Regaining Trust

[Rie]

Gus is my little fella, he is about 9 months old and recently he has been unwell. He has had a case of scaley face mite and a bacterial infection in his throat and to make things worse he also almost broke his wing in a flying accident.

Because of all of these tings he has had a lot of attention lately.......initially alot of inspecting about the mites, then a trip to the vet which involved alot of prodding, grabbing, tubes, injections, all that horrible stuff nobody likes, and recently for the bacterial infection i have had to give him a drop of this medecine twice a day by the mouth using a dropper for ten days.

As you can imagine this is all very stressful for a little guy like Gus and it has really effected his trust for me thus our relationship. the treatment is now almost over and i would like anyones ideas on how to regain trust and our friendship. he used to love head scratches and playing with me, now he just runs away fearing what i may do to him.

I wish he could understand that it is all to help him, but then again, he wouldn't really be the same if he saw the world like a human did i guess.

[Alfie]

I'd say start over again. Start with the finger taming inside the cage and work from there. Because he's already been quite tame im sure it wont take long to get him back to normal.

Good luck!

[jayjay]

losing trust always feels awful especially when you are just trying to help the little guys out, but it happens and when it does, all you can do is continue to act the way you always do. eventually, they will come around. glad the treatment and stuff went well though. he'll be back to normal in no time im sure.

[Stipe]

Budgies are EXTREEMLY intelligent birds. They will never forget that incident but liek humans will learn to forgive. Yes they can forgive and forget. In numerous eperiments that i and my collegues have conducted we have foudn that budgies that get in fueds with thier partners and friends (yes friends) after a while forgive each other. There are extreemly intelligent and if you start your taming over again i am sure that he will learn that you have stoped your wicked ways (well to him it is :) )and want to play with him again, give him tones of treats and talk softly to him, read my article in the budgie articles section, it has mroe than you need to know.

[Sunshine13]

I had to re- train my little man too. it was hard work but we managed to do it and I can say it feels good to know that he loves me and that he knows I love him. my budgie is always learning new things that I don't know where they came from. :budgie:

[HollyT]

I agree with going back to the basics...treat the situation as if you just brought him home....start by talking to him, telling him what a strong and sweet budgie he is...he may not understand every word but they get the idea...tell him you were just trying to get him healthy again....then move onto the basic step ups...in cage or out of...

time will heal...budgies can forgive.

glad you've managed to get him healthy again.

let us know how it goes!

[redgirl]

You will need to start from scratch I think but I doubt it will take long to get his trust back...shame he doesnt understand that you was helping him it would make this a lot easier for you both ha ha sure he will be fine soon.

[my budgie billy]

it shouldnt take to long cuz i went on my holz for a week and when i got bac billy hated me he wouldnt perch on my finger or put my hand in the cage!!but within a day he was back to his old self sitting on my head while i posted on here lol.good look!