lauracole
02-28-2013, 09:21 AM
I first posted here about 6 months or so ago when I got a pair of lovebirds, not knowing too much about them at the time but wanting to learn. They were sold to me as a pair, but I came to find out that they really weren't. One is a peach face pied and one is a masked. I felt compelled to separate them as the peach face (Havana, aka "the diva") was being mildly aggressive to the timid masked (Caya) and I didn't want it to escalate. Neither one of them is tame, but they do enjoy coming out the cage on their own terms and will talk to me, and Havana will sit on a playset right next to me for a long period of time. They don't bite, but will run from hands. I'm OK with that because they are beautiful, comical and endlessly enjoyable to watch, even if they are not cuddly. I don't know their genders.
Recently I was picking up supplies at a local shop and there was a single, peach face lovebird there who kept running to the front of his cage and chirping at me to get my attention. It was so cute I had to ask if I could see if he was friendly and he stepped right up and ran up to my shoulder! I just couldn't resist him. I got him a separate cage and planned on him being bonded with me, I had no plans to put him with my others. I set up his cage where he could see and hear my other lovies for company while I'm out, then spent lots of time playing with him when I was home. After a few days it was clear that he really wanted to get over to Havana's cage and check her out closer. I tentatively let him, warning him that he would likely get a nip on the toe, as that is typically been Havana's behavior with other birds, but like all kids, he needed to see for himself. To my surprise, there was no open beak stance from Havana, but instead a little song and tail shaking dance! I started letting them have a little supervised time together each day and they fell quickly in love. They now live together and are inseparable.
I'm happy for them, but a little sad that the bird who I thought was destined to be "my" bird is now Havana's and is less interested in coming to me because he doesn't want to leave her side. I guess you can't control love! If I had WANTED them to bond, I probably couldn't have gotten it to happen, that's the funny part. I just had to share their story...
Recently I was picking up supplies at a local shop and there was a single, peach face lovebird there who kept running to the front of his cage and chirping at me to get my attention. It was so cute I had to ask if I could see if he was friendly and he stepped right up and ran up to my shoulder! I just couldn't resist him. I got him a separate cage and planned on him being bonded with me, I had no plans to put him with my others. I set up his cage where he could see and hear my other lovies for company while I'm out, then spent lots of time playing with him when I was home. After a few days it was clear that he really wanted to get over to Havana's cage and check her out closer. I tentatively let him, warning him that he would likely get a nip on the toe, as that is typically been Havana's behavior with other birds, but like all kids, he needed to see for himself. To my surprise, there was no open beak stance from Havana, but instead a little song and tail shaking dance! I started letting them have a little supervised time together each day and they fell quickly in love. They now live together and are inseparable.
I'm happy for them, but a little sad that the bird who I thought was destined to be "my" bird is now Havana's and is less interested in coming to me because he doesn't want to leave her side. I guess you can't control love! If I had WANTED them to bond, I probably couldn't have gotten it to happen, that's the funny part. I just had to share their story...