MonicaMc
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- Sep 12, 2012
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- Mitred Conure - Charlie 1994;
Cockatiel - Casey 2001;
Wild Caught ARN - Sylphie 2013
I haven’t formally introduced Jayde but I have mentioned her here and there on the forum. I guess it’s about time I do!!!!
Jayde is a young red throated conure. I think she’ll be 4 years old in January? For the first 2, going on 3 years of her life, she lived with a family. Now, I don’t know much about this family at all, just that she eventually made her way back to her breeder, where-in a person on another forum took Jayde in. She lived with her foster mom for about 6 months before I adopted her. In her foster home, Jayde was a very shy, insecure and afraid bird that could not be handled. She loved scritches, kisses and being talked to, but otherwise would not step up on a human being. Her original name was Petey, which her foster mother didn’t like and so changed it to Kiwi. I already had a Kiwi, and she died last year, so the name just wouldn’t do. I decided to name her Jayde, not for her colors, but because the name kind of grew on me. The name “Jayde” came to me from another species of conure, the jenday! And thanks to autocorrect, the word “jenday” comes out as “Jayden”. Not liking the two syllable name, I shortened it to Jayde!
I knew before I got her that she would need work to become the pet that we all know she can be! It didn’t bother me that she couldn’t be held, that she bit, that she demanded attention but was afraid of it at the same time. A challenge she would be, and one I didn’t mind taking!
So first sort of business…. Getting Jayde to me. At the time, Jayde was in Ohio and I live in Nevada. Driving there and back was out of the question. I wanted to avoid flying there to pick her up so I’d have more money to spend on supplies and food for Jayde. I was interested in doing a “birdy train”, however there were not enough volunteers for the trip, so again, out of the question. Temporarily looked into private animal transport companies, but decided against it. Her foster mom and I both wanted to avoid the plane trip if possible, but in the end we chose to go that route. After we finally decided on that and which airline could ship her, we had to decide on a day to ship her. It has to be below 85° at all airports at the time of her arrival at said airport for the airport to ship her on to the next place. Being practically the beginning of summer in May, it was hard choosing a date since most of the temperatures were high!
I made an order of supplies for when Jayde arrived, and her foster mom finally decided on a date to ship Jayde before the package for Jayde was to arrive. Jayde was taken to the airport and the airport said she couldn’t be shipped without a health certificate. (apparently, an Ohio rule – other birds were shipped in other states without the health certificate) Ok, fine, whatever. Jayde’s foster mom was able to get a health cert for her and chose another date to ship her, and this time went with a separate airline. We figured that Jayde would fly from Dayton, OH to Chicago, IL and then to Reno, NV, based on the flight information provided online. Jayde was taken to the airport early in the morning and made it on the plane without any issues. Being that it was during the week, I had to take a little amount of time off away from work to go and pick her up. I was at the airport at the scheduled time she was supposed to arrive. I was sitting at the baggage claim area waiting for the airport employees to bring her in. From the time it took to take her to the airport to the time I was to pick her up, the total trip was supposed to be around 12 hours.
Jayde never came. The airport employees had no idea what was going on. Both her foster mom and I were eagerly waiting for her to arrive, and she wasn’t there. We had heard *nothing* about any delays or issues in shipping her… and then 30 minutes or so after she was supposed to arrive, her foster mom got a call that Jayde was stuck in Dallas, TX. Her flight from Dayton was delayed, which caused her to miss her connecting flight in Dallas (we weren’t made aware that she would be going through Dallas!), and because Texas heats up fairly quickly, they wouldn’t ship her on any flights for the rest of the day. That day was supposed to be the last day for a week that it would be under 85° on my end…. I was freaking out! I called the airline, and they said that they wouldn’t ship her if her destination was above 85°. I’m definitely freaking out here because I’m now thinking that she’ll be stuck in Dallas for days and I don’t know anyone *IN* Dallas who could go and pick her up at the airport and care for her until she could be shipped!
Thankfully, the Dallas airport confirmed that they would be shipping her out next day, regardless of the temperature on my end! And sure enough, the next day, at the planned arrival time, I waited at the airport. It felt like it took forever, but finally heard her voice outside on the tarmac as they were wheeling her in! She was screaming her head off! And when she made it into the building, her screams were reverberating around the walls! While trying to leave said airport, I got a few funny questions, such as “That a dog?” and “Is that a monkey?”. Some people at least new she was a bird, and one even knew she was a conure!
