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Originally Posted by Katzyn  Blackrose, just be warned, if you do get him another tiel playmate, if they get along, he might turn to the other tiel, rather than you. This is what happened with my male. I bought the female first, then, six months later, bought a male for her. At first, I kept them separate, so I could train the male, and then, we got along great, but when I put the two together, the male can think of nothing but "his" female. Even now, they are in separate cages, but he'll have nothing to do with me; all he thinks about it her. =P He doesn't bite (I taught him that if he bites, his world shakes), but he doesn't want anything to do with me, which sucks. =/
This is just my personal experience. If you and Joey have a good relationship, and you can spare a couple of hours a day to letting him hang out near or on you, then he probably is fine being the only bird. |
We have an okay relationship. He doesn't like being handled a bunch, but does enjoy getting his head rubbed. The thing that I feel the most guilty about is that he is almost never out of his cage. We keep it down in our front room so their is a constant stream of people (when we are home) and he is right by the paino which between me, my brother, and my sister, is almost always occupied in the evening.
So while he is downstairs and by people when we are home, he can't come out of the cage because of the cat and dogs.
I've though about rehoming him, but I'm just loath to do that, espeically when he seems content. (He doesn't have any distructive behaviors and enjoys chatting with us.)
We'll see, I suppose. He may not even be coming with me whenever I move out in the future - my mom really likes him and they strike up conversations mostly centered around how pretty of a bird Joey is (his favorite thing to say is, "Joey's a pretty bird!" and then wolf whistle LOL).
