Charlie loves to be busy and has several favourite toys. One of them is an old pink stud earring. It’s metal and glitters – just his specialty. He spends lots of time twirling it in his mouth, dropping it over the side of the dresser, and trying to remove the rubber stopper (he’s finally managed […]
My two cockatiels, Jupiter and Chickie, were obviously getting desperate when they took it in turns to have a bath in their drinking water, which is contained in a tiny square plastic box. Since I’d seen them do this a couple of times, I decided to give them some water they could bathe in more […]
Oh dear…well as I suspected, I appear to have psychologically damaged my cockatiels by forbidding mating in my presence. Don’t get me wrong – I allowed them to mate in my presence for about six weeks, and it went from a couple of times a day, to every three minutes for a couple of hours […]
Have you ever been outwitted by a cockatiel? Years ago, I kept hand-reared, tame cockatiels which make great companions, though somewhat mischievous. They made cute little bite marks in any pieces of paper I was remiss enough to leave around, and joyfully nipped all the leaves off my Madonna Lilies if I left them within […]
I have a couple of young cockatiels, under six months old. It turns out that the boy is a girl and the girl, a boy. I have no issue with that – they’re both the lovliest little birds and very affectionate. I found out I had their gender wrong when I noticed that the boy […]
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Theresa Sjoquist
