Buddy Buddies 😃

[ladybird]

Thought I would update you on Buddy who calls himself Buddy Buddies.  He is a lovely budgie and growing up fast. He is very tame and very attached to me.  But he Is quite a nervous little bud , being easily scared of new objects.  He loves to play in the bay window and happily sits in his play gym watching the birds especially loving the pigeons. He loves to fly round and round a lot .   If I try to leave the room he makes a quick dash and lands on my head. …..He doesn’t like being touched, but loves me to kiss him all over and rub my nose all around his neck.   He is talking a bit…he says Buddy Buddies ( no idea where that came from lol) …give us a kiss….good boy….hello…gorgeous boy.     He is never going to be the amazing talker that Charlie was  but we love him just the same . His first moult has taken a long time but seems to be finally over so I just thought I would show you some pictures of our little Buddy Buddies!

[ffiscool]

Aww gorgeous boy. I’m so glad you have him. You never know, he may well pick up more vocabulary

[Loz]

You and your OH are Buddy Buddies. He's talking about you two!

[tweetiepiesmom]

Such a cutie pie and great pal! Does he like all shiny things or just your jewelry?

[Ira]

Aww he is such a gorgeous little guy! 💛

[blueelephant]

He's lovely! I'm glad he has settled so well.

[criswell]

Buddy is lovely. Maybe he's too busy playing to think about talking. Sounds like he's settled in wonderfully. The pictures are super.

[Hezz]

Sweet!

[ladybird]

This is where he likes to be…looking at the birds…or swinging off the mirror 🙂

[ladybird]

He has become very nippy with my hands and it really does hurt….I have been shooing him off with a firm no but it doesn’t seem to be working. He will be going through adolescence so this is probably a factor, but I need to stop the biting , so any advice would be welcome please. Not had this problem with a bud before.

[Loz]

If mine become bitey, I try the Ackack approach which rarely works.
After trying that, I blow on them. They become so indignant that they usually pause their savagery.

With Gurgeh the other day, I had to pull my hand away in a bit of a tug o' war. He had a really good hold on my finger, the little brigand. I offer him fewer opportunities to bite now but he hasn't been quite as homicidal since that occasion.

[blueelephant]

We did an ack, stern face and tipping Finlay off my hand whenever she tried to bite. I am sure you are right and it will be an adolescence thing.

[ladybird]

The ack definitely doesn’t work so I will try blowing on him .   It worries me because he definitely likes me to kiss his belly and the top of his head…but if he was to bite me there 😳😳😵‍💫!

[Marianne Marlow]

What a gorgeous boy and so friendly too.

[tweetiepiesmom]

Try having a toy with you at all times. When he bites you, make the ack noise, put him off your hand and offer him the toy to bite. I do think he'll grow out of it but in the meantime you need to discourage the biting.