Rosella Parrot- Pet store

[Kitty]

Here's a picture another picture of him. It's not a great photo but you can see all his yellow feathers.

I've occasionally seen pairs of the smaller species of Rosella for sale here in the UK but I've never seen a Crimson! I feel really lucky.

 

[MangieSun]

Wow. Gorgeous gorgeous bird!

 

[Betrisher]

Kitty, now I'm having doubts about him. Crimsons don't have any yellow feathers! In the first pic, all I could see was red and blue. The second pic looks lots more like an Eastern Rosella, but not entirely. Now I'm gonna have to check and check again in my bird books. I wonder if he might be a hybrid? Was there any info about who bred him? Of course none of it matters as he's just a gorgeous fellow and will become more so as he settles into his new life. But we'd all love to know what kind of Rosella he is! Off I go to do some ferretting around...

PS. Have you decided on his name yet? I was thinking 'Patricio' is a nice masculine name for a noble Australian bird...

Back again! I found this page:

http://www.animalphotos.me/bird6/bird6-rocr.htm

I think this page was mentioned when we were discussing hybrid Rosellas last year. Anyway, I'd plump for the notion he's a Crimson/Adelaide Rosella hybrid. That would make him a Crimdelaide or an Adelimson. Or not... Either way, he's still gorgeous and is clearly making you happy already. Perfect!

 

[Jayyj]

There's a place local to me in Manchester that sells several species and numerous mutations of rosella. This is their online shop: ROSSELLAS

gorgeous looking bird, anyway... my local shop that carries large parrot species picks up a lot of birds through classified ads and sometimes the older ones stay there a while. Alice was there well over six months and I felt like she wasn't doing well there by the end, so I was very glad to be able to provide a home for her. They care for their birds well enough, it's just small cages and lack of one on one attention can't be good for them. Good to hear that this story has ended well!

 

[Kitty]

Thanks for the links guys!

I think we may have decided on a name...*Drumroll*...His name is Cecil! We're going to trial his new name for a few days to see if it sticks

 

[mtdoramike]

What a gorgeous bird.

 

[DanR]

Wow what a gorgeous bird, the colors are beautiful. Your story reminds me of a large pet store in one of th emajor shopping malls near my place. I noticed they have several birds (An Amazon, CAG and an Eclectus) that have been there for at least a year, probably much more. The smaller parrots seem to sell on a regular basis (this is where I buy my dog food, so I always do a walkabout of the store every month) but these guys never budge. So a month or two ago when I started researching Caiques I asked them about the 3 and turns out they all have some major behavioral issues that are turning off buyers. The Amazon is scared of anything that moves and no one can go near him, the Eclectus screams contantly and it only gets WORSE when someone comes close to him, and the CAG is a plucker and a biter. I really felt bad and would love to take one of these guys but I just don't have the experience, my WBC will be my first fid. I hate seeing these guys stuck in their small aquarium style displays

They also have a Toucan, but he's not for sale... he's in the front window of the store, has a massive area to play in with an "Aztec" decor to it, but not enough toys imo. All I ever seen him doing is preening or sleeping... looks bored most of the time.

 

[Kiwibird]

Wow what a gorgeous bird, the colors are beautiful. Your story reminds me of a large pet store in one of th emajor shopping malls near my place. I noticed they have several birds (An Amazon, CAG and an Eclectus) that have been there for at least a year, probably much more. The smaller parrots seem to sell on a regular basis (this is where I buy my dog food, so I always do a walkabout of the store every month) but these guys never budge. So a month or two ago when I started researching Caiques I asked them about the 3 and turns out they all have some major behavioral issues that are turning off buyers. The Amazon is scared of anything that moves and no one can go near him, the Eclectus screams contantly and it only gets WORSE when someone comes close to him, and the CAG is a plucker and a biter. I really felt bad and would love to take one of these guys but I just don't have the experience, my WBC will be my first fid. I hate seeing these guys stuck in their small aquarium style displays

They also have a Toucan, but he's not for sale... he's in the front window of the store, has a massive area to play in with an "Aztec" decor to it, but not enough toys imo. All I ever seen him doing is preening or sleeping... looks bored most of the time.

