Gus the Parakeet

Welcome. There's lots of budgie folk here. I am owned by a CAG. But I love reading and seeing pics of the budgie types, habits etc.
 
FrontierBarbie said:
Hi, I'm FrontierBarbie aka Barbara Held. I live in Maine and am looking forward to interacting with Budgie and Parrot people about my parkakeet Gus.
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I live in Maine, too, in Windham. I've got 19 budgies- 7 English and 12 American. I kinda live and breathe budgies, so welcome!
Post pics of Gus!
 
DonnaBudgie said:
I live in Maine, too, in Windham. I've got 19 budgies- 7 English and 12 American. I kinda live and breathe budgies, so welcome!
Post pics of Gus!
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DonnaBudgie said:
I live in Maine, too, in Windham. I've got 19 budgies- 7 English and 12 American. I kinda live and breathe budgies, so welcome!
Post pics of Gus!
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DonnaBudgie said:
I live in Maine, too, in Windham. I've got 19 budgies- 7 English and 12 American. I kinda live and breathe budgies, so welcome!
Post pics of Gus!
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Hi, DonnaBudgie! Wow--you are a dedicated budgie person! I live in Brunswick and am a retired professor of psychology at Bowdoin College. Our beloved Gus died years ago but we still quote him everyday, as he taught us what to say and how to live. If you saw our Rob Caldwell interview about Gus on WCSH6 "207" TV show a month ago you know our story. I'll be posting some Gus photos soon!
 
Can I get the book on Amazon?
I have an English Budgie breeder friend in Massachusetts that breeds budgies for exhibition so they're spectacular looking large budgies. He sells his excess babies to a Psychologist in Boston who gives them to her patients as therapy birds to bring them out of their shell and talk. The birds are so empathetic and make wonderful companions for people with mental health problems and for people who are disabled and housebound.

You really should get another budgie. I could give you the breeder's contact information (through a forum moderator) and my contact information, too. If you travel and need a bird sitter I would be happy to take care of your bird for you.
 
DonnaBudgie said:
Can I get the book on Amazon?
I have an English Budgie breeder friend in Massachusetts that breeds budgies for exhibition so they're spectacular looking large budgies. He sells his excess babies to a Psychologist in Boston who gives them to her patients as therapy birds to bring them out of their shell and talk. The birds are so empathetic and make wonderful companions for people with mental health problems and for people who are disabled and housebound.

You really should get another budgie. I could give you the breeder's contact information (through a forum moderator) and my contact information, too. If you travel and need a bird sitter I would be happy to take care of your bird for you.
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What a great thing for him to do with his excess!
 
DonnaBudgie said:
Yes, I did see it! Why don't you have any budgies now? You need a budgie, badly.
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After Gus died I started traveling a lot to conferences worldwide to present scholarly papers. It seemed unfair to get a bird and be away so much. Then after I retired from teaching I started going back to NYC (my home town) every few weeks, so same problem of being away.
 
Inger said:
What a great thing for him to do with his excess!
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FrontierBarbie said:
After Gus died I started traveling a lot to conferences worldwide to present scholarly papers. It seemed unfair to get a bird and be away so much. Then after I retired from teaching I started going back to NYC (my home town) every few weeks, so same problem of being away.
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DonnaBudgie said:
Can I get the book on Amazon?
I have an English Budgie breeder friend in Massachusetts that breeds budgies for exhibition so they're spectacular looking large budgies. He sells his excess babies to a Psychologist in Boston who gives them to her patients as therapy birds to bring them out of their shell and talk. The birds are so empathetic and make wonderful companions for people with mental health problems and for people who are disabled and housebound.

You really should get another budgie. I could give you the breeder's contact information (through a forum moderator) and my contact information, too. If you travel and need a bird sitter I would be happy to take care of your bird for you.
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Yep, it's on Amazon. My husband David is also a psychologist who practiced therapy in Brunswick for over 30 years. He told his patients Gus stories to help them, with much success! He doesn't practice anymore. Thanks for offering to bird sit when we travel! Will think about getting another bird.
 
That's the problem for a lot of people, myself included. Fortunately I have a bird sitter who comes to my house when we're away, which has been quite a bit this past six months due to 2 deaths in the immediate family. She comes in the morning, feeds them and lets them out of their cages making sure the doors to bedroom and bathroom are closed and certain areas of the room are bird proofed the best we can. She comes back 9 hours later and puts them all back in their cages (which requires effort) and services their food and water. All for $50 a day. I have one budgie that we take with us on road trips to NJ because we hand raised her since she hatched in October and she has her own cage and still can't fly well enough to be put all day with the rest of the flock. We may even take her on the plane when we fly to Vegas for the Eagles concert next month because I can't bear to leave her for six days.
How can you bear not having a budgie since Gus died? There would be such a hole in my life if I didn't have any budgies.
 
I love hearing stories about pets (including those w/o feathers). They aid people in taking that first step and motivate them to take another. My daughter is retired army. In her younger and invincible stage she volunteered to go places where shooting by citizens and enemy were equallypossible. I had a parrot, and dogs. So I looked into animal therapy for vets. It was the just in case scenario. I never really stopped looking. I am most impressed by Parrots for Patriots. The vets need to meet qualifications. The parrots are rescues. I know support and therapy animals help the mind, emotions for a lot of individuals. Even their overly indulgent owners benefit.
 
DonnaBudgie said:
That's the problem for a lot of people, myself included. Fortunately I have a bird sitter who comes to my house when we're away, which has been quite a bit this past six months due to 2 deaths in the immediate family. She comes in the morning, feeds them and lets them out of their cages making sure the doors to bedroom and bathroom are closed and certain areas of the room are bird proofed the best we can. She comes back 9 hours later and puts them all back in their cages (which requires effort) and services their food and water. All for $50 a day. I have one budgie that we take with us on road trips to NJ because we hand raised her since she hatched in October and she has her own cage and still can't fly well enough to be put all day with the rest of the flock. We may even take her on the plane when we fly to Vegas for the Eagles concert next month because I can't bear to leave her for six days.
How can you bear not having a budgie since Gus died? There would be such a hole in my life if I didn't have any budgies.
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Condolences on the two recent deaths in the family. That's tough. Your bird sitter sounds amazing. The problem with getting another bird, besides travel, is that Gus was a unique member of the family who can't be replaced. Yes, there's a hole in our lives, but we bear it as we have borne the loss of other beloved persons.
 
I had a much lover budgie about 40 years ago, Buddy, who I adored. He was such a sweetheart and I taught him to say Who's your buddy, Birds can't talk, and various mixes of the two phrases. He had a metabolic problem that caused his beak to overgrow and I had to have it trimmed every few months. One day when he was about 5 years old I had the bird store where I got him do the trim and he died in the guys hand. I completely fell apart. Screaming You killed my bird! The store emptied out quickly. They offered me another budgie but I refused and I left with his empty cage and a heavy heart. It took me three years to go back and select another Buddy. New Buddy wasn't the same but he was a delightful budgie in his own was and lived to a ripe old age of 13 before succumbing to kidney failure.
A new budgie did not replace Buddy but I loved having a budgie too much to live without one. A new budgie won't replace Gus, but you enjoyed Gus, and you would enjoy a new budgie. My life wouldn't be the same without budgies. It would be so quiet and boring. We cry every time one of our budgies passes away, but we will always have budgies. They're so worth the mess and inconvenience.
 
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