found a budgie

Flora · Post by **Flora** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:07 pm

So I found a budgie on my driveway. It's pretty, goes with my decor but it's doing my head in cos I think it's depressed. I have it in a cage and I put it outside during the day but it seems lonely. It doesn't seem to want to bond with me and it thinks that the wild birds trying to peck at it, want to be friends.

I need to give this bird away to someone with a big aviary with lots of birds. It's really on my mind all the time. I also have 2 cats which doesn't make for an ideal environment for the bird.

I can't stand another week of this...I am becoming obsessed with the birds' happiness! :-5

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:09 pm

You can get it a buddy, or one of those birdie mirrors to look at. Some types of birds like that.

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:11 pm

Ring the RSPB or your local pet store to see if they will rehouse it for you.

Flora · Post by **Flora** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:14 pm

Thing is, I won't let it go to just anyone. I feel it's my duty to fulfill the birds needs and find it a big home with lots of social prospects.

I did think about the mirror thing...but do you think birds feels confused as to why it's a one sided relationship? "It's like talking to a brick wall..."

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:21 pm

http://www.petsworld.co.uk/budgies.htm

Some good advice there Flora:-6

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:47 pm

he is depressed because he is lost from his home, why not post signs around the neighbourhood..............I am sure someone is missing him.

Trunk Monkey · Post by **Trunk Monkey** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:47 pm

Flora;988154 wrote: So I found a budgie on my driveway. It's pretty, goes with my decor but it's doing my head in cos I think it's depressed. I have it in a cage and I put it outside during the day but it seems lonely. It doesn't seem to want to bond with me and it thinks that the wild birds trying to peck at it, want to be friends.

I need to give this bird away to someone with a big aviary with lots of birds. It's really on my mind all the time. I also have 2 cats which doesn't make for an ideal environment for the bird.

I can't stand another week of this...I am becoming obsessed with the birds' happiness! :-5

Stupid questions but here I go:

1) Have you checked the local newspaper "lost and found section"

2) Have you placed an ad in the "lost and found section" of your local newspaper

IMO someone lost this budgie and would be very happy to get it back. A mirror only causes a bird to become more agitated since it thinks there is another bird in there with it. This budgie seems lonely to me also and either needs to find a home or have another budgie to keep it company. Good luck with this!

Flora · Post by **Flora** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:05 pm

Yeah, no notices for this lost budgie, but you're right, I should place one myself, Trunk Monkey.

I thought the mirror thing was not right. The budgie is okay with me for now, I guess, it's eating and drinking okay, but I would like it to go home.

Trunk Monkey · Post by **Trunk Monkey** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:17 pm

Flora;988200 wrote: Yeah, no notices for this lost budgie, but you're right, I should place one myself, Trunk Monkey.

I thought the mirror thing was not right. The budgie is okay with me for now, I guess, it's eating and drinking okay, but I would like it to go home.

It's odd that a budgie would be just in your driveway like that. I don't think it flew that far from its own home. I would also agree to hang signs in the immediate area around you. I again wish you the best of luck with this poor little "lost" bird.

Flora · Post by **Flora** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:24 pm

Thanks Trunk Monkey. It will be okay one way or another. Either I will find it's real home, or a new exciting home.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:33 pm

Contact the local vets and ask if anybody's lost one.

The problem is, many people who have avieries wont take in an unknown bird for fear of disease.

You could contact a local nursing home for the elderly or maybe an elderly neighbour they may be glad of the company.

Flora · Post by **Flora** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 2:59 pm

jimbo;988254 wrote: i brought a budgie once

it was going cheap

Very nice Jimbo.

Yeah, I didn't think of that abbey, I mean the disease factor. I have left my number at the pet shop and the vet but nothing yet.

My friend said she would take it, so I told her she can have it if she buys it a friend. I'm driving a hard bargain here but the little thing needs company. But do they need a big cage if there is two of them?

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:36 pm

Ahhhhhh, I love budgies Flora. If I live closer to you, I would love to have him and cheer him up:-6

Flora · Post by **Flora** » Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:06 pm

Thanks Kathy Ellen and yes they are cute. I never really have been into birds but I can see how they would make nice pets. Nice if you can bond with them. To do that you need the freedom of a predator free house where you can walk around with them on your shoulder and stuff. I can't do that with 2 cats in the house!

