My parakeet giving me anxiety

[chanellebourgeois]

My parakeet keeps making this sounds, kinda like he's whining, or pouting about something, and it's making me sad. I try to pet him, but he hates it when humans touch him. He bites us. His name is Charlie. Really.

[Kuma]

Sometimes a little bit of perspective can be helpful, when we are feeling unhappy about something. So I hope this is helpful: My mother, who is a wonderful person and otherwise in terrific health, was very recently diagnosed with metastatic cancer. She will now have to undergo a series of horrific treatments, and still a very uncertain future. She may well be dead within a year. So maybe having a pouty parrot is not really that bad? I'm just sayin...

[JohnC]

Hi Chanellebourgeois. Is this a new parakeet for you? Is he new to your home i mean? If so, maybe he needs time to adjust to it's new surroundings. Some birds just never seem to take to captivity or if they were abused they do not do so well. Let me know and try to relax.

[chanellebourgeois]

No he's actually been around for a while. He's really old. He usually makes barking/squaking sounds as if he were trying to bark.

[chanellebourgeois]

Well, I have this thing where I have a lot of affection for animals more than I do humans. In short, I like animals more than I like people.

[JohnC]

Yep, they are non judgmental and all they want to do is please. I had a black lab that went every place with me and she was with me for 16 years. Her legs got so bad that she could no longer hold herself up so for awhile i carried her outside and helped her back in but one day i decided she had suffered enough so I had to have someone get her and take her into the vet to be put to sleep. I cried more for her than any other human funeral i have ever been at. I wish i would of taken her in to the vet myself but i could not do it.
Sorry to ramble, Yes i can absolutely see what you mean about animals. Hopefully your little feathered friend will be ok.

[Ponder]

I really appreciated the comment about the pouty parrot. Wishing you lots of strength and as much peace as can be had in those moments that allow reprieve and possibly even those that are hard to take.

Hi chanellebourgeois - I'm the same with how much respect I give to one species compared to another. Such a shame that humankind of put themselves way above all others. I like what John says about the non judgmental attitudes. I'm often called needy in my attempts to please, however can't help it as I find it easier to just live and let live compared to fussing over this or that standard, meeting expectations and so on. Unfortunately the continual judgments made upon me have worn away the ease to please, so that now I tend to keeping my distance from people and instead, look towards nature and whatever I can find within. What I have found within, is so much more real than any I could ever hope to find outside myself - and it also comforts me if I allow it. Allowing it seems to be my journey.

Now I rant ... lol John ;)

Nice meeting you guys though. ;)

[chanellebourgeois]

Thanks guys. I guess that since my whole life I've gotten so used to hiding in the shadows from people, I no longer consider them what I used to. I guess since I've strayed away from them so much, I no longer have much interest in the human species. And it has a huge benefit. I've gotten closer to myself, and closer to God's earthly creations. I pay more attention to nature and to the wild organisms with beating hearts, and they have helped me come to, from being so knocked out by anxiety and bullying. It's pretty amazing. It's given me a chance to reinvent myself, and connect with the inner me besides trying to fit in with society and it's foolery. I meditate, I pay more attention to what's outside, and what really matters. I like people in my own way, but I just came to my own conclusion that I love God and his earth much much more.