Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!ukma!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ls1i+ From: ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Cockatiels Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 88 19:02:02 GMT References: <1521@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu>, <1107@leah.Albany.Edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: <1107@leah.Albany.Edu> >Well, he'll sit on stranger's hands or arms for a little while, but > he seems nervous. He'll get nervous with me too, but not all the time. > I'm always gentle with him. Is this the way to "train" them, or should > I be "rouger" (to a point!). No, no, no, no, no, no. Bite your tongue! You must be as kind and gentle as humanly possible at all times. Otherwise he will never get to realize that you are friend and will never hurt him.. >> Is the cockatiel a baby? The ones I've seen here, they get used to >> people before they sell them. > He's a few months old (maybe a year). Then he can't be a hand-fed baby. You mention that he is nervous around people. If someone took the time to feed the baby by hand, then he would constantly be comfortable in the company of people.