well when i first started thinking about getting a bird as a pet it was because i was "picked" by a little cinnamon green cheeked conure in a pet store. i named him Ike but due to timing and financial issues i couldn't take him until i returned from a holiday i had planned and the store wouldn't hold him for me.
Ike shared a cage with a very nippy and nasty little clutch mate and i would most definitely have taken Ike over the nippy one but fate intervened and when i returned from my holidays Ike was gone so rather than wait for an opportunity for another little bird (they are few and far between here) i decided to take home the other little conure who i thought hated me. all she ever did in the store when i went near the cage was nip me
but when i got her home thanks to some good advice from the board members here and perseverance within a fortnight we had seriously bonded, she LOVES me and i love her back, i honestly don't regret for a moment that i have pepper instead of Ike (though i worry for him from time to time) i honestly think that watching the change in her has been more rewarding than if it had been love at first sight, when i first got her she would just perch on my hand or shoulder but wouldn't let me scritch her anywhere but her head, if i touched her wings at all she bit hard but now as soon as i pick her up she practically lays back in my hand, she will let me tickle her under her wings and everything. she trusts me implicitly now and its been great. she steps up well, she can wave and shake hands she can talk though not very clearly and chooses to do so when she thinks no one is listening and she pretty much poop trained her self, if she's perched on me she doesn't like to poop on me so she gets a little fidgety and waits until i hold her over a paper towel.
so i guess what i'm saying in a very long winded way lol is that if you don't feel an instant connection its ok you can always build a bond.
phew i'm done go rest your eye's
