I used to dream about finding him and catching him, so maybe somebody did. He was a sweetie and Virginia winters are no good for little cockatiels, so I think I’ll choose to believe that somebody took him in.
Dragonmedley: Any luck with the blue ‘keet?
I am sure that your bird found another aviary or went to a human for food when he got hungry. It is amazing how these guys find my aviary. I’m sure every lost bird flys till it hears more of its kind and joins them, or finds a person who will feed them.Here is how we catch birds:
We use a large metal cage propped up with a stick. Birds walk under cage, we pull the stick out with a string, and the cage falls over the bird. A door at the top of the cage allows you to reach in and grab the bird(s) inside.
He sort of looks like a parakeet I use to have. But he had a full black tail. Till he flew away. Twice. Thanks mom. First time we got him back 2 weeks after he flew away. He was down the street (WEIRD story on how the people who had him found out we lost him). The second time he probably died since it was dusk and during a colder time of the year.
And it’s been so long, I’ve forgotten how they smell.
Melody wrote:Don’t parakeets smell neat? I was noticing it while I was holding him.
:D:D:D I LOOOOVE the way birds smell!! It’s sort of musty and comforting. It reminds me a bit of peanuts. I used to stuff my face in my parakeet’s feathers all the time. LOL poor thing! ;P
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-J R R TolkienA few years ago a stray cockatiel was found after a serious windstorm had ripped through our town. She ended up at my workplace. We put the word out but nobody claimed her; she checked out OK medically, so I took her home. She started out as a hissy shy bird addicted to seed; now she is eating pellets, and is a bossy, brazen, hissy fat bird. After watching her first attempt at flight in the living room (which described a perfect ballistic course that left her plastered to the block face of the chimney), we named her Rock. 😆
She’s far from sweet and bullies the other cockatiel on occasion, but she’s a decent little soul all the same. I’m just glad she wasn’t much of a flier when she escaped, or she might have ended up out in the desert, and that would have been the end of her. A cockatiel in good physical shape can fly even with clipped wings. Our birds are flighted because of the cat, but we have a strict two-doors policy which seems to be working out well. Rock turns corners like a fully loaded semi, so if she ever got loose again she’d do a straight line clear to Nevada.
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boskydragon wrote:
This thread makes me have hope & feel better! When I was a kid we had a cockatiel that was in love with our dog (would follow her around, sing to her, and pluck out her whiskers… she was a very patient dog). One day as the dog was going by the door, someone came in and the bird flew out the door We all tried to get him back and brought the dog out etc… for hours until he finally flew off I used to dream about finding him and catching him, so maybe somebody did. He was a sweetie and Virginia winters are no good for little cockatiels, so I think I’ll choose to believe that somebody took him in.I am sure that your bird found another aviary or went to a human for food when he got hungry. It is amazing how these guys find my aviary. I’m sure every lost bird flys till it hears more of its kind and joins them, or finds a person who will feed them.
🙂 Thanks! Of course, my 12 yr old self still spent many tearful nights over this guy! *sigh*, maybe the folks with the aviary had a black dog too… 🙂Barrdwing wrote:A few years ago a stray cockatiel was found after a serious windstorm had ripped through our town. She ended up at my workplace. We put the word out but nobody claimed her; she checked out OK medically, so I took her home. She started out as a hissy shy bird addicted to seed; now she is eating pellets, and is a bossy, brazen, hissy fat bird. After watching her first attempt at flight in the living room (which described a perfect ballistic course that left her plastered to the block face of the chimney), we named her Rock. 😆
She’s far from sweet and bullies the other cockatiel on occasion, but she’s a decent little soul all the same. I’m just glad she wasn’t much of a flier when she escaped, or she might have ended up out in the desert, and that would have been the end of her. A cockatiel in good physical shape can fly even with clipped wings. Our birds are flighted because of the cat, but we have a strict two-doors policy which seems to be working out well. Rock turns corners like a fully loaded semi, so if she ever got loose again she’d do a straight line clear to Nevada.
what is a 2 door policy??Probably that only 2 doors can be open in the house so the bird cannot go too far and there is less risk of losing it. 🙂 Just a guess…
Or, maybe they have a double door, such as a screen door and a regular door on all the outside doors.
There has to be two doors shut between the bird and the outside world. If one door gets open, the other door is shut. That way if the bird gets into the outer room by the door, it gets put back into the inner room before anyone else can open up the outside door. It’s like an airlock in a space ship. You go in the outside door and let it close behind you. Then you go into the inner door where the bird is.
Melody, that drawing is just too precious!
But we have 2 types of bird feeders, so it got ok food. I’ve been away for the past week, but even before I left, I had seen less and less of it. Last week, my husband didn’t see it at all, so I just hope it found a home!
But now, if it does come back, we have a plan!
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmWe used to have a pair of Quaker parakeets that lived and nested in our area. They somehow managed to survive just fine though the Colorado winters. However, they started nesting next to a power transformer and thier nest caught on fire several times. They kept rebuilding it, so the utility company had to catch them. They were given to our zoo.
I’ve had two birds. My first bird was a cockatiel that could fly extremely well even with his wings clipped. The vet even clipped a few extra feathers, but it didn’t work. He would always fly circles around the house hitting nothing and then land on the curtain rod and wait for me to get a chair and get him. The bird I have now is a Quaker who doesn’t fly very well at all. I have her wings clipped because she is a really clumsy flier.
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