birdbrainzz4me
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i didn't know exactly were i should post this thread, so i decided to put it here. this is the picture of the black palm baby i helped raise when i worked for our former bird breeder. i know i told a few of the flock members that i would post a picture of him, granted they were older pictures and on the darker side. i had to take pictures of the pictures because i don't have a scanner, lol but any ways i thought i would tell our story.
so it was about 10 to 11 years ago, that my mom and i had decided that we were going to get ourselves an eclectus. she wanted a male and i wanted a female. we had found barb in a bird talk magazine and called her up to see if she had any babies available. at the time she didn't but we agree'd to be put on a waiting list, and she invited us to come visit the aviary so she could get to know us some more. barb would have visitations for all the people who already had birds from her or future bird parents like us to come and visit with the each other and our birds. we also went to every one of the visitations. to make a long story short, my moms ekkie hatched first and i was still second on the waiting list. andrew hatched around the same time tucker hatched so while my mom went to visit tucker, i watched andrew grow to be a big black palm cockatoo. then to my surprise barb had asked me if i would like to feed andrew, he was in the later stages of weaning , and she starts feeding them with spoons instead of syringes. so i was sooooo excited to help out. just because it was hand feeding. and now i had a buddy while my mom had tucker. time had passed and mine and andrews love for each other grew so strong for each other. barb had a horse shoe drive way that the bay window over looked. andrew's java tree stand sat in the window and he eventually learned what our van looked like. and just like clock work every time we came over i could see his buzzard butt, flutter to the floor to meet me at the door. we would walk in, and he would hitch a ride on my shoe to the sink so i could wash my hands before i held him. didn't make very much sense to me because the shoe's are gonna have more germs then my hands but there was no stopping andrew from being with me. barb wanted me to have andrew instead of a eclectus so bad because it was so obvious to mom, dad, and barb that he should be with me. the only down fall was that we could never in a million years be able to afford to get him. she even said she would sell him to me for half price and my mom still said no. i wish she would have said yes. eventually a woman from south carolina i believe sent barb a deposit on andrew. this was one of the saddest days i have ever had. so i got in as much time with andrew as i possibly could. our last day together was the the hardest day for me. i never wanted it to end. it was getting late and i had school the next day so i had to say goodbye for the last time. i gave andrew a big hug , crying my eyes out, told him that he was going to have another mommy, and she's going to be just as good to him. so he needs to be a good boy for me. he rested his big beak on my shoulder and pushed himself up to me as if he was giving me a hug back. i feel he knew , and understood how i felt and wanted me to be happy. so i gave him a kiss on his rosy red cheeks and took every thing i had to leave with out making the most depressing scene i think anybody could ever see. i still cry to this day even now writing this story because i still love him so much and i hope he has a good life and every thing he could ever dream of. some where out there i know andrew is, the woman renamed him casper, but he will always be andrew to me. i just hope he's doing fine... im sorry this is such a sad story but this is our story, love stories don't always have happy endings.
