Senegals

[The Nest Gang]

I have been asked by a lady on another forum if I could give her disabled senegal a home. She has major medical issues and is rehoming all her birds as she is no longer able to care for them and is almost bedridden. Looks like I will be making a trip to WV within a week. :smiles:Actually she has 2 but I don't know if I can handle Paulie. Here is what she has to say about each.

"Paulie is aggressive and hates men with a passion. He will need a woman who is not afriad to take a bit or 10 or 20 until he learns to trust you. I can instruct you on ways to NOT GET BIT at all. He loves affection while he is in the cage and the door is closed but once you open the cage door he gets aggressive and can jump you with out warning. I can teach you how to deal with that. He gets along a little with Boo but they must be supervised as Paulie will just attack suddenly and they will need to be seperated fast.


Peanut is handicapped but is the most lovable parrot in the world. He / She is a clown and loves to do acrobatics in your lap. She loves to cuddle up under your chin. She is not Good with children or other animals and will attack children and other animals. She has splayed legs and needs special perches and equipment which I will provide."

As I said I don't think Paulie would work but I will see how we interact with him when I get there. Then again, we might hit it right off. Peanut is the one I will definitely be bring back with me.

So Anyway.. I am looking for information on Senegals. Or anyone who has one and can give me any insight on noise level, attitude and care. I have done research on the internet but its always better to talk to someone who lives with one to get a better idea.

Any and all advice is welcome! :dancered:

[EasySpirit]

I have been asked by a lady on another forum if I could give her disabled senegal a home. She has major medical issues and is rehoming all her birds as she is no longer able to care for them and is almost bedridden. Looks like I will be making a trip to WV within a week. :smiles:Actually she has 2 but I don't know if I can handle Paulie. Here is what she has to say about each.

"Paulie is aggressive and hates men with a passion. He will need a woman who is not afriad to take a bit or 10 or 20 until he learns to trust you. I can instruct you on ways to NOT GET BIT at all. He loves affection while he is in the cage and the door is closed but once you open the cage door he gets aggressive and can jump you with out warning. I can teach you how to deal with that. He gets along a little with Boo but they must be supervised as Paulie will just attack suddenly and they will need to be seperated fast.


Peanut is handicapped but is the most lovable parrot in the world. He / She is a clown and loves to do acrobatics in your lap. She loves to cuddle up under your chin. She is not Good with children or other animals and will attack children and other animals. She has splayed legs and needs special perches and equipment which I will provide."

As I said I don't think Paulie would work but I will see how we interact with him when I get there. Then again, we might hit it right off. Peanut is the one I will definitely be bring back with me.

So Anyway.. I am looking for information on Senegals. Or anyone who has one and can give me any insight on noise level, attitude and care. I have done research on the internet but its always better to talk to someone who lives with one to get a better idea.

Any and all advice is welcome! :dancered:



Sennies are nice birds, can learn to talk and can be a little nippy. They are a beautiful color. I would check to see if Paulie has his wings clipped. If not that would be in order to initially deal with the issues. There are several reasons for aggression. One book that is most helpful is by Barbara Heidenreich of Goodbird,inc.com Her book on aggression is called the parrot problem solver.

First things first is to let Paulie settle into the new environment. There is fear aggression, being territorial, displaced aggression etc. All require a calm approach. Treats to entice them towards positive behavior. Excited praise when anything positive is done. We are very good about pointing out the wrongs, but we generally are not as good at pointing out positive behavior.

When they birds come to your home they need to get a feel for their environment. The cage placement, perch placement, shelter from high acitivity areas can make a difference. Once a bird feels somewhat secure, they start showing who they really are. Having other birds sometimes helps as they see the praise others get so he may be more accepting.

Let us know once you have them and what they are like.

I too have two handicapped birds...one with no feet and another with a broken leg which was never repaired. Gracie gets around by climbing on the bars of the cage. She has a corner perch. She has even learned to sit on a boing as long as it is curled tight enough down low where her one foot holds under her and the broken leg which sticks straight out holds onto the upward curve. She can even make it swing. I also have a sandblasted manzanita perch which has nice branches that curve out, forms a y junction ....she balances between the two. It even has a flat spot where another branch had been cut off. She likes to sit there and even splashes water and sits in the little bit there is.

good luck with your new one(s)

me:hihihi:

[Evelyn]

I have been asked by a lady on another forum if I could give her disabled senegal a home. She has major medical issues and is rehoming all her birds as she is no longer able to care for them and is almost bedridden. Looks like I will be making a trip to WV within a week. :smiles:Actually she has 2 but I don't know if I can handle Paulie. Here is what she has to say about each.

