Lis
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- Aug 20, 2013
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- Parrots
- "Larry Bird" Quaker, 12 years
"Mogul" CAG 17 years
"Duke" B&G Macaw 22 years
"Pepper" GW Macaw 6 years
Well I finally brought home my adopted 22year old B&G Macaw Duke yesterday. Oh my what a day it was....his previous owner offered to drive 4 hours (I drove 1 hour) to meet her while she was helping her son move back to collage. One intersection from our meeting spot, she was in a bad accident. Imagine trying to pick up your macaw in the middle of a busy intersection at the on/off ramp of the Hwy. Her truck was totaled, cop car lights , tow trucks. she had taken him out of his travel cage in her panic to check on him and was worried about the airbag dust and he was coughing, this is what I ended up pulling up to. When I called my husband to tell him what was going on all he could say is, he's going to have ptsd before you get him. lol, thx honey!! Well as awful as all that was, it's been going incredibly well, in fact so well I'm afraid I'm going to turn him into a bad macaw.
Like I know it's not good to allow them on your shoulder until they have earned your trust. Well I've already messed up step one. He's giving me a really good sense of security and warmth, that I don't think I should expect so soon. He easily steps up, even from inside his cage. He will sit on my forearm and snuggle up close in the crook of my neck and let me pet and hold the back of his head and neck. he seems to get so relaxed he feels like he's leaning back into my hand like he would lay on his back. however when we walk around the house, yard, neighborhood, he tends to want to get up on my shoulder. To be honest it's a easier place for me to have him too as he can hold on to my shirt better and feels like he might slip on my arm.
We went for a car ride today and got some ice cream and sat on a bench, he seemed to love it, yes the ice cream too. His previous owner said he loves it and so I did it. People would come up to take our picture, he would step up onto my hand and if i hold him up high and say show them your wings, he spreads them. If a truck would go by he would get in closer to me, like he knows I'm where he's safe. So Please be gentle with me, I know I've done it all wrong, but after yesterday, accident, his owner crying, all rational thoughts were out the window. And yes I didn't meet him before, we had Skype a couple of times only.
Like I know it's not good to allow them on your shoulder until they have earned your trust. Well I've already messed up step one. He's giving me a really good sense of security and warmth, that I don't think I should expect so soon. He easily steps up, even from inside his cage. He will sit on my forearm and snuggle up close in the crook of my neck and let me pet and hold the back of his head and neck. he seems to get so relaxed he feels like he's leaning back into my hand like he would lay on his back. however when we walk around the house, yard, neighborhood, he tends to want to get up on my shoulder. To be honest it's a easier place for me to have him too as he can hold on to my shirt better and feels like he might slip on my arm.
We went for a car ride today and got some ice cream and sat on a bench, he seemed to love it, yes the ice cream too. His previous owner said he loves it and so I did it. People would come up to take our picture, he would step up onto my hand and if i hold him up high and say show them your wings, he spreads them. If a truck would go by he would get in closer to me, like he knows I'm where he's safe. So Please be gentle with me, I know I've done it all wrong, but after yesterday, accident, his owner crying, all rational thoughts were out the window. And yes I didn't meet him before, we had Skype a couple of times only.
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