Trial GCC

[Rana]

Duplicate post - OT

 

[kiwiS]

Hello! I acquired Kiwi very similarly to you acquiring your new baby. It was an impulse thing and I had no idea what I was getting in to, but that for some reason we had a connection. I made the big mistake of freaking out after a week and returning her. It was a long, torturous two weeks (visited her every day) before I gave up, broke all the speed limits driving to the store, and took her home again. I cried like a baby on the drive home, happy and relieved!

Of course all our situations are different, but I shudder to think what I would have felt if I had gone back to the store and she had gone home with someone else...or worse..gotten sick or something. She's never leaving me ever again, not if I can help it!!

 

[Rana]

I felt the same way with this one! he obviously took to me very quickly and was happy to come home with me! my only concern is that i need him to share a cage with our other conure - if they can't i'm not allowed to keep him... so i want to go about this the right way without stressing out either birds. Pippen is used to having a cage to himself, so i don't want to just recklessly dump another bird in with him permanently...

 

[MonicaMc]

You'll have better success housing them together if they choose to, rather than "forcing" the issue.... and I'm sure that doesn't help your situation any!!!!

Keep up with the positive experiences between the two! Food sharing can sometimes be a great way for them to learn to get along, just make sure they have their own food each!

After two months, my new conure does not get along with my other one! But I'm fine with that! In fact, I was prepared for it, so I don't care if they ever get along or not!

 

[riaria]

Keeping parrots together in a cage is always risky - and there is no guarantee that even if they start getting along, that they'll always get along. If you can't have two cages now, what if they need to be separated in the future? Will one of them have to go?

I think it's worth the risk sometimes to house two birds together when they're strongly bonded - if it's a large cage with plenty of food bowls, water bowls, and perches. But, it depends on the individual and the species, and it usually takes a LONG time for them to be so close.

So you simply cannot get another bird on the condition that it needs to share a cage with an existing bird. I'm sorry, but it's completely unreasonable...

I'd work on getting your partner to agree to another cage; it's the safest option for the birds. Presumably they're in separate cages at the moment? Maybe play the angle that it'll be really good for your current bird to have a mate, even if they're in separate cages. And it's so much safer for them. And, sounds like the little one wants to be with you