Charlie Boy Has Found a Forever Home

Like the title says, Charlie Boy has found a forever home.

He’s staying with us and we are very happy to have him, that now means we have four wonderful birdies that we love very much.

Charlie Boy has a huge vocabulary, and loves to sing, chat, whistle etc. It’s never dull listening to him..lol
Charlie boy has been very hard work, screams like he’s being murdered if you put your hand in his cage and he lunges and attacks you, he strips the skin off your hands with his very painful bites and he hates to come out of his cage etc.

So working with him has been a long and slow process and most of the time very painful, he’s made me cry on many of occasions

But I’ve never given up on him, I’ve slowly gained his trust to the point of being able to give him tickles through the cage bars, this as you can imagine has taken lots of patience with him, everything has to be done slowly.

Although he was in a new cage, it was thought that maybe another new cage would help, so Stevie and I decided to buy him a new cage, it has a landing platform and is bigger than the other one we were using.

Charlie boy has now very slowly started to come out and stand on the landing platform, that in it’s self is a huge step for him, he also is happy to let Rosie in his cage and have a play, he’s getting on well with Rosie and yesterday Frodo went over to Charlie boy and all went well.

He’s still very scared and nervous but he’s trying hard

But yesterday Charlie boy and I made HUGE progress, I did as I usually do, keep my hand near him, talk to him softly, no sudden movements etc, but this time instead of doing it inside the door of his cage, I did it on the landing platform and he let me give him lots and lots of head tickles, he gave me playful bites/nibbles and he put his foot on my hand twice, this is something he’s never done, it was great.

We’ve done the same thing again today, everything slow, etc and he’s let me give him lots of tickles again and he put his foot on my hand for longer.

As you can see lots of patience has worked and I’m hoping to continue to build on this, next step for him will be “step up” although I don’t think he’s ready for that just yet but I’m sure it will be soon if he keeps letting me do this with him.

He’s also now starting to let Stevie give him beak rubs, although he still will bite Stevie if gives him more than a few rubs, but Stevie is working with him on that.

I feel so proud of him as he’s come such a long way

It was definitely worth spending the money on a new cage for him and this time my tears were for joy, he’s a wonderful birdie.

Julie