obsessed

[jynx]

My cockatiel (Casper) he is obsessed with me..He would sleep with me if he had it his way. My daughter told me they yesterday when I was taking a nap that Casper was right near my nose..almost liking breathing my air...He follows me around like a dog. Sometimes he sits on my chest very close right up close to my neck...I love him so much and I do not know what I would do if something ever happend to him..I am so attached to all of my birds but to him the most. Can anyone tell me if their bird is attached to you like mine is?

[april15]

Yep, mine was the same way. Always had to be near me. She would snuggle up so close to my face that I could feel her little breath on me. And yes, she followed me everywhere! Unfortunately, she died last year. I miss her terribly. I still haven't been able to bring myself to get another one yet. I'm afraid I'll be disappointed when a new bird isn't her. A tame and cuddly tiel is priceless.

[KDK241]

My Sophie is just like that. She thinks she is a human in a birds body and doesn't understand why she can't come with me everywhere. It is great but be careful, she can get very loud and annoying when she wants me and I can't take her out. It took me a long time to break her of screaming because she thought she should be out and she still does it sometimes.

[cockatielmommy]

My Cretchie is like that as well. If he hears me walking to the bathroom at night he perks up and calls out to me. he even can tell my footsteps from everyone else's in the house.

If I leave the room he will fly to me before I can even leave, and if he doesn't make it he will run, like there is no tomorrow,after me.

He even trys desperately to mate with my hand all the time, (of course I do not let him though). He looks around for a nesting site and desperately calls out to me when he finds someplace he likes. Like I would craw in a tiny cubbyhole just to mate and or lay eggs. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

Just like a male, "Living in a fantasy world all of his own".
Well I guess ya got ta dream sometimes.

He even taps the table in front of me and shows me a heart with his wings.

[Monica]

They say that when a bird is flighted they become more dependant... and not so needy... that's FAR from the truth with Charlie! Okay, so he's no cockatiel, but he'd rather sit on me than be in his cage! Only reason why he'd EVER want to be in his cage is if he's hungry/thirsty, or I'm in the cage.... cause if I'm in the cage, it's okay if he's there too... otherwise, he wants to be with me 24/7.

Casey is my handraised cockatiel, never received a natural feeding. When I slept in the bird room (before it was the bird room) and she and Noel were both living cage-free, Casey would come and wake me up in the morning. She never went under the covers so I didn't really worry. She'd just walk along the blanket, and search out for fingers.... why? To demand scritches! If the fingers didn't pet her, she'd peck them, and put her head down again! She wouldn't stop this until one, she got scritches, or two, the fingers went into hiding! She'd also loved to climb up the side of the pillow, or if she was on my body, climb up the side of my face, to the top of my head... so she could do circles on my head and mess my hair up even further! Let me tell you, little tiny sharp claws that are NOT trimmed are not a nice thing to be having on your face in the morning!

When Casey was clipped I use to walk around the neighborhood with her... if it got chilly or started getting late she'd snuggle up as close as she could to my ear until we got home. When I feed the birds, the majority of the time Casey will fly to me for scritches, or just to see what I'm feeding out! All the cockatiels here are cage-free, too, btw! Often times I must leave the room to get them fresh foods. She'll come along with me! Ohter times though I don't allow her out of the bird room due to the cats. Her coming out with me however is a new behavior.... she was in my own bedroom for about a month to allow her toe to heal... guess since then she's decided she likes to spend a bit more time with me! That or just to see around the house!

Sunshine, before adopted, actually demanded me to feed her seeds from my hand... she'd fly around me, but she didn't like landing anywhere on me other than my hand (although she did land on me elsewhere, twice... for no more than a split second! that was before I figured out what she wanted!) She was handraised, if not handfed. My rehome/adopted birds I also don't mind if they aren't tame, so long as they are happy and healthy... so if they have no interest in human interaction I leave them be... Well Sunshine decided otherwise! And now that Sunshine is gone, Faye (the newest tiel here) picked up on the habit right before Sunshine left, and is now starting to get confident enough to fly to me, yet not confident enough to land on me... so we meet in the middle... other than being her 4th home at least, I don't really know much about Faye's history other than she came from a very bad home (as most of the rehomed birds here have come from)...