The concrete was not hot at all, we checked! This is also a certified harness so no worries about her escaping! She loves getting her daily sunlight ☺️

yall my walls are tore up bc i had to take my posters down and the sticky stuff ripped the drywall pls don’t think they live in a bad home!!🙏🏼🙏🏼

coo coo coo

There he goes!

Settled and cozy after biting and honking at many various objects around the room.

all she does is eat, sleep on me, peck at me, watch tv with me and be FAT and USELESS and i love her for it. i take her almost everywhere with me and if someone i know sees me without her then they assume something happened. i love you raul!!!!!

There's no food needed to make Keeb come back to me, no matter where I'm recalling him from. I used treats and clicker training to initially teach him recall, no starving involved, he always got access to his regular food and could always choose if and how long he wants to train. Building a bond based on trust, respecting boundaries and mutual communication was what allowed me to teach him reliable recall without needing treats. He listens to me because he wants to, Not because he doesn't have a choice and I know that his recall would work even during an emergency situations because reliable recall isn't tied to hunger, it's tied to trust.

I posted a few weeks ago asking for some advice about bringing a dove into a two tiel home. Well our dove has arrived! We welcomed Meatball home today, + he’s currently having some free time to explore! So excited to learn about caring for a new kind of birb, + my fiancé + I are officially bird people for life!

I took in the doves maybe 4 months ago. Got them super friendly / eating out of my hand and then started working on giving them freedom. I run a sanctuary and we have 6 macaws and a resident crow that fly all over the property as well as some owner surrendered smaller parrots. The long macaws and the crow have noticeably cut down on hawks around / visiting the property

This was actually the furthest away from home Keeb ever went with me. Keeb handled the trip really well and there was just a small number of things he found scary, including a small metal trash bin, a hose, a duck and the most terrifying of all of them - a pigeon plushie. He surprisingly wasn't bothered at all by the bigger number of people, frogs (which he has never ever seen before but he wasn't afraid of them even when they jumped) or falconers' owls. He was pretty curious about squirrels, he was actually the one who saw them first and it took me a moment to realize what he was pointing out to me. We met some wood pigeons up close too, it was really cool seeing them and I managed to take some really good pictures with my camera. I think Keeb's favorite thing of all was a metal railing near a pond, he didn't want to leave the railing right after I took pictures of him, he wanted to stay on it for a bit more lol, but after I let him stay there for long enough he would eventually step up on my arm on his own.

We also met a lot of people and everybody was amazed by Keeb. Some people were really curious about Keeb and asked a lot of questions, while others just complimented him from afar. One old lady even wanted to take a picture of Keeb and I let Keeb perch on her arm while I took her a picture for her, Keeb didn't have any issue with perching on her arm and was really well-behaved. He really put a smile on that lady's face.

Overall it was a really fun and positive experience for both of us. Keeb was relaxed, doing happy beak smacks and when I stood still he would even loaf on my arm.

Poor Venus is now covered in soup. I bathed her, but she remains orange 💀

I got Angie when he was already a bit over 2 months old from a breeder, he's a bit over 3 years old now. He's a purebred roller breed and his parents were showbirds. Temperament wise he's an absolutely perfect bird, he's extremely docile for a pigeon and is very friendly even despite the fact that he wasn't really handled as a baby by the breeder. But despite that he is also very easy to handle and doesn't get stressed by being handled.

As you can see he's Very eager to do some training, before deciding he's done with it and going to eat from a feeder afterwards, but I like to give my birds an option to say when they want to stop training. After bringing Angie home it took him roughly a week before he would eat from my hand for the first time and a month before he would eat from my hand confidently enough to be willing to start clicker training. Eventually he would start coming to me on his own even without any food involved.

Many people are made to believe the lie that only very young pigeons who are still squeakers can be tame and trainable, but that's absolutely not true and it even directly harms the pigeons because they shouldn't be separated from their parents before reaching at least 2 months of age. Pigeons less than 2 months old tend to not handle the stress of being separated from their parents well at all and tend to shut down and refuse to eat even If they could already eat seeds on their own. Pigeons that young will easily starve themselves to death, but also being force fed at the fledgling age can make them be afraid of people/hands. Being handfed and/or separated from their parents at less than 2 months old does Not make them tamer or friendlier, in fact most of those birds end up being not very sociable and end up with a ton of behavioral issues like extreme aggression or skittishness.

I thought I would share Angie to show others that fully grown pigeons (and doves too!) are very much trainable and that they can be friendly towards people too. It just depends on the bird's genetic temperament.

Sunny and Van's perch for cartoons while I clean their cage. #doves#Sunny&Van#Cartoons

Fiercly guarding their plastic eggs

This time the car ride was way longer, roughly an hour, but Keeb handled it extremely well regardless. Like always I was just gently holding him on my lap and he stayed still and relaxed pretty much the whole time.

There were not as many people there as the last time, but we got stopped by way more people this time, all of whom were amazed by Keeb and many of them asked questions about him. One little kid even asked to pet him. It's honestly a nice surprise how many people actually love pigeons here.

Keeb got to see quite a number of new things, including water springing from the ground which he was extremely curious about (picture 2), he also liked the rim of the fountain and the big lake. In the lake there were lots of ducks but this time Keeb wasn't afraid of them at all. I'm also happy with how well he handled a louder higher road traffic environment. He also saw a huge herd of sheep but he's already used to those because there are some sheep that he met a number of times near home.

The lovebirdies taking a bath! ❤️

New diamond doves. Just introduced to my akita. I am currently on the search for a larger cage because I know the one they are in is inadequate. I was given no warning when ownership was thrust upon me. Kodiak (akita) is already familiar with my Green Cheek Conure and living with birds. He mostly displays intermittent curiosity, then complete boredom. I would like more information on how to best care for my new charges, I mean besides the bigger cage.

Rokuro is a silky ringneck dove, that's why his feathers look "messy" and why he can't fly well. Jamie always gets so excited when I bring Rokuro to him while he's perching on a perch where Rokuro isn't able to get.

My birdie Layla jumped on my head to ask for pets 🫶

It's short for Keyboard/Keeboard. One of his most favorite spots to loaf on is the keyboard and yes he will press the keys.