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I got a second budgie a week and a half ago. My boyfriend accidentally broke the quarantine period -- I suppose I didn't make it clear enough to him that they had to remain in separate rooms (sigh). Anyway, I've had the new budgie (Lunara) out at the same time as Sawyer.
Sawyer is not fond of the budgies, I'd already learned this when I introduced him to Feathermoon. He basically just snapped at him, and that was the end of that. I haven't had them together since then.
Just now I had Sawyer up on my shoulder and Lunara was hopping around on the shelf next to my computer. She'd been sitting still for a bit, but suddenly she hopped onto a book, then hopped off the shelf onto Sawyer's back.
Sawyer began screeching and they started to fight a bit... I have no idea exactly what happened since it was over my shoulder almost onto my back so I couldn't see, but I freaked out and yelled, Sawyer leaped off my shoulder and glided to the floor (his wings were clipped, but the flight feathers are coming back in now). My cat was on the floor so she zooms across the room to see what's going on until I yell at her to get out (which she does), and I scoop up Sawyer who's got his wings out and is huffing like a mad man. Basically a lot of action in less than 30 seconds. @[email protected]
I passed it off as a one-time thing thinking she was trying to hop over to my arm and landed wrong, and put Lunara back on the shelf. Sawyer is back up on my shoulder when she does it again, jumps onto my arm, climbs up it and purposefully jumps onto his back. Obviously I've had enough at this point, so Lunara goes back into her cage. I highly doubt I'll have them out at the same time again.
Neither of them are injured -- Sawyer is up on my shoulder preening his tail now... What the heck happened there, though? I never expected Lunara to be so gutsy. She's sort of young, maybe about four months old. I've never had a female bird before, though (and I'm still just guessing on her, since she's young), so is it just a female thing, she's being a bossy brat, or what? @[email protected]
(Edit: Maybe this belongs in another subforum. I'm not quite sure!)
Sawyer is not fond of the budgies, I'd already learned this when I introduced him to Feathermoon. He basically just snapped at him, and that was the end of that. I haven't had them together since then.
Just now I had Sawyer up on my shoulder and Lunara was hopping around on the shelf next to my computer. She'd been sitting still for a bit, but suddenly she hopped onto a book, then hopped off the shelf onto Sawyer's back.
Sawyer began screeching and they started to fight a bit... I have no idea exactly what happened since it was over my shoulder almost onto my back so I couldn't see, but I freaked out and yelled, Sawyer leaped off my shoulder and glided to the floor (his wings were clipped, but the flight feathers are coming back in now). My cat was on the floor so she zooms across the room to see what's going on until I yell at her to get out (which she does), and I scoop up Sawyer who's got his wings out and is huffing like a mad man. Basically a lot of action in less than 30 seconds. @[email protected]
I passed it off as a one-time thing thinking she was trying to hop over to my arm and landed wrong, and put Lunara back on the shelf. Sawyer is back up on my shoulder when she does it again, jumps onto my arm, climbs up it and purposefully jumps onto his back. Obviously I've had enough at this point, so Lunara goes back into her cage. I highly doubt I'll have them out at the same time again.
Neither of them are injured -- Sawyer is up on my shoulder preening his tail now... What the heck happened there, though? I never expected Lunara to be so gutsy. She's sort of young, maybe about four months old. I've never had a female bird before, though (and I'm still just guessing on her, since she's young), so is it just a female thing, she's being a bossy brat, or what? @[email protected]
(Edit: Maybe this belongs in another subforum. I'm not quite sure!)