O those poor poor babies. I haven't seen a pet store in a mall in a long time (I thought they banned them or something), but those mall stores are the WORST. Even regular pet shops have better standards of care and can more easily monitor customer interactions with their animals. It's a wonder they can sell any animals that don't come with severe behavioral problems given the conditions they put them under (especially mentally delicate ones like parrots). I thought the mall stores got enough complaints they shut them down or just didn't have customers. Maybe it was the area, but I haven't seen one since I was a kid.

My parents briefly had a 4th bird at one point, one of the smaller macaws. They went to the mall and saw the poor thing outside the petshop "to draw people in", scared half to death because he was getting his tail feathers yanked on by a group of teenagers. They bought him on the spot. I guess he was pretty screwed up in the head from the time he spent at the pet store. They eventually donated him to a zoo breeding program that had a girlfriend for him and he apparently went on to make quite a few babies with her.

 

[Kiwibird]

Thanks for the links guys!

I think we may have decided on a name...*Drumroll*...His name is Cecil! We're going to trial his new name for a few days to see if it sticks

I think Cecil is a very handsome name for a very handsome bird!

 

[DanR]

Wow what a gorgeous bird, the colors are beautiful. Your story reminds me of a large pet store in one of th emajor shopping malls near my place. I noticed they have several birds (An Amazon, CAG and an Eclectus) that have been there for at least a year, probably much more. The smaller parrots seem to sell on a regular basis (this is where I buy my dog food, so I always do a walkabout of the store every month) but these guys never budge. So a month or two ago when I started researching Caiques I asked them about the 3 and turns out they all have some major behavioral issues that are turning off buyers. The Amazon is scared of anything that moves and no one can go near him, the Eclectus screams contantly and it only gets WORSE when someone comes close to him, and the CAG is a plucker and a biter. I really felt bad and would love to take one of these guys but I just don't have the experience, my WBC will be my first fid. I hate seeing these guys stuck in their small aquarium style displays

They also have a Toucan, but he's not for sale... he's in the front window of the store, has a massive area to play in with an "Aztec" decor to it, but not enough toys imo. All I ever seen him doing is preening or sleeping... looks bored most of the time.

O those poor poor babies. I haven't seen a pet store in a mall in a long time (I thought they banned them or something), but those mall stores are the WORST. Even regular pet shops have better standards of care and can more easily monitor customer interactions with their animals. It's a wonder they can sell any animals that don't come with severe behavioral problems given the conditions they put them under (especially mentally delicate ones like parrots). I thought the mall stores got enough complaints they shut them down or just didn't have customers. Maybe it was the area, but I haven't seen one since I was a kid.

My parents briefly had a 4th bird at one point, one of the smaller macaws. They went to the mall and saw the poor thing outside the petshop "to draw people in", scared half to death because he was getting his tail feathers yanked on by a group of teenagers. They bought him on the spot. I guess he was pretty screwed up in the head from the time he spent at the pet store. They eventually donated him to a zoo breeding program that had a girlfriend for him and he apparently went on to make quite a few babies with her.

Here in Montreal they have a chain of huge stores called Safari Pet Centres Centre d'animaux Safari and they are really large format stores, not a small creepy shop like I used to see as a kid. They have people dedicated to each section of the store and each store is themed like an amazon jungle with a plane crashed in it or whatnot... check out the site and you'll see what I mean. These are the only pet stores you will see in the large major malls here, with a few independant stand-alone pet stores around the city. Unfortunately the independant shop I like where I buy most of my supplies and where my rat and Chin came from don't carry the dog food and the Safari store is the closest location to my house that does.

My Caique is coming from a highly recommended local breeder and he will be my first bird. If I had more experience with birds, I would have went rescue for sure, but I just wouldn't know what to do. I have plenty of experience with dogs however and have provided a forever home to 2 older dogs in the past that I rescued from a local shelter that were to be destroyed. Both were GSDs - one with a severe food aggression issue and the other was just anti-humans and wanted nothing to do with people. It took 4 months for me to be able to put my hand directly in Lars's food dish while he ate around it as though I wasn't even there and it took Shep 1 month of regular visits to the arrivals floor of Montreal's international airport to realize 99.9% of humans don't beat dogs and then he became a complete ham

I have a lot of respect for people that work with rescues... I can definitely see myself working with rescued birds at some point later down the road.

