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Question: ONLY BUDGIE EXPERTS PLZ. (NO OFFENSE)?

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Answer #1:

Get another budgie, by all means! The bird you have now will get lonely, yes. I have bred budgies for many years. They are tiny parrots, and live in huge flocks. They are "wired" to be with other budgies. Your bird will be happier with a new companion.

Answer #2:

yes, birds sometimes die of being lonesome/:

Answer #3:

if i were you i would get a new budgie because sometimes if a budgie gets lonely it will pull out its feathers and trust me you don't want that to happen.

ps:I am an expert on most hook billed parrots

Answer #4:

What is far more important than whether you are getting another bird or not, is , are you going to protect them from the cat? Your situation is proof of what we keep telling people. Cats have a bacteria in their saliva that is deadly to birds. If it only gets on the feathers, it takes longer as they have to ingest it when they preen. If it gets into an open wound, as apparently happened with your bird, death can be from a few minutes to a few hours. How very unfortunate for your bird that you had to learn that the hard way. As for adding another, if you spend enough time with the remaining bird, it will not suffer, other than temporarily, from the loss of the other one. What you do need to know is that you cannot go out and get a new bird, bring it home and plop it in the other birds cage. You must first quarantine it for no less than 30 days, as far from your present bird as possible. Then you start a gradual introduction by having the cages side by side. They will decide if, and when, they will accept each other. After they have spent some time out of their cages on neutral territory, if you then see them starting to share a cage, by their choice, you can probably move them in together. They can be possessive of their own cage. That may be especially true with a bird who has previously shared with another, then a stranger shows up. Before you decide though, make up your mind if you are going to protect them from the cat.

Answer #5:

i agree, before you get a new one, decide how you will protect them. a string is certainly not strong enough to hold a cage to the ceiling (she was probably also hurt and stunned in the original fall which could have led to het being attacked easier by your cat. i read your other question where you explained what happened). you should make sure the hook in the ceiling is anchored well into a beam. have a strong chain that holds the cage, and make sure the cage is strong enough to hang like that. many of them are not made to hang. if not, be prepared to have this happen again :( and definitely follow the quarantine, you wouldn't want to get your bird sick from the new bird. good luck. i reccommend lookin up parakeet care in general, read up from many sites and getting a good broad knowledge of them. all are different, so arm yourself with information and put it to use :)

Answer #6:

yes definetly get another one alot of budgies die cuz there lonely hurry get one as fast as you can...

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