Help! We got our first budgie (together, I had one that spent its entire life biting me when I was a teenager) on October 20th. She was a pet store bird but for a pet store bird she was very docile. We let her settle in before beginning to try to interact with her and did everything by the book...

We took in my budgie Charlie almost a year ago. He's about one or two years old and the home we adopted him from was very bad. The owner had two young children who just wanted some pets for fun so they bought two budgies, a boy and a girl. One day the owner came home and found that the dog had...