Ditto, I couldnt agree more, this has been so very helpful!

Update : Since I've had my baby bird, all of 2 months, I started offering my other rescue (a 15 yo cockatiel) your homemade seed mix & pellets. He's not touched it. UNTIL an hour ago. All I did was add MORE millet (his favourite) and crushed your pellets finely. Now, I can't believe he's been eat- ing (& playing) non-stop!!! Your failures help, Jamie. If it weren't for this SLIGHT adjustment, I would have mucked up the conversion process, and/or stalled it. THANKS AGAIN! Now I better order more SFS to get him on that too! 💚

@@srrfounder1great to hear you kept going I feel like so many people just give up to early on everything’s possible though

@@joebean3615 Thank you, Joe. I agree. I think people expect quick results. That's NOT how it works. ANYTHING worth attaining comes with a lot of TIME and effort. 😊✌️

Could not agree with you more!

Compliantly agree although Jamie had a lot going on and wasn’t thinking the clearest (also not sure if many of you know but Jamie had Clyde 6 months ago

@@joebean3615 I get what you're saying because she has stated that several times but it's just not a good excuse.

@@joebean3615 yes, I completely understand that and knew about them having Clyde before. It was just an observation. Maybe someone will read it and keep it in mind if they're in a similar situation.

for real!!! i just adopted mine about 3 months ago and he’s a super quick learner but he was a little brat when i first got him lol steps up really well, recalls really well, but straight up refuses to eat a new diet

Ya tell me abt it...i got 6 of em

@@himakshibhattacharjee1568 Same! I have 6 cockatiels and a budgie. LOL

​@@d1sastcrpiece290Hey! Just wanted to ask if you have any advice for that? I know you said yours refuses but is there anything you have noticed works better or worse? I just got my own cockatiel a little while ago and noticed immediately she is way more stubborn about diet than my budgies ever were lol.

Bearded dragons are so cool! I would love to take care of one but am not used to keeping insects for feeding

@sivniq I vary mine and pick them up once a week. It's not hard. Pedro's favorite are crickets because he loves chasing them. I have a plastic critter keeper. I throw in some of the beardie's veggie salad & some calcium powder to gut load them to make them nutritious for him. He also likes super worms. I leave them in the plastic container they come in. Feed them a few leaves from the beardie's greens. Since Pedro is an adult he only gets 10-20% of his diet from insects so it's really not that much... though he would eat his fill if I let him. I dislike the dubia roaches a little because they crawl up my finger... but they are good nutrition so I include them in the rotation. Pedro likes it when I put him on the floor and throw a super worm somewhere in front or to the side of him so he can run after them... almost like a dog playing fetch except he eats them. You can get killed & canned insects too. Pedro will eat them with his greens. There's also dried mixes you can rehydrate. Pedro HATES that... but others do ok with it. Pedro will eat it a little if that's all there is.... but he gives me the evil eye. The most expensive part is the habitat. You can start small when babies but you'll quickly need a long 120 gal tank. And you must always provide UVB light along with calcium supplements or they get metabolic bone disease which is disfiguring and painful for them. They are worth it though. I've had green iguanas but the bearded dragons just have more personality. Leopard Geckos do too... but they aren't as good with handling. A beardie will sit on your shoulder for an hour while you type or watch tv... Geckos will keep climbing around.

Around 12:19 you’ll see Clyde lunging at blueberry Some birds don’t get along with other birds very well and yes some birds do love company but Clyde isn’t one

Add something he really likes in to the chop ( I would suggest pasta, sweet potato (yam) steamed, hard boiled egg or banana (though banana is quite high in sugar)) you could stick pellets into a piece of vegetable (most birds will like broccoli, carrot & capsicum but really you could do any) Try grinding up flaxseed (in a very well cleaned out coffee grinder, it’s ok if you don’t have one just don’t do this tip) birds like nuts and flaxseed has that nutty flavour to it (also it absorbs moisture from de-frosted chop) Pretend / or actually do to eat vegetables and make them seem really interesting (or if he’s a trouble maker try acting as if he can’t have the veggies than he’ll want them more) You could also put a tiny bit of chop and have mostly crumbled pellets Don’t give up nothing is impossible! I thought my Guinea pigs (if you don’t know naturally Guinea pigs are real scaredy-cats and they didn’t have much human interaction either) I thought they were never going to be friendly after about 3 months one of them has taken over a year too be friendly but he’s now the friendliest so amazing breakthrough you just gotta have patience