Victoria · Post by **Victoria** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 1:08 am

Flora are you sure its a lost budgie?

I mean there are reports in England of budgies and parrots now flying wild because people have got sick of their pet and let them loose these birds are now breeding.

Could yours be a 'feral budgie'?????:-3

Flora · Post by **Flora** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:59 pm

Victoria;988467 wrote: Flora are you sure its a lost budgie?

I mean there are reports in England of budgies and parrots now flying wild because people have got sick of their pet and let them loose these birds are now breeding.

Could yours be a 'feral budgie'?????:-3

Well the thing is, they are Aussie natives, but not around the cities. I'm having huge dilemmas about this! It's rare that a pet bird would survive here once released and I don't want to let it go to a horrible fate!

Flora · Post by **Flora** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:18 pm

So the budgie story comes to a happy ending...

On Saturday I walked around the corner to a house that had bird cages on their verandah. I asked the man and his 2 daughters had they lost a budgie. They hadn't lost one, but theirs had died that morning. I told them that I had a runaway budgie at home and I was looking for it's owner.

I was planning to put posters up around the neighborhood and I had checked the lost and found, called vets, pet shops etc. The guy said that if I didn't find it's owner, that they would like to have the budgie.

When I got home, the poor little thing was all agitated and I thought how much happier it could be in the much bigger cage at the house with no cats around the corner, and if he had a friend. I figured I hadn't seen any posters on my runs, and Mum on her walks, and their was nothing in the paper or messages from the vet/pet shop. I thought that whoever had lost him was not really that bothered. So, I gave the budgie to the man and his daughters. He seemed to know a lot about birds, said this one's colours were specially bred so it couldn't be wild.

So, I think the budgie will be happy there and the girls were quiet excited.

One asked if it was animal cruelty to name it Paris. I think it will be loved.

THE END.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:21 pm

That is a happy ending, lucky budgie!

Odie · Post by **Odie** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:22 pm

fantastic! he will do so much better there!

along-for-the-ride · Post by **along-for-the-ride** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:28 pm

We have 2 parakeets. They communicate with each other regularly in different types and volumes of chirping. I read that you should have atleast 2 birds, especially if you have to go to work regularly and leave them. One bird can get lonely. They are in a medium-sized cage with a nesting area inside the cage for privacy. One is yellow and one is turquoise. We have no cats or dogs. Just a turtle who stays in another room.

I am glad your story has a happy ending.

Flora · Post by **Flora** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:41 pm

Yes, I feel good about the solution. He said he would clip it's wings which I always thought was cruel but he said that birds get used to people better when their wings are clipped. I guess they have to get used to you! That's how you bond with them. I figured that was fair, and that way the kids can have it in the house with them and not just keep it in it's cage.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:18 pm

That's a nice ending Flora...you're a good person:-6

My parakeet's name was Turkey because he was a turquoise color.

Flora · Post by **Flora** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:24 pm

Aw thanks Kathy Ellen.

Cute name, Turkey!

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:10 am

Well done Flora, I love a happy ending. :-6

raptures_music · Post by **raptures_music** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:27 am

Yay for happy endings! I'm glad you found a loving home for the little guy. From the sounds of things, it will be well cared for, and you placed it with a family who does know a lot about birds, which will save you the crash-course in parrot-keeping. Who knows, though, you might've become a parrot-lover.

I have four, all males (males have blue ceres -- the patch of skin where the nostrils are -- and females have pinkish-mauve ceres). I love all of them -- two are "natural (green w/ yellow faces) and two are blues -- and each one has his own distinct personality. None of my boys are hand-tame, which is fine with me, because they're too bonded with each other. They're about three years old, and I look forward to several happy years with them.

I have cats as well, three neuters and a spay. The spay stays in the basement (she claimed it as her part of the house ten years ago when we moved here), and the three neuters have the run of the ground and 2nd floors. That means they come in contact with our birds just about every minute. Our Amazon parrot is rather good at deterring them, I will say that.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:33 am

I have a green Amazon called Oscar, He drives me crackers!

raptures_music · Post by **raptures_music** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:53 am

abbey;990890 wrote: I have an green Amazon called Oscar, He drives me crackers!

lol all 'zons are green. do you have a picture of him?