So... the BF and I finally figured out why Django had been viciously pecking and biting our fingers every morning in the past month. He would refuse to come out of his cage, spread his feet out and not budge. It was literally painful to try and get him to go outside!

 

It's because of a ball that hangs in the cage. He would sit next to it all day, play with it and talk to it. Yeah, we were a little slow to realise this. It's been a year since Ball entered Django's life. Ball's not even shiny, just has lots of holes around which Django uses to drag it around.

 

A few days ago I moved the ball to the play-gym on the TV. Guess what, he was ready to go outside again!

 

Since he was so happy to be out this morning, the BF left him on the play-gym and went to work. His cage door in the study is open, there's fresh seed and water and a radio playing. He flies back when he's ready (all other doors are closed). He's always back in his cage when we get home.

 

What the BF did differently this time was to leave the living room lamp on and a seed belt with the play-gym.

 

Guess what I saw when I got home at 6? A guilty budgie still at his play-gym with the ball, with a small mound of seed husks and droppings all around him. It was adorable but soooo naughty!

 

Needless to say the little bugger is not hungry tonight. And we've learnt to not make the play-gym area too comfortable for him!

Edited January 7, 201114 yr by sootie

loved the narrative and it made me laugh