But introductions: I've owned several budgerigars when I was younger, had a breeding pair of ring necked doves, and kept one of the semi hand raised offspring, and used to own a very territorial love bird. The love bird was a rescue when she was older, and I was still young and didn't really do any training with her unfortunately. I've had the hand raised dove the past 10 years, with no other birds, and when she passed I decided I wanted to try the next step up.
Seri is my first official small parrot. I adopted her at 3-4 months of age from a pet store. I visited her every weekend while she was being hand raised and spent a few hours with her each time. The day I went to pick her up, she acted like a totally different bird. She was terrified of me, wouldn't perch up like before and just kept trying to get away. Once we got home, I let her chill for a few days before trying to reintroduce. Its been more of an uphill battle than I thought it would be, but now she is fully bonded, presents her head for scratches, perches up, and is in general very sweet. To me and only me. She hates my husband, and we've tried everything we can think of to win her over, from food, to spending time near him with out interaction. Our next step is I want to try hands off target tricks with him and her.
So much for what I read about Meyers being easy going and not bonding as often. She doesn't like to fit the norm I guess.
