So I rescued a Nanday from a bad situation Monday a week ago and I'm wanting to take him to the vet. Problem is he isn't trained in the slightest and won't let me get him into the carrier. He will come up to me when I stand at his cage and talk to him and he also takes food pieces from my hand but as soon as my hand gets in the cage he's on the opposite side. So my question is what is the best and least stressful way to get him into the carrier?? He seems to be trusting me more and more each day but he still won't let me touch him, (which isn't bothering me. He's been through a bunch in his short life and I understand that he needs to take his time) but I really want to take him to the vet for my own peace of mind. I would hate for something to be wrong and I find my cute little Rio laying on the bottom of his cage. I've only had him for a week but I'm already in love! I've had parakeets in the past but they were all very trusting and I got them at a breeders so they already came right to my hand, so I don't really know the best way to go about this. Any advice would be wonderful! Thanks!
Congrats on taking in your new friend.....the first nanday I ever got was a re-home her owner had become afraid of, because she had laid 3 eggs & would open her wings & beak whenever anyone wanted to feed or water her.....apparently she had bitten the woman's sister, so everybody got scared of her.....I was asked to take her & the night I went to get her, I brought her home, put her in the spare bedroom, opened her cage door, she climbed out, I held out my hand, she climbed on & even let me pick her up.....I fed her & let her get comfortable in a larger spare cage I had and set hers outside, planning to clean it in the morning.....
If you can arrange an early morning vet appointment, you would probably have better luck trying to get him in your travel cage in the dark, though since he is hand skittish you might be opening yourself up for a bite, but if you're familiar with controlling a conure's beak when holding it, you shouldn't get bit or stress the bird too much.....
There's a pic of how to hold & control a bird's beak on an earlier thread: http://www.parrotforums.com/general-health-care/48111-will-my-greencheek-s-feathers-grow-back.html
If the possibility of getting bit bothers you, you may have to wait until you have gotten friendlier with him or he has gotten friendlier with you.....
Good luck.....
If you can arrange an early morning vet appointment, you would probably have better luck trying to get him in your travel cage in the dark, though since he is hand skittish you might be opening yourself up for a bite, but if you're familiar with controlling a conure's beak when holding it, you shouldn't get bit or stress the bird too much.....
There's a pic of how to hold & control a bird's beak on an earlier thread: http://www.parrotforums.com/general-health-care/48111-will-my-greencheek-s-feathers-grow-back.html
If the possibility of getting bit bothers you, you may have to wait until you have gotten friendlier with him or he has gotten friendlier with you.....
Good luck.....
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Thanks for the reply! I will defiantly try when he's out of his cage. I'm not afraid of a bite. He gives more of a warning bite anyways. When I put my finger in his cage he bites down a little then just gently holds it in his mouth until he lets me go again. I'll try tonight as a test to get him in the carrier. Thanks again!
