Rescued cockatiels

**madhen** · 03-20-2009, 10:04 PM

Some of you may know, I took in six cockatiels on Sunday. The were seized by the local animal control and I was asked to foster them until homes could be found. They are in pretty ratty condition, but appear healthy and active otherwise.

Well, I have a potential adopter coming in tomorrow to (hopefully) take one or two of the birds! I hope she takes the little male who likes to start singing his lungs off at 6:00 am!!

Anyhow, just hoping you might wish some luck my way to get these little ones placed into loving homes! And soon!! I want my bedroom back!!

**dcompton** · 03-20-2009, 10:08 PM

Good luck with finding homes. I wish I could have one again, but I'm not willing to pay the pet deposits. My female cockatiel was one of my best pets ever, as good as my cats, and in some ways, even more companionable. She was a love of a bird.

The male on the other hand was a stinker.

**G'MaDebbie** · 03-20-2009, 10:11 PM

I have tiels myself, and I wish you the best of luck in finding them all good homes. BTW..I would never put mine in my bedroom, that's what I have an alarm clock for....lol!

**thesightofoneself** · 03-20-2009, 10:12 PM

free alarm clock, its frugal!

**madhen** · 03-20-2009, 10:17 PM

Well, unfortunately, upstairs in the bedroom was the only place left in the house that didn't have animals in it!! I have the baby chicks, the finches, the budgies, and the bunnies on the ground floor. My parrots are on the second floor. The only place I could put the tiels, where I could be sure they aren't sharing air space with my other birds, was upstairs in the bedroom (two doors between them and all other birds). It was also the lightest room in the upstairs area, and the coolest, so they get some good late morning sunlight, and they get to have the windows open and listen to the wild birds. But yes, the one little stinker of a lutino male starts serenading everyone within a five-mile radius as soon as the first hint of light hits the room!!

Good point about the alarm clock, TSOO, but I can't find his snooze button!

**thesightofoneself** · 03-20-2009, 10:20 PM

a dart

animals are our friends... blah blah blah

**mom2matty** · 03-20-2009, 10:21 PM

My fingers are crossed that it all works out!!

**dcompton** · 03-20-2009, 10:23 PM

For being such pretty little birds they have shocking locomotive whistle calls when they put their minds to it. I don't think I would even attempt to have them in an apartment again. I like having the high moral ground of a quiet existence so I can carp about noisy neighbors if it really becomes necessary.

**madhen** · 03-20-2009, 10:27 PM

Well, I'm out in the middle of nowhere, so no problems there.

Don't even get me started on the chirping.

I used to have a male cockatiel named Beaujolais, who learned to perfectly mimic a car alarm that went off several times a day. I counted it once, and it would play four tones, each sixteen times. Beau did the exact same thing.

**dcompton** · 03-20-2009, 10:39 PM

Ackk! I think if I had a bird that learned to do that, I would seriously consider putting him in a box on someone's porch, ringing the doorbell, and RUNNING!

**madhen** · 03-20-2009, 10:42 PM

As I was typing this, I noticed that my African Grey was talking to himself, and laughing at his own jokes, in the other room.

**Spirit Deer** · 03-21-2009, 08:30 AM

Where did he learn to do that, Madhen?

**G'MaDebbie** · 03-21-2009, 10:00 AM

I have a lutino male too! He sings his little heart out!

**rainbowgc** · 03-21-2009, 11:36 AM

What a sweetheart you are for fostering them, good luck finding them good homes.

**madhen** · 03-23-2009, 12:17 AM

Originally Posted by Spirit Deer

Where did he learn to do that, Madhen?

The bird is VERY independent. He makes up his own songs all the time, and usually has a "chatty" period at dusk, when it is anyone's guess what will come out of that little Grey brain of his.