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He likes his nose rubbed sometimes when he's being pet, this time it made himself sneeze and it got in my eye and now my eye kinda hurts, do I wait or rinse or keep rubbing it or what?

Hi there, my wife and I recently got a hand raised cockatiel. We got the cockatiel when he/she (we don’t know the sex yet) was about 12 weeks old and we’ve had it for 3 weeks now. I think it’s gotten really comfortable with me since I work from home and I put the tiel on my desk while I work and...

Hi there, my wife and I recently got a hand raised cockatiel. We got the cockatiel when he/she (we don’t know the sex yet, the person who bought the cockatiel from said he was likely a male but unsure, and we won’t know til the first molt) was about 12 weeks old and we’ve had it for 3 weeks now...

I have had a cockatiel for years now, and she used to let me pet her until she would get annoyed but she would always love being pet moving her head round and even going in her ears. But nowadays she won’t even let me attempt to pet her. She gets very angry and either flies away or attacks me...

I've had my female cockatiel - Tequila (Tiki), for almost two years now. For about the past 9 months, I've been dating my boyfriend, Justin, and it was shortly after Tequila met him that she stopped liking me. Before Justin came along, Tiki loved my pets. She openly welcomed them with her head...

My Ziggy is very odd.. He spends TONS of time out of his cage. When I let him out, he crawls all over me and loves being talked to. I've tried petting him and giving him scratches but he absolutely hates it. He will bite me until I stop... Is this normal? He is such an attention hog but it...

Just thought I'd share, my cockatiel let me pet him on the head for the first time tonight. I spent about 15 minutes petting his head and he was singing and whistling the whole time. It was pretty exciting!