Hello again everyone!

 

Made a trip to the humane society last weekend and picked up 4 adult budgies. There were 9 there that had come from one home alone. I wish I could have taken them all, but I already have 4 and I have room to maintain 8 comfortably, but it would be pushing it to have more than that. They are all about 3-4 years in age. We took them to a vet clinic just yesterday, and though there was absolutely nothing wrong with the vet herself, nor her student who is interested in avian medicine, the clinic itself is for all types of animals. The budgies were all in good health. However, it was a strange and uncomfortable visit for us. Immediately upon entering, this young man with a very large dog approached us in an overly friendly manner and was attempting to let his dog get very close to our cages. I kept standing in front of the cages blocking the dog from getting near them. It was very disturbing and annoying. Finally he left the building. He kept telling me that his dog was used to birds because they have many at home and he's around them all the time. Well, excuse me, but I don't think the birds were used to large dogs and it alarmed them and me.

 

While we were waiting, many animals came and went. I found myself wishing that I was able to take a week day off and just go to the avian vet clinic where they were only exotics. I almost left a couple of times but I was there, and we were almost ready to be seen. We finally got in, and the birds checked out okay. When we left the examining room with the cages, we had to pass people sitting in the waiting areas. Immediately as we walked by someone with a cat, they commented on "there's a snack for our cat!".

 

To make matters even worse, while we were standing at the counter waiting for them to close us out so that we could leave, the very friendly girl behind the counter couldn't help but relate her story about the only budgie she ever knew, and how that it had "ran away" one day and it had found it's way back the next day, however "the dog bit it's head off." Truly a weird experience. Nothing wrong with the vets as I said, but some people are so damn stupid.

 

I don't have any photos that are good enough to post as I keep focusing on their cages instead of the budgies. However, after I've trained them a bit (they apparently have never been let out) and after their quarantine, I will take some good photos. There are three males and one female. Cleo, Anthony, Alex and Caesar. Their names were written on their papers but unfortunately, it was two birds in each photo they provided and it is difficult to know what name belongs to whom?!

shaking head people is all I can say, they do that with my cats though friendly with my dogs not friendly with other dogs you know how that goes.

 

on a positive note, how exciting, I bet you can't want to intro them after their quarentine is up to your existing flock. Our humane society only does dogs, cats, bunnies and other small furries. You have to go to a bird rescue for birds here.

 

I look forward to pics.

shaking head people is all I can say, they do that with my cats though friendly with my dogs not friendly with other dogs you know how that goes.

 

on a positive note, how exciting, I bet you can't want to intro them after their quarentine is up to your existing flock. Our humane society only does dogs, cats, bunnies and other small furries. You have to go to a bird rescue for birds here.

 

I look forward to pics.

 

Thanks for replying, and oh yes, I'm anxious to have 'em all together but I have a lot of work ahead of me before I can introduce them. They so need to be hand tamed. I can see that one will be easier than all the rest, he just jumped on my finger. His cagemate was a little anxious but he, too, gets on my finger. Unfortunately, the two others were terrified so it's going to be much slower for them. Someone taught them to whistle though, because the female whistles. I can't wait to photograph them. Our house is quite vibrant now - the new budgies and my other budgies in another room, talk and squak back and forth. I know they are anxious to see these newcomers. Perhaps this is a new thing for our Humane Society because the lady that we spoke to asked us to catch them to put into our cages and she really didn't know a lot about them or how to take care of them. They had seeds, water and lettuce but I don't think they know more than that about budgies and she indicated that their vet didn't know much about birds. I think they don't usually get birds.