Hey all,

 

After another traumitizing time of getting Punkin' back into the cage, I think I've decided to at least try to train him to step on a stick or something.  I hate having to chase him and scare 'im to peices if I need to get him back in the cage before he goes in there on his own.

 

My flock consists of Pickles and Punkin', two male lovies who share a cage and Toby, a parrotlet in his own cage.  My living situation has finally let me allow the birds to be flighted without danger.  I let them out for about an hour or two a day, most days, to fly around the livingroom. 

 

Pickles is the most tame and is a velcro bird.  Toby, who I've had a little over a year, is pretty tame too.  He'll step up, sit on my finger a bit to chat...  Punkin' I've had a year this coming November, and though he's not that tame, he does enjoy being around me a lot more than he did at first.  He'll come land on my arm and hang out, land on my head...  I just can't touch him with my hands.  This is fine, except when  I have to catch him.

 

I'm thinking I should clip him and get him used to stepping up on a stick first, and then possibly to my hand.  He needs to at least be a little tame so getting him in the cage isn't so traumitizing for the poor guy.

 

What do you think?  How should I go about this?  Will it be too much for him if I leave the others flighted?  Thanks...

 

JL