Welcome!
Rest in peace Kiwi (March 22, 2012)
Hello and welcome to the site all about budgies. Here you can find out everything that you need to know about training budgies, and the care that is required in owning budgies. The Budgie Whisperer was founded in 2009 by Tom Kalhagen. Tom had just adopted his first budgie and he decided set out on a goal. Too many budgies were being taken into homes and the people there didn't know how to care for them. So, Tom built a website to educate those who were adopting budgies whether it be your first budgie or your tenth. This website is jam-packed with information, if however, you do have a question that is not answered you can ask me on Facebook, fill out our contact forum, or email me at tom@budgiewhisperer.com.
To get started on your learning experience, click a page to the left!
To get started on your learning experience, click a page to the left!
The BPW Mission - 100% free, 100% of the time
"Our Mission here at the Budgie Whisperer is to provide free information for the well being of all budgies; to make sure that they are being cared for, behaving, and being loved." Tom Kalhagen-owner and founder
Our History
Back in 2009 I started volunteering at a local parrot sanctuary and my second day there a new budgie came in. I went to go take a look at him and he was a beautiful green and yellow budgie. I opened up his cage door to talk to him and as soon as I opened it he flew out. He sat on the floor in the third aisle of birds. The owner went to go get a net because he was fully flighted and so I just sat by him so we wouldn't lose track of him under one of the bigger cages. I decided that I might as well see if he would step up for me. I put my finger to his chest and he wouldn't budge. I was careful but yet determined so I slowly added more and more pressure and he stepped up. Just then the owner walked around the corner and said "wow, you must be the budgie whisperer!" (so this is how we got the name). I took the idea home and in 2009 our first website was formed using Google webs. It was plain and simple but it was free and that is what we went with. The website was mainly based toward the care of budgies and not so much the actual training for I was still so new at this. The organization was called "Budgie Parakeet Whisperer." I figured that people may not know the name "budgie" and if I threw "parakeet" in there we might be located easier. This website lasted until August 2010 where we then switched to www.webs.com. It was free and it was more professional looking. It was during this switch that I added information into the site about the actual training of budgies. This site switch was around the one year anniversary of the death of my first budgie that I had adopted back in 2009; so I made the anniversary of his death what is now known as "Budgie Day,” August 29th. This new website brought in about 12 people per day and there was not much interaction with my viewers. Now we had a Facebook page going and other options for the Budgie Parakeet Whisperer were starting to come about. I was very happy with what was going on but it was hard to take it all on by myself. I needed administrators to help me out. I put out requests on the Facebook page and I received three wonderful admins one of them (and myself) are located in the United States, and the other two are in the United Kingdom. It was these admins that helped me make all sorts of changes to the organization including the change of our name to the current "Budgie Whisperer." After we made this name change we once again looked for a new web hosting provider. We ran across www.weebly.com (our current web hoster). That switch was made right before Budgie Day in 2011. We now receive around 30 views per day on the new site and keep our fans happy and get them interacting with our Facebook page as well. But most important we are open to you to ask any questions you may have so we can keep you and your budgies happy!
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Budgie Whisperer-keeping your budgies happy and healthy since 2009!
