Reply #40: that is the most beautiful bird!! [View All]

I have never seen one like that before.

I know why cockatiels are so popular, because my little guy is the best-natured little tyke ever. He was given to me by someone who had cats and they were afraid the cats would get him because he didn't have an adequate cage. He was only my second bird, the conure being the first...the conure bossed him around all the time because Connie (the green cheek) was so dominant. Chicken Little handled it well, but now he is king of the mountain being alone and I don't want to bring another bird in on him and knock him out of top position. I have a mini-lop and they stay in my cabin together all day. They never have bonded like I though they would but I do think they like knowing the other is there.

I really would like to have some gouldian finches...but I have sworn to myself *no more exotics* once the two that I have pass away. My mini-lop came from an animal shelter and he is six years old, so he probably has another few years at most. My cockatiel is quite young, I hope he will be around another 20-25 years but you never know. He is an extremely hardy bird...he deals well with the extremes of temperature in my cabin where it can be 80 in the summer or 60 in the winter; it doesn't seem to phase him at all but that's probably because he came from less than ideal circumstances where he was actually stuffed in a corner and his cage was covered 24 hours a day...it was pitiful.