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This arvo I coaxed Shanti onto the wooden perch ""stepup""and lowered her onto the ground for a run around, and when I captured her in the towel we sat on the sofa while I cuddled her up and rubbed her beak and attempted to avoid the bites to give her head a little scratch - then...

That sounds so COOL skibum - I hope Shanti trusts us enuff to get that tame one day. Today after lots of coaxing she stepped onto the long perch I offered with a ''stepup'' request inside her cage and allowed me to bring her down and outside on it where she promptly jumped back in - talk about a bat...

LOL I thought it wasnt just NZ that used that phrase! Being an international site you can never tell - I was talking about chooks to a south african employee just this morning when I relised he was looking rather blank and he asked 'what is a chook?' We call adult laying chickens 'chooks' here - but...

NICOLA Sounds like its all good at your place. Deja vu is French which New Zealanders have picked up a bit like a national saying in certain circumstances but I think its used in some other countries too. Basically it means - 'Ive seen that before' or 'here we go again'. Your post sounded so much li...

HEY EVERYONE SHANTI STEPPED UP ONTO A STICK TODAY AND LET ME LIFT HER BACK INTO HER CAGE!!! She'd been really quiet walking around and climbing the curtains, I just watched her for about 2 hrs so I eventually tried to offer my finger - bites but almost nil pain. Then I thought of the stick - after a...

Gosh! deja vu! If this bird willingly climbed onto your hand - it must be used to ppl having close interaction, mine was crazy and really really hurt anyone who went near it at the beginning. What I have observed is that IRNs have a STRONG self preservation instinct, and because of this take a long ...

Well the DVD was so scary I decided it was probably scaring Shanti too and rolled her back in the bird room LOL. Later we played watch Birdie have fun with Mummy and got a bit too close a couple of times and she leaned over and nipped me - NO blood- NO bruises yayyyy. Birdie spoiled it by nibbling o...

Hey Kyria - I see your citizenship is in heaven - we must be sisters! :)

I think I heard Shanti practicing OUCH the other day - just kidding! After that last post I spent some time with her (Im on hols right now so can) And we played "watch birdie having fun with Mummy" I thought it was quite a breakthrough - first I opned her cage (it has a HUGE door) and clea...

PS - my fingers asked me to say thank you to everyone who has suggested I stop offering them to Shanti for the time being - thank you thank you thank you hahahahaaaa :)

Thank you Kyria, that is really encouraging - instinctively and with some encouragment from Skibum I have started doing some of this. Shanti's cage is on wheels so I have wheeled her around the house so she gets to see where the noises come from that she hears from the room she is in. I think I got ...

From my experience raising two boys, IRNs arent toddlers, they are delinquant teenagers! hahahahahaa Nighty nite. Jen

That is interesting - hadnt heard this cage thing before, Shanti seems to spend all her timing dreamig about being out of hers - I think. This arvo when I got home I got a corn cob I was going to tempt Shanti with - well I opened the cage and like a shot she was under my arm and out in the room - pl...

I caught the pic on the other thread - that is a whopper of a cage! Today while I was at work Shanti ripped up half a newpaper into little bits and threw most of out the cage anto the floor as well as emptying her seed bowl the same way! So I got her a heap more toys with as many as I could that 'do...

YUM YUM - wow thats one helluva cage!! :) Jen

Gosh doesnt the price jump in countires that have few natives - no wonder those rotten sods who tape them up, dope them and pack them like sardines try to smuggle them over borders!! :( :(

I guess in India you can pick them off trees like apples for nothing *chortle*

THIRTY BUCKS!!! suck! hahahha Id pay $750 for a lifetime IRN companion with the right nature - if I had $750 that is! I love the blue colour - very tempted to purchase one we have in store at the mo almost ready for sale - but alas not enuff pingers in the piggy bank :( The rest are white. Shanti is...

Your comments are really encouraging - Shanti was about two weeks at work and now one week home. Two days since clipping. I have found out she loves corn on the cob and orange. I will try peas. I havent tried to get my hands near her for two days now - the scabs are healing and the bruises going gre...

In New Zealand we have few native parrots so anything else is treasured where they may be pests elsewhere :) In pet stores prices for handreared IRNs are $350-400NZ Handreared Cockatiels $150-200NZ Handreared Budgies $35-55NZ variances are dependant on colour. Aviary/wild birds are vastly cheaper. I...

Im so sorry about Max - I trust someone like me found him, IRNs are pretty unusual and cant be missed! Shanti had been fending for herself for quite a while the vet said - he could tell by what was healthy and what wasnt - even then she had PLENTY of fight in her when she was re-captured. I believe ...

WINGS GOT CLIPPED BY AN AVIAN VET - SHANTI IS MUCH MORE SETTLED. HE GAVE ME SOME SPECIAL CLIPPERS SO THAT I CAN DO THE OTHER BIRDS AT THE SHOP PROPERLY. SKIBUM - WAS MAX LIKE SHANTI WHEN YOU GOT HIM? IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE IN CONTACT WITH SOMEONE ELSE HAS TAMED A WILD BIRD. SO FAR SO GOOD - THAT SAY...

Cool name - I Googled Indian female names and found Shanti (Sharntee) which I really like - maybe your next one ....... Jenny

I can only offer my support as I have only just got a first wild bird myself, but everyone on this site have been really great offering support and ideas. In a short time I have seen some encouraging behaviour following their advice. When I move my IRN (Shanti) I have used those tough cheap leather ...

PS - Im keen to get her on pellet food as I believe it is the best - is that right? We dont sell it at work although it is stocked - ppl seem to prefer seed. Anyway - one trauma at a time - I believe it can be a bit of a mission changing over. Re the treat comment I made earlier - she ate a good hal...

Thanks guys, this is all so encouraging - what do you mean by clicker training Lene? I am familiar with that in dogs - how does it work for birds? This arvo I sat and read on the birdroom sofa with Birdie climbing all over me and Shanti's cage in front of us open. She was on her normal high perch an...

Thanks Donna, in other words I can let my wounds heal! hahahah
Fancying myself as a bit of a Dr Dolittle with animals - its very humbling having an animal (well bird actually) that you want to lavish with kindness try and rip your heart out! chortle. Thanks again. Jenny

I manage a pet shop and a 'found' IRN was brought in New Years day while I was feeding in the shut shop. It was spied by a little girl in a shrub and Grandad was lacerated badly trying to rescue it and eventually dropped a cat cage over it to bring it in. After waiting 7 days trying to find an owner...