Well maybe they won't head butt or lick you, but birds can get really attached to their person.
You'd have to be spend a lot of time with it, every day.
My sister's cockatiel used to like to sit in my hair and clean it. He'd very gently choose a few strands and run his beak through it, like when they clean their feathers. I only spent a fair amount of time with him.
I did have a parakeet that let me carry him around in my hand. As in my hand cupped lightly around his body. He was perfectly healthy, just very docile. But he was the only one I ever had who let me do that.
A hand raised/fed bird would be your best option. It'd be more expensive, but it's also a more tame people oriented bird.
Oh believe me, she has seen me in some really horrible mindsets. I don't waste her or my time by pretending everything is la di da to make her happy or think I'm doing good.
LOL awwwwwwww!
T.F used to nuzzle his nose in my ear, but only for a few seconds and usually to wake me up to feed him. But he did it just to be sweet too. I think he did it because I would put my ear on his nose when he purred to hear the funny fluttery sound and feel the cold wet triangle as you put it so well!
That's sweet and funny as hell. ;^D
It's great that she not only came back, but stayed and kept doing it.
Maybe you should try to have therapy sessions with your cat, in-between sessions with your human therapist. I mean, they're fantastic listeners and they're free.
On a side note, I'm still a willing pilgrim to our local Bast Shrine, because it has a local representative of the Noble Species who rubs his face on my hand, sneaks behind me in-between my coat and back so he can claim it for his own as I take it off and he lies on it on the ground, climbs on my knees and puts his forepaws on my shoulder to look me squarely in the face an inch from it and whose ears he lets me scritch him behind. His human servant is always surprised by it because he says his cat is always mean to everyone else, and jokingly asks me "What are you doing to him? That's not my cat!"
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You'd have to be spend a lot of time with it, every day.
My sister's cockatiel used to like to sit in my hair and clean it. He'd very gently choose a few strands and run his beak through it, like when they clean their feathers. I only spent a fair amount of time with him.
I did have a parakeet that let me carry him around in my hand. As in my hand cupped lightly around his body. He was perfectly healthy, just very docile. But he was the only one I ever had who let me do that.
A hand raised/fed bird would be your best option. It'd be more expensive, but it's also a more tame people oriented bird.
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LOL awwwwwwww!
T.F used to nuzzle his nose in my ear, but only for a few seconds and usually to wake me up to feed him. But he did it just to be sweet too. I think he did it because I would put my ear on his nose when he purred to hear the funny fluttery sound and feel the cold wet triangle as you put it so well!
That's sweet and funny as hell. ;^D
It's great that she not only came back, but stayed and kept doing it.
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Maybe you should try to have therapy sessions with your cat, in-between sessions with your human therapist. I mean, they're fantastic listeners and they're free.
On a side note, I'm still a willing pilgrim to our local Bast Shrine, because it has a local representative of the Noble Species who rubs his face on my hand, sneaks behind me in-between my coat and back so he can claim it for his own as I take it off and he lies on it on the ground, climbs on my knees and puts his forepaws on my shoulder to look me squarely in the face an inch from it and whose ears he lets me scritch him behind. His human servant is always surprised by it because he says his cat is always mean to everyone else, and jokingly asks me "What are you doing to him? That's not my cat!"
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If anything petting cats lowers blood pressure and releases happy chemicals.
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