Preparing For My First Cockatiel
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Preparing for My First Cockatiel is a guide book for you and your children to help you know what it takes to get ready for bringing home your very first cockatiel.
Unlike most books about cockatiels out there, this one doesn't try to cover everything, but stays focused on what you need to be ready for your new life with your bird.
Full of personal stories and photos, you will get to know what life with cockatiels is like from my many years living with and loving them. A fun book for anyone who loves animals!
Topics covered include:
-- Cockatiels as cockatoos
-- Primary cages
-- Travel/hospital cages (including cages for domestic & international air travel)
-- Play spaces
-- Food
-- Toys
-- Perches
-- Food dishes
-- Communicating with a new or shy cockatiel
-- Preventing psittacosis (the main disease that transmits between humans and birds)
-- Games to play with your new bird
Laurel A. Rockefeller
Born, raised, and educated in Lincoln, Nebraska USA Laurel A. Rockefeller’s passion for animals comes through in everything she writes. First self-published in 2012 as social science fiction author (the Peers of Beinan series), Laurel has expanded her work into the animal care/guide, history, historical fiction, and biography genres.Find Laurel’s books in digital, paperback, and hardcover in your choice of up to ten languages, including Welsh, Chinese, and Dutch. Audio editions are published in all four available languages for audible: English, French, Spanish, and German.Besides advocating for animals and related environmental causes, Laurel A. Rockefeller is a passionate educator dedicated to improving history literacy worldwide, especially as it relates to women’s accomplishments. In her spare time, Laurel enjoys spending time with her cockatiels, travelling to historic places, and watching classic motion pictures and classic television series.
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Preparing For My First Cockatiel - Laurel A. Rockefeller
Preparing for My First Cockatiel
A Beginner’s Guide to Starting Your Life with the World’s Most Popular Pet Cockatoo
By Laurel A. Rockefeller
SECOND EDITION
Table of Contents
Introduction
What Is A Cockatiel?
More Than a Cage
Perches and Play Spaces
Travel and Hospital Cages
Toys, Food, and Food Dishes
Getting to Know You
Images Used
Introduction
Four-week-old lutino cockatiel babies. Courtesy Henny de Vries
I love cockatiels! If there is anything anyone learns about me from the beginning it is that I love cockatiels, especially my cockatiels Mithril and Arwen.
I did not always have birds. In fact, my family is very much a dog family. But from the moment I first saw a white cockatoo, probably at the local zoo, I always wanted a parrot, especially a white cockatoo. I always loved them. Getting a bird though was not easy. Every time I asked my mother for a bird, she flatly said no. For most of my childhood I heard no. That is until my mother, exhausted by my persistence, finally offered me a deal: I could get a budgerigar (what Americans call ‘parakeets.’) if I bought the bird, his cage, his food, and cared for him myself. I also was required to learn everything possible about budgerigars and prove that I knew what I was getting myself into. And those were just the main things she wrote down on the list of what I had to do.
My mother’s intent was very clear at the time: make the terms for getting a bird so difficult that no normal child would be able to meet all the requirements. Looking back, I am glad she made it so difficult. Buying the bird myself (not easy to do when your weekly allowance for house work is only twenty-five cents) made me value him more. Doing the research along the way armed me with information that made his life happy and safe.
Even with the best information a grammar school child could find, I had a steep learning curve with first my budgerigars (1981-1996) and then my cockatiels (1996 to present). Parrots are extremely intelligent. Even the most experienced aviculturist (a person who raises companion birds) is likely to encounter new situations and challenges with individual birds.
In this guide, I will teach you how to prepare yourself and your home for your new arrival. We will talk about housing, play spaces, and foods you should have ready for your new arrival. We will also talk a little bit about what a cockatiel is and how you can make your first week with your bird as stress-free as possible.
Remember when starting this journey that no cockatiel should ever be brought into a home that already has dogs, cats, or other predatory animals in it. Predators and prey never mix, no matter how much you may think you can trust your existing pet. All it takes is one split second of lapsed attention to end the life of your most beloved feathered friend. Please do not risk the life of your bird. Believe