i can't seem to tame wendy

[luthien16]

Aaugh i have wendy for about seven months now she still gets scared if i get close to her and if i take her in my hand (with a lot of effort) she bites me... i tried all the techniques i've been told but i can't seem to get tru to her...
Any advice is welcomed...

[Kaytee]

Hi Anna! In the past I have had success at hand taming cockatiels by making sure their wings are clipped, taking them in a small room such as a bathroom, and closing the door and just having a lot of one on one with the bird. Sit in the floor, have some millet with you to entice Wendy.....talk softly to her and just let her know that you only want to be friends and hopefully she will come around..... Is her cage close to where you are most of the time. I also find that sitting their cage near where I sit so they get used to my voice and my movements helps too...

[Rosie]

hi anna, first of all you could try just simply putting your hand in her cage just so she could get used to you. do this for about 1 week untill she getts used to a hand being in her cage. in the next week try to put your hand closer to her, if shes attemps to bite take your hand away so your no threat. it may take a long time but it worked for my budgie, percy who used to be very vicious.
Good luck:)

[Amy]

I did that and Billy and Lily don't mind me at all now!

[Crystal_Dawn]

hi :) i just finished typing out a long discription of two techniques that i have used and gotten great results from on many occasions :) i don't feel like typing it all over again so i'm just gonna copy and paste it hahaha :D

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you can try what I did to make trisket so amazing . two things really:

1) put her inside your shirt regularly and just go about your buisness hahaha! do the dishes, tidy up, whatever. usually between your ******* resting on your bra gives them somwhere to hold on to and feel safe (unless you have huge ones haha, theres lots of space in that spot for mine anyway ahahah!), the shoulder is another good spot or if your laying down, then on your chest/stomach. this way they get to know your scent and be close to you. I find it speeds up the comfort level of your budgie. hint: make sure you keep her nails trimmed good though, it can scratch if not haha. and at first they won't like it, but they get used to it and begin to like it eventually.

2) wrap her in a face cloth (just a single layer) and ly down on the sofa holding her to your chest. At first she'll be scared but just hold her there for a little while (5 minutes or so) untill she seems to calm down and relax a bit. once she has, with one hand still on her back, peel the face cloth off of her face but keep it a little above her head still (makes her feel hidden and therefore safer) and slowley bring a finger towards her and lightly stroak her beak (symbol of friendship to budgies). then try using the finger to rub her head and neck and cheek. obviously this will take many attempots before she enjoys this, but if you make a point of doing it every day for about a half hour or so, then believe it or not eventually she will come to love it and she'll even start fluffing up her head and moving it make sure that you scratch her favorite spots (they seem to generally love around the ear and under the chin) and she'll most likley end up preening the face cloth fabric while you preen her sometimes. I think they look at it as part of you after awhile and they want to return the favor. eventually (months later) I was able to just cup her under my hand on my chest without the facecloth at all. she did need to be coverd though, not forcfully, just to make her feel hidden she came to love what i refer to as snuggle time so much that if i didn't do it with her for a couple of days she would get really cranky, untill i snuggled her again hahaha, then she'd be all sweet and kisses again. It may seem like a forcful way to tame her, but in my opinion, budgies are such nervous animals that in order to get them to such a comfortable level of tamness they need to be forced a little at first so that they have the chance to realize they like you and what your doing! I've used this technique on many budgies other than my own with great results, and other people that I have shared it with have also gotten great results with it. so i'm very confident in it



oh and one really important thing to know about taming... try to do it out of site of her cage. If they can see there cage they want to go back to it... but it they can't see it, you become the safest thing in the room and they'll want to stay with you

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hope this helps! good luck :D

[Amy]

Woa! That's a lot of typing!

[Mistyoriline]

You will get there in time.

[Amy]

Oi! I can type a lot! Or are you talking about Wendy?

[Mistyoriline]

lol...I bet.

[Amy]

Who are you talking about!?

And I can type a lot, you'll see one day. *Makes war noise*

[Mistyoriline]

Calm down budgie mama....lol

[Amy]

Ha ha! *bursts with laughter!*

[tigerlily85258]

i tried and she escaped and bit my arm so hard i started to bleed:crying:i call her hoddini because she can escape anything

[tigerlily85258]

i did #2 with the wash cloth

[tigerlily85258]

i know i cant spell

[Budgiekin]

Just make sure you don't chase your budgie too much as it can be stressful. Have you tried the perch training where you get your little sweety to step up onto a perch instead of your finger. This gets them used to the "step up" command......;)

[tigerlily85258]

i tried that for a whole year!!!!!i can only get her to do it well,apple works better than millit to get them on it

[tigerlily85258]

i can only get her to do it for like a min before she bites me

[tigerlily85258]

she dosent trust anyone any more because my brother almost killed her,he got mad becaus i was like 4 and broke his game system.he grabed her and tried to put in a shredder...-cry-

[titoandMac]

thats horrible! your brother is so cruel. another way is to take your budgie away from the cage and hold her in a washcloth. you can speak to her softly and slowly uncover her once she is relaxed. you can feed her millet and i just found out that kitty grass is perfectly healthy for budgies and they love it!

[tigerlily85258]

you mean cat nip?

[titoandMac]

no it looks like a plastic container with grass poking out of it. the brand name is kitty grass

[tigerlily85258]

oh ok i know what your talking about now,my bird likes apple better...

[tigerlily85258]

i also learnd to grow bird seed and she loves the 2 week old sprouts(clean them off before you give them to birds though)i also add worms to make them health instead of fertilizer

[titoandMac]

what does wendy look like. coild you post a pic

[bacon&egg]

well make sure your budgie is no older than 4-5 months old because that's the age that they can be tamed. if they're older, then its hard for them to get used to your hand because they haven't been introduced to it when they were young. just like this quote; you can't teach an old dog new tricks. if you get my drift. :)

[tigerlily85258]

i taught a 17 year old dog to roll over
:P