Puddings & Toyboys
A blog about my beautiful budgies.
Unconventional taming method
5 November 2012
Posted by on Phineas has always been a bit wary & suspicious of me. If I was very careful & very slow, he would eat millet from my hand… sometimes. Since joining the toyboys in the same room he has relaxed a lot more. When I put my finger between the bars of the cage he stopped running away & gradually plucked up courage to peck. He found he really liked biting & chewing this soft, wriggly thing!
I decided to work on his liking for chewing fingers as the millet did not seem enough to tempt him. I started putting my hand in the cage & twiddling my fingers enticingly. He soon discovered that a hand can be fun – fingers to chew & bite, fingernails to talk to & a nice bouncy surface. We would have bonding, biting sessions!
I would not recommend this method to others but it works quite well for me as my leathery fingers have already been toughened up by Pudding bites. 😀
Here is Phinny in action:
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What a sweetie. But I think he wants to mate with your hand. Wont be long before the “wiggle” comes into play!
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We now have a proper “wiggle” session on my hand at least once a day. The first time he looked quite surprised himself. 😀
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Does he do ‘girly’ (i.e. very ferocious!) bites like Ian does?
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Dumpling has a ferocious bite. He knows just how and where to make it hurt!
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Oh, so does Ian! He can be an extremely bad bird if he wants to.
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I think to a hand that has not been puddingyfied, his bites would be quite hard. He certainly means business but not in a nasty way. He has bitten me on the wrist a couple of times that did make me think of Ian. 🙂
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Ian likes people to think of him.
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Phineas is too cute! I would never dare do that with Mishka or Ptak… both have already proven that they know just which joints are most painful.
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They probably worked out that the most painful places elicit a lovely loud yell. 🙂 I try & keep my screams all at the same level so Phineas doesn’t know which bits are the most painful. 😀
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Phineas is a dream! He has really got a taste for fingers tho! 🙂
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Yes, he still likes fingers. On the positive side it makes me feel needed. 😀
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