merlin
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we were lucky enough to get an opportunity to add a beautiful congo to our one congo family. merlin is 37 now and is my mate. he tolerates tim, mostly. sophie is a 15 year old. she has been with her family since she was weaned. a child developed severe allergies which caused sophie to live at her mom's office while they tried everything possible to keep their girl. a year has passed and a difficult decision was made to make sophie part of a family again. i had been to visit her several times. when tim and i went to bring her home, she jumped right onto him and started rubbing her head on him. she is so in love it is funny! we had her exactly 14 hrs and she said merlin. 2 days later she calls our dog by name. we kept their cages in seperate rooms for the first few days but they talked to each other the entire time and i felt bad keeping them apart. their cages are in the same room now. they are only in there while we are both at work. i have their stand alone perches in the living room. we have been moving them closer a little every day. they are about 4ft apart now. this is going fantastic seeing we have no idea what we are doing... tomorrow will be a week we have been a family. i know there is no way to keep them from bonding if that is what they want. i have their cages across the room from each other. she is as loving to tim as merlin is to me. i am hoping that is a good sign they aren't falling for each other. does anyone have suggestions or signs to look for that they might be bonding? even though i have had merlin so long, i don't know anything about them other than his life. i'm pretty sure he isn't really a bird. i think he's a real person in a bird body. i know the big signs to look for that he isn't happy, feather plucking, not eating, sreaming and biting. it has only been a week but they both seem to be happy. they talk to each other, mimic sounds, and both are eating like little pigs. we have our fingers crossed......