"Paulie is aggressive and hates men with a passion. He will need a woman who is not afriad to take a bit or 10 or 20 until he learns to trust you. I can instruct you on ways to NOT GET BIT at all. He loves affection while he is in the cage and the door is closed but once you open the cage door he gets aggressive and can jump you with out warning. I can teach you how to deal with that. He gets along a little with Boo but they must be supervised as Paulie will just attack suddenly and they will need to be seperated fast.


Peanut is handicapped but is the most lovable parrot in the world. He / She is a clown and loves to do acrobatics in your lap. She loves to cuddle up under your chin. She is not Good with children or other animals and will attack children and other animals. She has splayed legs and needs special perches and equipment which I will provide."

As I said I don't think Paulie would work but I will see how we interact with him when I get there. Then again, we might hit it right off. Peanut is the one I will definitely be bring back with me.

So Anyway.. I am looking for information on Senegals. Or anyone who has one and can give me any insight on noise level, attitude and care. I have done research on the internet but its always better to talk to someone who lives with one to get a better idea.

Any and all advice is welcome! :dancered:



How good of you to take Peanut! Paulie sounds like a real challenge, and I doubt I would be up to it, but it's the least loveable ones that need love the most.

Evelyn

[bonnie]

As I said I don't think Paulie would work but I will see how we interact with him when I get there. Then again, we might hit it right off.

One of the biggest lessons I learned when I went to visit Anna (FoxersArtist) last week was that the bird chooses it's human. We can love a bird to death and want it very badly, but in the end, if the bird doesn't like us we can't do anything about it. On the same note, we can't control which bird will love us either!
I was supposed to be bringing home Rico, a Migelan Conure Anna is fostering. We had talked about him several times. She told me he is a love and she thought he would be perfect for me. When I got there he bit me the first time I tried to step him up and the few other times I tried he didn't like me at all. Needless to say, he's still waiting for a parront.
However, a U2 she is fostering named Goofy just fell in love with me. Goofy is hard to handle and bites, but not me. She was such a love. She didn't get to come home either, but she did love me...

[The Nest Gang]

Bonnie I totally agree, she said Peanut loves everybody, while Paulie is more reserved and happier in his cage. So I am told her we would wait and see how Paulie interacts with me. I already have my dream bird a CAG named Rocky that was given to me because the daughter was jealous of it. After getting him home we discovered something else...he hates women. Evidently the 16 year old must have been tormenting or picking at him because if I get close he is after me (and not just me, my daughter and any woman who walks close to his cage he actually hisses at!). He will talk to me and ask me for drinks and crackers but when I get close to his cage I'm dead meat. He has been with me since last June, although he adores my husband. They are inseparable when he's home. So I admire from afar.

[Sashagirl]

Von

I think all things are possible for Paulie.I am owned by quite a flock.My one Senegal is Sydney and her story is a sad story my bestfriend rescued her from a Petstore from the creazy cage.That was the cage where all the unsocialized birds were just thrown in and kept together.
When she first came home with Stephanie she was the worse bird to have around we both suffered many bites.And her trust issues were bad she would lay on her back and scream and just submit to whatever was going to happen to her.My girlfriend's husband was allergic to the birds and almost died and so I agreed to take all her birds.There was quite a few.There was fear on both sides Sydney afraid of me and me afraid of Sydney.It took a while but one day she flew and landed on my shoulder after some time and without a bite.She has been with me now about 11 years.
She's okay with people just not with other birds.I can't say I blame her considering what she came from.I think in her mind she feels she's back in the crazy cage defending herself against those other birds.She has come a long way since that day.;)


Marcia

[The Nest Gang]

Thank you Marcia for sharing that with me. And I am keeping a open mind when I go up there. If Paulie seems the least interested in me, or if by the time I get up there the lady has run out of options I will be bringing back two instead of one. :rolleyes:

All I can say is hubby better get busy on my bird building he's make for my breeders next to the house. I am running out of room!!:eek:

[too&me]

We have a little blue parakeet that was hatched with badly splayed legs, he has no idea he is disabled, I put lots of angular & curved branches in their cage to make it easy for him to perch & get around. Very sweet little guy, he often hangs by one foot which most parakeets don't do often. He is very social with both his parakeet buddy & the Cockatiels.