 

[Kiwibird]

Here in Montreal they have a chain of huge stores called Safari Pet Centres Centre d'animaux Safari and they are really large format stores, not a small creepy shop like I used to see as a kid. They have people dedicated to each section of the store and each store is themed like an amazon jungle with a plane crashed in it or whatnot... check out the site and you'll see what I mean. These are the only pet stores you will see in the large major malls here, with a few independant stand-alone pet stores around the city. Unfortunately the independant shop I like where I buy most of my supplies and where my rat and Chin came from don't carry the dog food and the Safari store is the closest location to my house that does.

My Caique is coming from a highly recommended local breeder and he will be my first bird. If I had more experience with birds, I would have went rescue for sure, but I just wouldn't know what to do. I have plenty of experience with dogs however and have provided a forever home to 2 older dogs in the past that I rescued from a local shelter that were to be destroyed. Both were GSDs - one with a severe food aggression issue and the other was just anti-humans and wanted nothing to do with people. It took 4 months for me to be able to put my hand directly in Lars's food dish while he ate around it as though I wasn't even there and it took Shep 1 month of regular visits to the arrivals floor of Montreal's international airport to realize 99.9% of humans don't beat dogs and then he became a complete ham

I have a lot of respect for people that work with rescues... I can definitely see myself working with rescued birds at some point later down the road.

I think your stores sound a bit like petco and petsmart here (and usually those are pretty clean and live animals seem to be getting reasonably good care). I just remember the ones in the big indoor malls that were maybe 800 sq ft of hell on earth for whatever sad creature happened to be unfortunate enough to end up there. You'd walk in and there would be miserable looking kittens and puppies from mills in oversized aquariums lining the entrance. Small birds were in open-acrylic tubs, big ones up on stands with ratty tails and reptiles/fish were in small dirty enclosures. And then there were a million feral children everywhere smacking the glass, pulling faces at the animals, screaming, grabbing anything they could and generally traumatizing the animals (I was NEVER EVER allowed to behave that way anywhere, and especially not around animals). Even as a kid, I knew that environment was wrong for living beings to be in I don't remember the names of the stores (it was a big chain) and they were in pretty much every mall, and then seemingly overnight, they were all closed up.

And theres nothing wrong with getting a baby from a good breeder. It really is best for a bird to spend its whole life in one loving home (and it sounds like you've done the right research, so your new guy is going to have a happy life ahead ). Rescues are a sad result of impulse and lack of respect for the animal, and do require a level of hands-on knowledge/experience you typically only get after learning all the ins and outs of parrots with young birds. No need to rush into rescues, just focus on your new baby

 

[Betrisher]

I knew in the bottom of my soul he wasn't going to be 'Patricia'... Oh well.

'Cecil' is a neat name and an easy one for him to reproduce if he's disposed to learn to speak. I think it suits him and his dapper good looks!

 

[Kitty]

Awh, sorry Betrisher! haha! If I ever decided to buy him a lady friend I will definitely call her Patricia

I just thought I'd update you all!
I'm now feeding Cecil with my hand inside his cage! I'm really pleased with his progress! While in the pet store last week Cecil was honking, panicking and lunging at anyone who went anywhere near his cage. The pet store owner had been bitten by Cecil several times and refused to put his hand inside the cage again unless he was wearing thick gardening gloves. After researching Rosella's I discovered they were difficult to tame and weren't really good pets...The shop owner said I must be mad for buying him but at this rate he'll be stepping up in no time

I'm not really bothered about him being cuddly. I just want to tame him so he can have a better quality of life, he was very frightened and distressed at the pet store which can't be healthy. I'd like him to be tame enough to 'step up' so I can let him out his cage (I can tell he's desperate to get some proper exercise so I can't wait to let him out!)

 

[Joshuwaaa]

Hi Kitty! Glad to hear Cecil is doing so well I followed your story mainly because you love local to me haha!
I saw a rosella in a store too, but about two months ago now. Their stunning birds!

Nice to see you here neighbour!

 

[Betrisher]

Kitty, I know people keep saying Rosellas don't make good pets, but I've known quite a few that did. It all depends on how much time you're ready to invest. It seems as though Our Cecil is likely to be one of the few - so keep at it with him! I hope to see pics of him soon, perched on your shoulder.

 

[TessieB]

Cecil: Great name for a great bird! Congratulations on your new family member! He's very attractive.