I would never do this with a cockatiel. They're very prone to night frights and could easily harm themselves flying around and crash landing somewhere unsafe in a panic

Both my cockatiels are cageless at night. There are occasional night fights, but both my birds start hovering once they launch themselves into the darkness lol. You turn on a light and they orient themselves and fly back to their perch

cuz that's the way he was clipped before he came to her

@mischr34 yea, but what's the purpose? Is it to stop him flying?

@@SonOfVulkan I guess it was supposed to but didn't work. it's a weird way to clip a bird too (tho I don't like any clipping)

@mischr34 Yes it's a horrible thing to do, I've never seen tail feathers clipped like that 🤔

@@SonOfVulkan no, it wouldn't stop flying at all. Heck, lovebirds/cockatoos/african greys have tiny tails and fly just fine. The reason is more likely that either his feathers were very soiled... either the owner mistakenly was trying to "help" the bird because they have to make extra-effort when turning and climbing to not get their tails "stuck". Cockatiels need time to learn how to move around with that long tail. Honestly it probably doesn't impair him much, albeit it's kind of ridiculous looking

For all the mentioning of how she's 'ignored her own rules', you haven't given any examples of those rules despite being 'so many things she's done that are contrary to pattern'. If you actually wanted to be helpful, to her and to anyone else reading your comment, give examples.

which rules do you mean? of the three cockatiels I've had one of them was a hard biter, so it can happen. the other two wouldn't even really bite, they'd just pretend to bite when they were mad

Please give us examples.

​@@DragonflameWolfpawI'll give you an example. Bringing a bird into a new environment and changing its diet multiple times within 5 (I think) days. Clearly rehoming a bird is incredibly stressful for the bird. As is leaving him with a friend for a few days and then taking it "home" and putting it in a less familiar room with a child. Capri may have been brought up around birds and be very confident but that was a disaster waiting to happen. Hopefully she shakes it off. Birds are intelligent but they are not rational human beings. We shouldn't expect them to behave as such. I'm disappointed because a lot of the things poor Clyde has been put through are mistakes that beginners make, not what I would have expected from an expert. I firmly believe she would have had more success working at a slower pace and not changing his diet multiple times.

In terms of helping her, I've already given examples in just about every video she's posted about this bird. As for you, if you've watched her videos you already know a lot of them, but I'll give you a couple, anyway. 1. She doesn't believe in leaving a bird in its carrying cage after it first arrives. She didn't follow that rule with Clyde. 2. She doesn't allow her birds to have their own cages, and moves them regularly. With Clyde, she has him sleeping in that same carrrying cage every night. 3. She doesn't pay attention to his mental state - we saw her more than once pick the bird up off the floor after he just flew into a wall, and immediaely try to train him. And then she was oblivious to why he didn't want to train. 4. Same as 3, she's always talking about paying attention to a bird's visual cues, but she seems to rarely do that with Clyde. 5. She's often talked about needing to be in the right head space (my words) when dealing with a bird, but she's ignored that with Clyde. Not only has her dislike of cockatiels often been almost palpable through the screen, but something about the bird has made her continually second guess herself and come across as uncertain and hesitant. 6. You can't make progress until you deal with diet/diet converion. That's the number two rule after monitoring weight. But even though she's voiced concern about Clyde's diet, she hasn't made it a priority. Even in this video, it was her friend who supposidly converted him to their own brand of seed mix while she was away (although Clyde is still clearly just picking out the millet). Frankly, I didn't know that cockatiels were exclusively seed (and grain) eaters. The ones I've had and seen have all eaten all sorts of other things, from veggies to sweet potato. My avian vets have always said that an exlusively seed diet is bad for them. I don't know how much of all this is the editing of the vids, but it's almost like she's been a different person with this bird. And yes, I'm aware that these events took place some time ago.

MisterTene in the wild 👀 Absolutely agree with you. And as she said in the final Clyde video she was missing a very big component which is felt throughout this series: love. So happy he found a loving home!

My tiel is a sweetheart. He'd change your mind :)