okay I know it has only been a few days, but I am making myself sick with worry.

 

Mozzie is not settling down, in fact she gets her self so worked up and throws herself around the cage if I am in the same room as her, the other night she snaped a wing feather cause she was working herself up so much!

 

I have tried to just get her use to me around her cage let along putting my hand in there but she is just freaking out the whole time. I don't want to give up on her but I can't personally deal with this as I feel that so stressed over the matter and my other birds and dogs are getting ignored while I try and get her to settle.

 

I rang the shelter and asked if they could give me any more info about her. She was not in the main family room or anything but in a back room and they just feed her once a week so I don't think she has a concept of humans full stop! Even changing her seed and water dishes becomes a night mare.

 

The shelter will not take her back, yes I asked in case it gets to that point. I am really thinking she is going to be better to be put in a large avairy. I just don't know what to do, please any help would be great.

Are you keeping her cage covered on all 3 sides during the day? I assume she is doing this out of fear and this may help her calm down. Taking her back to the shelter if they would take her back would probably doom her fate.

Are you keeping her cage covered on all 3 sides during the day? I assume she is doing this out of fear and this may help her calm down. Taking her back to the shelter if they would take her back would probably doom her fate.

 

Yes three sides and the top are covered during the day, she is fine untill she hears or sees someone in the room then all *** breaks lose.

 

Yeah I know that taking her back to shelter would doom her, I guess I will just keep trying or see if I can find someone who has an aviry to take her. :fear

the hardest part of rescue is dealing with the animal's behavior especially when it is negative as hers is and it is not fault of her own. even an aviary bird would probably not be as fearful as she is so she was definetly abused by someone and it is ashame

 

there are many here in AU so maybe they can help you with finding her a possible aviary situation where she may be more suited, have your intro her to any of your birds or is quarantine not over yet?

Quarra is still in place but she can hear my boys and does get excited about it.

 

I think I will keep trying for the next week and see how I go, if nothing improves I might have to see if I an rehouse her to an aviry

 

thanks

Perhaps put her in a room where there is a lot of human traffic. Just have limited in cage interaction with her for now i.e. changing water, food and paper. Interact with her from across the room, talk to her constantly. Try that and see how it goes. Make sure all your interactions with her are positive eg "millet miraculously appears in the cage after that big scary monster tried to eat me, hey maybe this ain't so bad afterall"

The boys might just have too move!!!

Good luck and let us know how it goes

Perhaps put her in a room where there is a lot of human traffic. Just have limited in cage interaction with her for now i.e. changing water, food and paper. Interact with her from across the room, talk to her constantly. Try that and see how it goes. Make sure all your interactions with her are positive eg "millet miraculously appears in the cage after that big scary monster tried to eat me, hey maybe this ain't so bad afterall"

The boys might just have too move!!!

Good luck and let us know how it goes

Good suggestions

does she have clipped wings? that might help with the taming of her at the moment.

 

Millet is very helpful. then there is another type of handling/taming that isn't used much as there is a chance of over stressing the bird (which can be too much) but that is tunneling the bird in your hands on your chest, letting it climb up over and over again until they settle down, slightly shocking but many learn your not going to hurt them. (although your fingers can be hurt during the process)

Thought I would give you an update. Things where not looking good. To the point that I was really worried. I took her to the vets to have her wing looked at and we decided to medicate her for a few days. Also after talking a lot with both the vet, my father and a good friend we decided that the risk to break quarra was going to be worth it and we put her in with Harley and Blue. Mozzie had not been around other birds and was given a full bill of heath and all her test came back clean.

 

I can't get over the change she settled within a few hours, she does not seem to care about people moving around the cage and when she does become stressed then she just wedges herself between the other boys. Changing their feed and water is not been that much of an issue. Normally I have one or both of the boys sitting on my hands while I change the dishes over she does not do that but she does come over to look at what we are doing and not panic.

 

I have attempted to handle her a few times over the weekend, small batches with Blue and Harley close by.

 

Blue is fascinated by her and chases her around the cage in a good way, my sister and I watched them yesterday and Harley had the biggest, "Children what do I do with them" look on his face.

 

The really funny thing was, I took the boys into room to give them some free time and play soccer with Blue, I lie on the bed on my side and get a small ball and he stands on the bed and we "Kick" it back and forth. Harley made his way out of the cage up onto the bed and Mozzie come with him, sticking close but seemed interested in what was going on. Her wings are clipped (not by me) so she is adjusting to the fact that she can’t fly and is coping off Harley as to how to get around.

 

It was a really good weekend. I will keep Flame in quarra till the end of the month but I glad that I went this route with Mozzie cause otherwise I would have given up on her.

as I stated in my previous post I assumed that she would probably settle once she was with her own kind, that is wonderful to hear she is doing much better.

as I stated in my previous post I assumed that she would probably settle once she was with her own kind, that is wonderful to hear she is doing much better.

 

Yeah I was really hoping that she would settle and I was not going to break quarra but the vet thought the risk was REALLY low that she had something to pass onto the other guys.

 

Thanks for the advice

Yay, well I'm glad that worked out for you

:ygbudgie: Sounds like all is going better, good for the both of you. REMEMBER that birds (actually any animal) don't always meet our expectations (but we don't know what happened to these rescues before we got them). So you just have to be patient and if things don't work out exactly the way you wanted them to, this bird came into your life so you can take care of her and she will be a companion to others in your flock.

:ygbudgie: Sounds like all is going better, good for the both of you. REMEMBER that birds (actually any animal) don't always meet our expectations (but we don't know what happened to these rescues before we got them). So you just have to be patient and if things don't work out exactly the way you wanted them to, this bird came into your life so you can take care of her and she will be a companion to others in your flock. :sad:

 

I have been following your post. That's fantastic news. I'm glad things have worked out for you all. It sounds like the boys are helping her adjust and showing how just how things are done. Love the name by the way :sad: Keep us updated xx

that is really great news

Thought you might like a picture since I can now get her close enough to her to take one!

 

Mozzie

 

 

And all my babys settling in for the night

 

 

And before you ask, yes I broke Quarra with Flame. Her cage got overrun by ants, I took her out and cleaned it up and washed her (because they where crawling all over her body) moved the cage and put her back and the next morning it was the same! For crying out loud the cage is in the house! Repeated the whole thing, moved her to another room and got home from work and the same thing had happened again! *bangs head against wall* Never had this issues with my big cage so I moved her to that and no more ant issues.

:ygbudgie: Good news!

that is great to hear