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Okay, everyone!
Ricco is HOME! I'm pretty sure I'm keeping his name. He loves to say it too much to change it!
We left this morning around 5:45AM. Whew, that was fun. I was supposed to drive there, but I forgot to take my Prozac yesterday (LOL) so I couldn't. So my SO got to drive the whole way! Lucky her! We had some car trouble (of course) and didn't get there til about 9, instead of 8:30 as planned.
When we got there, we went back and I said Hi to him, etc. I had the carrier all ready to go, but his previous owner wasn't quite ready to part with him. They took at least half an hour to say goodbye. I felt bad because you could tell they really didn't want to give him up, but she kept saying "I don't want to give him up, but I know he'll be so much happier with you guys."
After all that, and getting the paperwork out of the way, we finally got the cage loaded in the car and they said their final goodbyes. He went right into the carrier, no protesting at all. Just kept dancing and saying "Ricco!" We loaded him into the car and strapped him in and off we went to the vet.
When we finally got to the vet (we were late, but they were so nice about it), we filled out paperwork and waited. Finally, we got called back and he came right out of the carrier for me. He stepped up after a bit of protesting and, although I tried to keep him off, he got right up to my shoulder. Sigh. LOL. I finally got him down and made him stay on my hand. I got him on the perch to be weighed and... ONLY 205grams?! He's so small! I thought for sure he was underweight, but when the vet came in and felt his keel bone she said he was OVERweight!!! So I guess he's just a tiny too?!
Anyway, she decided to do blood tests in a few weeks because he was stressed out. She did a beak and nail trim and he screeeeeamed bloody murder! But I was shocked by his scream... Not because it was loud but because it was so QUIET! I guess I was expecting his scream to be like my friend's U2's scream...? Idk, but his scream is nothing. LOL. She did do a gram stain because his poop was weird and pink colored? She said he has some yeast and fungus (I think about the fungus part) from being on seed and gave me some Baytril and another one that starts with an F... Can't remember. She also gave me some pain meds because he kept looking at his foot all weird like. So, she thought it might hurt or something. She said if he acts like he needs them to give them to him, but otherwise he should be alright.
After we got done at the vet, (which was way cheaper than I thought it would be!), we went out to the car and got strapped in again and off to home we went! The whole way home he entertained us by singing, dancing, and talking in his carrier! He's SUCH a great little trooper! He did scare us a couple times by screeching, but it was just because it was so unexpected LOL.
The ride all went very smoothly, in fact the whole day did. We got home around 3:30PM and got his cage set up. I opened the carrier door and he stepped right up and went right into his cage for me. I went in there to check on him a bit ago and he made a little noise, put his crest up, and pushed his head against the bars so I could give him scritches.
He's so perfect. I love him already!
I will post pics later!
!!! you will have a wonderful friendship for a very long time 
