Cockatiel Bird
About two weeks ago we purchased a Cockatiel bird from a nearby pet store. Although pet store’s aren’t normally the best choice for a pet, due to the fact of animal farms and that they may not be used to human hands from sitting there so long.. I still believe that this little bird deserves a nice home. He’s settled in pretty good, loves eating and isn’t “too” friendly yet, but I can still hold him, he just pecks a bit and then gets over it.
I want to handle him more and more until he feels really comfortable. He lets me pet the back of his head and is already copying some short tunes that I whistle to him. My uncle had one that whistled the Andy Griffith theme song and it was pretty neat. I want to try and advance my bird to something like that as well. He isn’t hard to take care of at all and my daughter loves him! I’m still not too sure of a name yet but when I ask my daughter what his name should be, she says “birdy” haha I don’t know, I’m just going to think about it a little more.
The people in the pet store said that he is under a year.. that’s good, some Cockatiels can live up to 20 something years! Mine will probably end up living longer though.. my animals always live long. One of my cats is a little over 15!!!
