Wendy Cooper-Wolfe
Regular Member
Hello, Good luck with your quest, and I hope you find the right bird for both you and your wife.
Just to help with another case history - we have a Senegal that we have had since she was about 8 months old - found in the pet section of a garden centre in a floor standing cage (just the right height for kiddies fingers to poke at her etc) When we brought her home she was immediately happy with my husband but took about 4 months to be comfortable with me (oh the tears of frustration at trying to bond and get her to step up!)
He was retired but I was still working and so at that point we shared her care as much as possible, we are now both retired and she is now bonded fairly equally with both of us (but we in the long drawn out process of relocating so she has either him or me and sometimes both).
She rarely bites my husband, but I usually bear a few nip marks to my hands as Im usually the one to be holding whatever it is SHE wants. However, as far as I can tell she is NOT a typical Senegal. She can be flighty but usually is quite calm, generally well behaved and doesnt destroy much, she doesnt play all that much either. She chatters and if she cant see us she will whistle and shout but in general is not very noisy. I think most of this is because she spends almost all of her time with one of us, carefully observing (and commenting) on what we are doing and so we have learnt her body language and she gets our full attention most of the time.
Just to help with another case history - we have a Senegal that we have had since she was about 8 months old - found in the pet section of a garden centre in a floor standing cage (just the right height for kiddies fingers to poke at her etc) When we brought her home she was immediately happy with my husband but took about 4 months to be comfortable with me (oh the tears of frustration at trying to bond and get her to step up!)
He was retired but I was still working and so at that point we shared her care as much as possible, we are now both retired and she is now bonded fairly equally with both of us (but we in the long drawn out process of relocating so she has either him or me and sometimes both).
She rarely bites my husband, but I usually bear a few nip marks to my hands as Im usually the one to be holding whatever it is SHE wants. However, as far as I can tell she is NOT a typical Senegal. She can be flighty but usually is quite calm, generally well behaved and doesnt destroy much, she doesnt play all that much either. She chatters and if she cant see us she will whistle and shout but in general is not very noisy. I think most of this is because she spends almost all of her time with one of us, carefully observing (and commenting) on what we are doing and so we have learnt her body language and she gets our full attention most of the time.