Posted March 31, 201312 yr Hi everyone, I'm a budgie (and all round animal) lover from Perth. Have been browsing these forums casually for months but couldn't figure out why it wouldn't accept my email... apparently the facebook address is the only acceptable one?? Anyway, I'm here now I've just transferred my budgies to an outdoor aviary. They'd been in separate cages (either 1 or 2 per cage) for varying amounts of time. We started with Chloe, a rescue we adopted from Second Chance Small Animal Shelter. After a while we decided to get her a companion, along came Ollie. Then Nudgie flew into our backyard, looking hungry and exhausted, so we ended up keeping her. After a while we thought we should even them up so there was no 'third wheel'; introducing Max. The place I got him from had a lot of other birds, but one in particular I didn't like how it was being kept, so I bought it as well (too young to tell gender). Had to even the numbers up again, so I went surfing on gumtree and found Tom... I do have a 'bad' habit of going online and finding birds that are in tiny cages or look unloved, and trying to get them. Today I bought another one that was in a round cage with a single perch. The bird is actually happy looking, but looked eager to get to the other budgies when we got home. So that's the story. Mainly I seek to promote animal welfare, educate people about the right conditions for keeping birds and just trying to make animals as happy as possible. Animal cruelty is possibly the most upsetting thing about the world, for me at least Anyway, I'll end the ramble there... but I look forward to getting into discussions
April 11, 201312 yr Hi, Welcome to the forum. Great job rescuing the down trodden! Do you remember to quarantine when you bring the new ones home?
April 19, 201312 yr Author Thanks everyone Finnie - yeah, I'm pretty careful with that, hate the thought of any of them getting sick. It's so concerning though how many budgies seem to be mistreated
April 21, 201312 yr Welcome to the forum. Thanks everyone Finnie - yeah, I'm pretty careful with that, hate the thought of any of them getting sick. It's so concerning though how many budgies seem to be mistreated Yes it is sad about mistreated budgies .
May 1, 201312 yr Hi Figgs and welcome PS about registering and the email thing....we have to block a few of the email groups like hotmail and such becuase a lot of them allow spam to come through unfortunately Edited May 1, 201312 yr by **KAZ**
May 1, 201312 yr yeah you should always use your internets, email address when signing up to this stuff. I use Mozilla Thunderbird to check my email address. better than going to something html/php/cgi formatted/server side.
