Post by dianapalmer on Dec 30, 2013 16:54:49 GMT
Things are a bit better this morning. I let Emma out of the cage and, after flying around the living room and hooting, she came back to her porch and actually nipped the target stick five times and accepted a sunflower seed from my fingers each time! Yay! She's now back in the budgie cage eating. That seems to be where she wants to be--in the larger cage with the budgies.
I was so discouraged last night because she hadn't been willing to do anything for me since I returned from Christmas, Thursday afternoon. Last night she got disgusted at my attempts and flew past my hand, out of the cage, and perched on the ceiling fan, which is over the dining room table and nearly impossible for me to get her down from. She stayed up there for more than an hour, then went back into the budgie cage to eat and turned her back on me.
Pammy--I appreciate your advice to have her clipped. Perhaps after New Years I will be able to do it. There is a vet who says s/he does avian work in Newburgh, about a half an hour from me. I have never been to Newburgh. However, my daughter and her husband gave me a GPS for Christmas, so that will be a chance to try it out.
I was so discouraged last night because she hadn't been willing to do anything for me since I returned from Christmas, Thursday afternoon. Last night she got disgusted at my attempts and flew past my hand, out of the cage, and perched on the ceiling fan, which is over the dining room table and nearly impossible for me to get her down from. She stayed up there for more than an hour, then went back into the budgie cage to eat and turned her back on me.
Pammy--I appreciate your advice to have her clipped. Perhaps after New Years I will be able to do it. There is a vet who says s/he does avian work in Newburgh, about a half an hour from me. I have never been to Newburgh. However, my daughter and her husband gave me a GPS for Christmas, so that will be a chance to try it out.
I wouldn't clip her now if I were you.
