Hrund

Has anyone tried this, AirFree http://www.airfree.com/index_usa.htm , it doesn´t use filters. On the page it says"Airfree incinerates microorganisms at its heated capillaries. Contaminated air is dragged into Airfree’s ceramic core by air convection and microorganisms are destroyed at high temperatures regardless of how resistant and dangerous they might be." When I was a kid I was allergic to birds and I used to have asthma, I´m a bit worried that with time I might get it back so I really want to get an air purifier.

Thanks everyone We would like our birds to be pets, we clearly have to think this more thoroughly. I just feel so sorry for Mandla and would like to give her a good home. We don´t want them to breed and were thinking that since they got along before it would be good for them to have each other and of course it would be good for them but.... we want them as pets. Is there someone here on the forum that has more than one grey that are good friends but still bonded with their humans? Is it perhaps more likely if the birds are handfed?

Hello everyone It´s been a while now since I wrote last about Nökkvi. Things are still going really well. He takes everything we offer him from our hands and really seems to like to taste new foods. We haven´t tried to have him step up and if he thinks we are going to touch him he moves away but I can see that he his trusting us more and more, we are really happy with how things are going. Nökkvi was a breeding bird before we got him but was taken out of breeding because nothing happened with him and the female he lived with. The female was sold away and Nökkvi came to us. Yesterday I was browsing the webpage of the store that we bought Nökkvi from ( I haven´t looked at that page since we got Nökkvi) and I noticed that they had a 6 year old female TAG named Mandla for sale. I immediately suspected that this was Nökkvi´s female friend, what a coincidence that I looked at the webpage at that time because she had just been put there the day before, it seemed like a message to me.... Well today me and my boyfriend went to look at Mandla and I was right it was Nökkvi´s friend. The people that bought her had some money problems and had to sell her. We immediately fell in love with her, she is much smaller than he is, with big round eyes, really feminine, the cutest thing. She growled at us and was really scared but still she whistled to my boyfriend when he whistled to her. We have decided that we want to buy her, the store is not open tomorrow but we will go and finalize things on friday. The store owner doesn´t know very much about them but they are both 6 years old and imported from Great Britain. They got along really well so I was wondering how it would be when they meet up again, will they remember each other? They have been apart for some months now. They were in the same cage when they lived together, would it be possible again? She is half tamed like him, will it be more difficult to tame them if they are together?? It seems like this was meant to be, I feel sorry for her to have to change owners so often but with us she will have a permanent home. It will be really nice to get another bird .<br><br>Post edited by: Hrund, at: 2008/12/10 22:32

I´ve always loved animals, cats, dogs and horses especially. We had two parakeets when I was a kid and I was allergic to them so owning a bird never crossed my mind. I have a very good friend that loves animals like I do and we both breed Norwegian forest cats. She has a wonderful cockatiel that me and my boyfriend fell in love with. Through her we got a male cockatiel, Dracco, that wasn´t very friendly. We were a bit disapointed and decided to get another one. We went to a petstore and got another cockatiel, Daisy. At the petstore we saw a lot of wonderful birds. My boyfriend wanted a African Grey since he was a teenager and we really liked the CAG´s we saw at the petstore. There was also another type of AG in the store, a smaller one. The owner told us he was a Timneh grey. We felt really sorry for him because every time someone came into the store, he went off into a corner of his cage and screamed loudly. We had the owner of the store put us on a waiting list for a baby CAG, he told us it could be up to 1 or 2 years until we could get a baby. My boyfriend went back to the store a few days later to buy some toys for our birds. He discussed the TAG with the owner and the man said we could take him home for a week or two and see if we wanted to keep him. We discussed this that night and the day after we went and got Nökkvi. He was so scared the poor guy, there was not a chance in hell that I would have him go back to the store. We have had him for a litle more than 3 months now and he seems to be really happy, we love him very much and really enjoy having him around.

Nökkvi did this when I first got him and I wasn´t sure why he did this. As time passed he stopped doing it as often. Now he only does it when our cats come too close to his cage, he also sometimes does this when he is really excited and wants to go out of the cage.

