Post by polly420 on Sept 11, 2011 21:52:52 GMT -5
I am in a situation where I need to move with my youngest daughter to an apartment this year to chaperone her in a nearby city, while she attends school. While I can return to our regular home, where our pets reside, every week for a day or every two weeks, on average, I am concerned about leaving them this way for the whole year, only visiting so infrequently. I am considering having our cats visit our apartment one at a time for two weeks at a time and am really considering taking our tiel with us for the whole time we are there (New York) and moving her in with us. She would be traveling by car about two hours to get there. She hasn't been out of her cage and transferred to a small cage for travel in over a year. She is 8-9 years old. She doesn't spend time outside her large cage, normally, at home, as we have pets. I was wondering if anyone had experienced re-locating with a cockatiel of this age and wondering if it would be too stressful for her. She would have a lot more attention during the day, living with us. If she stays at our regular home, she will have some attention morning and night and possibly when my husband comes home during the day from work to eat some lunch, which would only be a few times a week. I am feeling sorry to have to see any of our pets I normally care for so infrequently for the next year and want to consider bringing at least one of them, such as our tiel, along with us to stay for the year, to keep her from feeling bored or lonely, or feeling abandoned by her main care-giver.
