Giggleagain
New member
Good morning everyone! I'm happy to have found this wonderful community and eager to learn everything I can about parrots! I'm a reasonably aged woman with 4 adult animal loving children (reassuring, isn't it? I have someone to will my pets to !).
I have always had dogs, cats, and birds, several of them were/are rescues.
I recently needed a new ladder for my parakeet Pepita and stopped at our local bird specialty store on my way home from work. To tell the whole story would fill a small book, so I'll just say that I arrived home with 3 ladders, a pound of pellets, $300 worth of toys, a too small cage with a parakeet girl that I named "Rocky", and a small cage with a plucked Quaker Parrot named "Clover". Free. (Well they now have a customer who went from buying parakeet seed and a $5 ladder, to a customer that spends over $100 every week - great tactical move).
As my world turns, I've never had to "look" to rescue. Rescuing just happens to me. While rescuing dogs seems to be a genetic trait in my family, I need help knowing what to do for Clover because things are dicey, but I'll write about these issues in separate posts.
I've already read everything available on line about Quaker Parrots, I've bought 2 Quaker specific books, and Clover has already been seen by an avian vet, now lives in a large cage, and is starting to grow new feathers.
YAY
! ... but not so fast... there is a problem and I don't know what it is. Please find me in the PROBLEM section (I hope there is one!) Update: I found the Quaker Parrot section... see you there!
I have always had dogs, cats, and birds, several of them were/are rescues.
I recently needed a new ladder for my parakeet Pepita and stopped at our local bird specialty store on my way home from work. To tell the whole story would fill a small book, so I'll just say that I arrived home with 3 ladders, a pound of pellets, $300 worth of toys, a too small cage with a parakeet girl that I named "Rocky", and a small cage with a plucked Quaker Parrot named "Clover". Free. (Well they now have a customer who went from buying parakeet seed and a $5 ladder, to a customer that spends over $100 every week - great tactical move).
As my world turns, I've never had to "look" to rescue. Rescuing just happens to me. While rescuing dogs seems to be a genetic trait in my family, I need help knowing what to do for Clover because things are dicey, but I'll write about these issues in separate posts.
I've already read everything available on line about Quaker Parrots, I've bought 2 Quaker specific books, and Clover has already been seen by an avian vet, now lives in a large cage, and is starting to grow new feathers.
YAY
! ... but not so fast... there is a problem and I don't know what it is. Please find me in the PROBLEM section (I hope there is one!) Update: I found the Quaker Parrot section... see you there!
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. Parrots are addicting