When I first got Nökkvi (he is 6 years old) I was worried that he didn´t know how to play. He came with one toy that he didn´t touch. We bought lots of toys for him and he didn´t even look at them. I spent some time playing in front of him but nothing happened. After he had been with us for a few weeks he started to play all of a sudden, he clearly knew how but just didn´t want to at first. Now he plays all the time, his favorite toys are the ones he can tear apart with his beak. You just have to give Gerorge some time to get used to you and his new surroundings. On the other hand I know exacly how you feel, you want everything to go well and you want the bird to be happy, I felt the same way, but patience is the key word.

Whistle back to him when he whistles to you, it will make him bond to you faster.

Hello I have a 6 year old TAG that I´ve had for 2 months now. In the beginning we tried to have him step up and got him out of the cage without him wanting to come out because he just wanted to stay there. It didn´t make me feel good and not my bird Nokkvi either. After about two weeks of having him and nothing working out I decided to take it slowly and not push him at all, let him make the decisions. We sat by his cage, talked to him, sang to him and played music. Slowly things started to happen. We had his cage open whenever we were home. At first he didn´t come out but then he started to every once in a while and then more often. We gave him toys he could tear apart and he played with them, also he enjoyed getting warm musli in the morning. We have had Nokkvi for about two months now, a few days ago there was a breakthrough and I got the proof that patience pays off. He started taking treats and toys from our hands. He has been afraid of hands but now we can get closer to him :cheer: , it brought us such happiness. I think the best thing is to give your bird time and some choices. Get as close as you can but as soon as you feel he is uncomfortable back off. Build upp trust. I read somewhere that you have to think of it as a trust bank, you put as much in the bank as you can and it will pay off, you have to try not to take out of the bank.

Wow, how amazing, I got tears in my eyes reading that. This is really a good week . Congratulations, it´s so wonderful to hear when such a breakthrough happens.

Thank you so much everyone, for the good comments, advice and stories, it´s so good to learn from them. I´m so happy that our patience is paying off and it´s just getting better. Nökkvi was in his cage earlier playing with a toy, he dropped it and I picked it up and gave it to him and he took it :cheer: . We kept playing like that for a while, he took the toy played with it dropped it and I gave it to him again. It´s so great to be able to interact with him, what a feeling and I´m sure he is happier too.

Hello everyone Something really exciting has happened so I just have to write about it here. We´ve had Nökkvi for two months now. When we got him he was really scared (still is) and we couldn´t get very close to him. We tried to train him by making him step up but that didn´t go too well. So we decided not to push him anymore. For 1 and a half month now we have just let him out when he wanted to, talked to him, sang to him and played music to him. He has a lot of toys that he plays with. Also I´ve been giving him more variety of foods. Just this morning I was thinking if this was going to work out. Not because of us but because of him, I was worried that he was lonely and needed more contact and felt bad because he didn´t want it from us. We have a big cage where our two cocatiels are and Nökkvi likes to go there and sit on top of their cage. This evening my boyfriend took some Swedish hardbread and offered to Nökkvi and he took it from his hand! The first time ever, he has always been so afraid of our hands and started to growl when we get too close. Then I tried and gave him a nut that he also took. This makes us feel so good and shows that he is starting to trust us. Now we´ll just have to be careful and not go too fast with him.

He he he yes, thank goodness, I´ve had him for about 6 weeks and at the beginning he would growl like crazy at me. I´m very happy that he doesn´t anymore, I see it as a sign that he´s starting to trust me. It certanly isn´t a very nice sound :ohmy:

My Nökkvi is a TAG .

My TAG growls like the TAG on the video, he does it low like that sometimes but when he gets really annoyed he growls a lot louder. I had some friends over tonight and they stood by his cage, he really didn´t like it and growled so loud they got scared. He doesn´t growl at me anymore.

My TAG growls when he doesn´t like something. When we got him first he was really afraid and growled very loudly when we came close to the cage. Now he just makes a very low growl when he doesn´t like something. It´s only when strangers come to the house now that he makes the loud growl. When he was at the petstore we bought him from he would growl loudly every time someone came into the store... poor guy.