Jayde is a young red throated conure. I think she’ll be 4 years old in January? For the first 2, going on 3 years of her life, she lived with a family. Now, I don’t know much about this family at all, just that she eventually made her way back to her breeder, where-in a person on another forum took Jayde in. She lived with her foster mom for about 6 months before I adopted her. In her foster home, Jayde was a very shy, insecure and afraid bird that could not be handled. She loved scritches, kisses and being talked to, but otherwise would not step up on a human being. Her original name was Petey, which her foster mother didn’t like and so changed it to Kiwi. I already had a Kiwi, and she died last year, so the name just wouldn’t do. I decided to name her Jayde, not for her colors, but because the name kind of grew on me. The name “Jayde” came to me from another species of conure, the jenday! And thanks to autocorrect, the word “jenday” comes out as “Jayden”. Not liking the two syllable name, I shortened it to Jayde!
I knew before I got her that she would need work to become the pet that we all know she can be! It didn’t bother me that she couldn’t be held, that she bit, that she demanded attention but was afraid of it at the same time. A challenge she would be, and one I didn’t mind taking!
So first sort of business…. Getting Jayde to me. At the time, Jayde was in Ohio and I live in Nevada. Driving there and back was out of the question. I wanted to avoid flying there to pick her up so I’d have more money to spend on supplies and food for Jayde. I was interested in doing a “birdy train”, however there were not enough volunteers for the trip, so again, out of the question. Temporarily looked into private animal transport companies, but decided against it. Her foster mom and I both wanted to avoid the plane trip if possible, but in the end we chose to go that route. After we finally decided on that and which airline could ship her, we had to decide on a day to ship her. It has to be below 85° at all airports at the time of her arrival at said airport for the airport to ship her on to the next place. Being practically the beginning of summer in May, it was hard choosing a date since most of the temperatures were high!
I made an order of supplies for when Jayde arrived, and her foster mom finally decided on a date to ship Jayde before the package for Jayde was to arrive. Jayde was taken to the airport and the airport said she couldn’t be shipped without a health certificate. (apparently, an Ohio rule – other birds were shipped in other states without the health certificate) Ok, fine, whatever. Jayde’s foster mom was able to get a health cert for her and chose another date to ship her, and this time went with a separate airline. We figured that Jayde would fly from Dayton, OH to Chicago, IL and then to Reno, NV, based on the flight information provided online. Jayde was taken to the airport early in the morning and made it on the plane without any issues. Being that it was during the week, I had to take a little amount of time off away from work to go and pick her up. I was at the airport at the scheduled time she was supposed to arrive. I was sitting at the baggage claim area waiting for the airport employees to bring her in. From the time it took to take her to the airport to the time I was to pick her up, the total trip was supposed to be around 12 hours.
Jayde never came. The airport employees had no idea what was going on. Both her foster mom and I were eagerly waiting for her to arrive, and she wasn’t there. We had heard *nothing* about any delays or issues in shipping her… and then 30 minutes or so after she was supposed to arrive, her foster mom got a call that Jayde was stuck in Dallas, TX. Her flight from Dayton was delayed, which caused her to miss her connecting flight in Dallas (we weren’t made aware that she would be going through Dallas!), and because Texas heats up fairly quickly, they wouldn’t ship her on any flights for the rest of the day. That day was supposed to be the last day for a week that it would be under 85° on my end…. I was freaking out! I called the airline, and they said that they wouldn’t ship her if her destination was above 85°. I’m definitely freaking out here because I’m now thinking that she’ll be stuck in Dallas for days and I don’t know anyone *IN* Dallas who could go and pick her up at the airport and care for her until she could be shipped!
Thankfully, the Dallas airport confirmed that they would be shipping her out next day, regardless of the temperature on my end! And sure enough, the next day, at the planned arrival time, I waited at the airport. It felt like it took forever, but finally heard her voice outside on the tarmac as they were wheeling her in! She was screaming her head off! And when she made it into the building, her screams were reverberating around the walls! While trying to leave said airport, I got a few funny questions, such as “That a dog?” and “Is that a monkey?”. Some people at least new she was a bird, and one even knew she was a conure!
So… one of the first images I have of her!
