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From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Looking for a newsgroup focused more on pet birds.
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Date: 19 Sep 90 18:31:41 GMT
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In article <804@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>,
bigbroth@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (James M. Coleman) writes:
> Does anyone reading know of a newsgroup focused more on pet birds?  My SO and I
> have a pair of cockatiels.  We purchased each of the birds while my SO was in
> Florida working a temporary job.  We are now together and after three months my
> bird doesn't like my SO and her bird doesn't like me.
> 

Sigh, I hope this doesn't start up the whole in/out issue again...Please.

Anyway, Try to put INDOOR in the beginning of your posting that will help
for starters.

> Does anyone have suggestions on improving the birds' dispositions?  My bird
> runs away from my SO but her bird attacks me and her.  My SO didn't have this
> biting problem with Melin until she came back.  Melin also has a problem 
> with the toilet - whenever it is flushed he starts screamming.  The birds have
> separate cages and are allowed outside their cages about 5 hours a day.
> 

How old are the birds?  They might each consider their particular person
to be their "mate".  In which case the bird will try to bite the other person,
and sometimes bite the person they are sitting on.  It's their way of keeping
you in line.  Pick up a BirdTalk magazine there are always a zillion articles
in there talking about how to modify your birds behvior.  You can do it.

> Merlin, my cockatiel, sneezes quite often.  His nose however IS NOT runny.
> Should I be alarmed about this?
> 

You probably should get your bird look at by an Avian Vet.  Note: normals
vets don't know much more about birds than you put flour on them before frying.
There is probably not much wrong with your bird, but it always pays to get
it looked at.


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