My budgie now likes to be out now and when I take him back to the cage he flies off.... he is playing with me I am sure. But I need him to know who is boss.

 

Is there anything I can do to make it easier to get him in.

Unless he is finger tame I dont think so - Im having awful trouble with Bobby I let him out and he goes straight in Candys cage and stays put only way I can get him back in his own cage is to pick him up and about 20 mins of trying to catch him first. Oh and I am practising finger taming he just doesnt want to know - Im not too bothered as I love to see him interact with Candy plus he is used to the picking up now and knows when its time for bed thats when he runs away from me in the tiniest of corners where I cant get him hehee!

yeah they have to be finger tame although saying that mine are fingertame and when i take them near the cage they fly off (Laughing out loud)... i usually just shut the cage when they both go in but im sure over the last few days they are taking it in turns to go in and feed with the other just watching from the top of the cage.. then they are out for a few more hours (Laughing out loud)

Agree with all the above! Sometimes it helps to turn the lights down low and then they think it's roosting time.(Sometimes!) I've tried to teach mine the word 'cage' and I tap the landing stage at the same time and sometimes that works too but I don't know if it's just a fluke or not!

Julie

i used to put a bit of seed or millet on the palm of my hand and get rocky to jump on. As he was tucking in i used to shove him swiftly into the cage that was that.

Thanks for all the advice, I will keep perservering. I will let you know if I do anything that works. he he

I'm having the same problem right now too! Jack used to always go to bed NO PROBLEM, but now that he sees Galen being a brat, he's starting to think he doesn't need to go to bed when I tell him!

i don't have a problem with Scooby, she'll go in fine, but Mitsi, sometimes he will other times he won't n flys around and around my room, i give him two chances and then i get out a peaice of light voil fabric n when he lands put it over him and gentaly pick him up n put him into his cage, he isn't scared at all by the expirence but it does show him that i'm the boss and i will get my own way.

 

Claire

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Sparky will go back in his cage when he feels like it which can take up to three hours , so I dim the lights as Julie said and Sparky will then decide it's time for bed, but it doesn't always work on him though.

Good luck

If you can get him on your finger you need to shove him in his cage as fast as you can. That's usually the only way i can put Blinkie back in his cage.

hi everyone just like to say that only sky is trained, buddie i cannot get near him even after a month of trying .what i do is let then out of the cage but there is no food outside of the cage, when they are hungry they go back in.most nights they come and go to their food for as long as they like, then they seem to have had enough of being out and go back in to sleep. the most they stay out of their cage before getting hungry is about forty minutes.

i let buddie find his own way out of the cage first time as i cannot seem to finger tame him (still trying though) by putting a perch on either side of the door. sky is no problem at all though i can just pick her up

I just made a point of closing Beekle's cage door anytime he went in after I'd had dinner. Occasionally I had to force him in by taking the cage to him though. After about four months he just started returning to his cage in the late evening and he's been no problem since.

 

One plus point, though:he has complete freedom to come and go during the day so it's less likely he sees his cage as a prison.

I just made a point of closing Beekle's cage door anytime he went in after I'd had dinner. Occasionally I had to force him in by taking the cage to him though. After about four months he just started returning to his cage in the late evening and he's been no problem since.

 

One plus point, though:he has complete freedom to come and go during the day so it's less likely he sees his cage as a prison.

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More or less the same for me,I honestly think they like to get back into their cage after dinner,which pleases me and makes me feel not quite so bad for having a caged bird.

Julie