Before buying a budgie think about the following questions:

One or two budgies?

Budgies in natural conditions live in flights and it will be boring for one budgie to live in a cage. His friend, who can replace the company of the other bird, could be a person, but only in the case that he spends lots of time with his feathery friend, speaks to it and lets it fly. If the bird is alone most of the time it becomes sad and very often gets sick. If you are unable to spare enough time for the budgie or if the family is absent for a long time, it is better to start breeding a couple of birds. Many people think that when living in a couple budgies do not become domestic because they do not need a human presence anymore. But if you are patient enough and if you have enough time you may breed budgies separately while they grow up until they become domestic and start perching on your arm and only then bring them together into one cage.

Will anybody help you?

It can happen that on some days you will be very busy and unable to care about the birds, it is very important some member of the family take care of them.

Will it be possible for the bird to move around your home?

Home budgies do not need to look for food alone and to fly kilometers away but they also have to “exercise” their wings. These feathery ones will not be vital and healthy if they do not fly daily around the room at least for an hour. But it is very difficult to keep the cage in one room with a cat – it instinctively chases birds and there could be trouble catching the flying budgie. But an obedient dog very soon realizes that the bird is a member of the family and that it must not be disturbed.