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Budgie wrangling
We used to have half a dozen budgies free-flying in one of the bedrooms, but as the boys got older and Kelvin left home and several of the birds died of old age (age 10 is pretty good for a budgie) we were finally left with just Zathras. He's in a cage downstairs now, so that he at least has human company.
However, we feel guilty about not letting him fly free, so about once a week, we let him out for a few hours. The hard part, is getting him back in the cage. He never seems to be hungry enough to go back on his own (we can't leave him out forever as people are going in and out the room and he might fly out the door) and he's a nifty flyer.
It's a two man and a sheet job to get him back again. I fend him off one curtain rail and Henry hovers under the rail at the far end of the room with an old sheet to fling over him.
It usually takes around 15 minutes...
However, we feel guilty about not letting him fly free, so about once a week, we let him out for a few hours. The hard part, is getting him back in the cage. He never seems to be hungry enough to go back on his own (we can't leave him out forever as people are going in and out the room and he might fly out the door) and he's a nifty flyer.
It's a two man and a sheet job to get him back again. I fend him off one curtain rail and Henry hovers under the rail at the far end of the room with an old sheet to fling over him.
It usually takes around 15 minutes...