New food and water dishes...

[lalalittlelovebird]

I finally replaced the plastic food dishes that came with Echo's cage. I now have two nice stainless steel dishes. I put the new dishes where the old ones were but I have not seen him go eat yet.

Other than that I've had one happy birdie today. I did not have enough patience to wait to put his new stuff in his cage and all day I've heard his cute quiet chirps he makes when he's content.

Anyway about the dishes if I don't notice him eating should I change them back tomorrow or just wait?

[lalalittlelovebird]

Nevermind, go figure I wait all day to post that and then right after I do he decides to go eat. Such a silly bird.

[linda040899]

You are lucky that Echo is so easy going! I've learned from my different pairs that some birds are color sensitive and really DO care if you change out one thing for another, while others are OK with just about anything you offer! I, personally, prefer stainless, as it always comes clean and residue doesn't stick to it.

[lalalittlelovebird]

He really is a great little bird. So happy today, he keeps doing his cute variety of quiet chirps back at me as I talk to him, he's loving everything I got for him. It's just a little too bad that's as far as it gets with us though, he's still pretty big on the no physical contact.

[linda040899]

I can relate to interact but no touch! Ginger, my CAG, has been with me since 1991. She's also wild caught rather than domestically raised. She loves to be around me and interact but she's always been strictly hands off. She will take food from my fingers but will bite if I even attempt to go any further with her. She's happy with our relationship and I can accept that. I enjoy her for who she is and respect her wishes.

[lalalittlelovebird]

Echo, according to his band was bred here in Ohio and isn't wild caught, but he definetly wasn't well socialized or he must have had something traumatic happen to him before I got him. When I first got him he'd go screaming to the other side of his cage when I'd so much as get close to his cage, now he loves talking back and forth with me and doesn't freak out when I put my hands in his cage, he will of course be quite far away from my hands but he doesn't freak. If anything he's still just nervous, he never bites. And, when he's out of his cage and on the floor he does eventually step up on my hands to go to his cage.

I'm just working on gaining his full trust and I can't wait for that day to come, but until then I'm happy when he's happy.