Ash the Cockatiel
by Cara
(Ohio)
Ash during a taming session. I actually took off the gloves I use to tame him!
Once my parakeet CC died, I decided to get a new type of bird. I always loved tiels and heard about their easy train ability and how loving they were. So I went to a pet store and immediately fell in love with a white-faced tiel. We took him home and I started bonding with him. He ended up getting the name Ash, due to his color.
I had started taming Ash, but I stupidly stopped. Now he's mean and bitey but he's getting better now that I'm taming him again. He's really a sweet bird and if I can sneak past him he enjoys his head being rubbed as all tiels do.
Ash, though not very hand friendly, loves talking to me. He'll greet me or tweet a few goodbyes to me whenever I enter or leave the room. He can say my name, birdie, meow, thank you (which he says a lot when being fed), and a few other things along with imitating the microwave, the oven (his favorite thing to imitate), a squeaky toy, and a few other things.
He loves playing with cat jingle balls! He'll pick a ball up and climb up his ladder then drop it and do it all over again. It's funny watching him do it.
He loves sunflower seeds and millet spray. I can't find any other treats he'll eat except a slice of apple on occasion and it has to be from a certain type of pie that we bought.
Overall, life with Ash is fun and exciting. He loves flying around the bathroom and talking to me from the curtain rod while in training/taming sessions and loves talking to himself in the bathroom mirror.
The mirror/perch in his cage which he loved to death finally broke a few days ago and he looks so sad now and sleeps on top of his food and water dishes even though we got him a new mirror (different type though).
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