Internet is being super super slow so I'll upload videos tomorrow 
Ok, so today I had to travel out of town for a medical assessment and as per usual I always check if there's a pet store around about nearby when ever I visit anywhere - but only if they have live animals (ahem, birdies).
I got to meet yet again another bird of Prey, an African Barn Owl. He was just the sweetest, he'd bow his head for scritches and do this cute little wobble when sitting around. So so so sweet.
Then I met the sweetest little Grey (they breed them there) and he had come to be boarded for a short while whilst his owners went away.
Meet Frankie, he says 'hewwo' and a whistle, that's the most I got out of him! He'd only been there a little over an hour before I arrived and I didn't notice him at first, the shop people said he'd just be sat on the bottom of his cage taking everything in, so I go and sit on the floor by his cage and start chatting to him for a good half hour or so. He soon perked up
Then the Macaw, he was pretty intimidating, I've met macaws before but I've never had the pleasure of meeting a nice one who offers his head for scritches! He was such a sweetie, a little scary when he had my finger in his mouth through the cage bars and tried pulling himself up onto my finger and squarking! But all was forgiven after a head scritch. I think he wanted lots of help with his feathers, he seemed like he's moulting atm. ^^
I was impressed by this store on how well they test and look after the babies that come through. Little bit disappointed on how clean the bird cages were, but meh. :/
Overall lovely experience, I felt no pressure to buy anything (so poor *sob*) and just basically hung around with the birds for a while, yey me.
They also do a payment plan on a 'Grey package' which includes grey, hatch cert, pbfd cert, dna sexing, cage, toys, food all for a grand total of... £1050 I believe it was he said.
It's a lot but I think it's reasonable - especially after I met that chick, he kept biting my fingers, but not biting, just... mouthing, giving me a good once over with that beak! Absolutely smitten and he was gorgeous. Me and my other half are considerrrrrrrrrrring the payment plan, but we don't know. Andy's had his heart set on a Grey for quite a while now, so we'll see how it goes. No money at the moment, so obviously that's gonna be a long way down the line.
Ok, so today I had to travel out of town for a medical assessment and as per usual I always check if there's a pet store around about nearby when ever I visit anywhere - but only if they have live animals (ahem, birdies).
I got to meet yet again another bird of Prey, an African Barn Owl. He was just the sweetest, he'd bow his head for scritches and do this cute little wobble when sitting around. So so so sweet.
Then I met the sweetest little Grey (they breed them there) and he had come to be boarded for a short while whilst his owners went away.
Meet Frankie, he says 'hewwo' and a whistle, that's the most I got out of him! He'd only been there a little over an hour before I arrived and I didn't notice him at first, the shop people said he'd just be sat on the bottom of his cage taking everything in, so I go and sit on the floor by his cage and start chatting to him for a good half hour or so. He soon perked up
Then the Macaw, he was pretty intimidating, I've met macaws before but I've never had the pleasure of meeting a nice one who offers his head for scritches! He was such a sweetie, a little scary when he had my finger in his mouth through the cage bars and tried pulling himself up onto my finger and squarking! But all was forgiven after a head scritch. I think he wanted lots of help with his feathers, he seemed like he's moulting atm. ^^
I was impressed by this store on how well they test and look after the babies that come through. Little bit disappointed on how clean the bird cages were, but meh. :/
Overall lovely experience, I felt no pressure to buy anything (so poor *sob*) and just basically hung around with the birds for a while, yey me.
They also do a payment plan on a 'Grey package' which includes grey, hatch cert, pbfd cert, dna sexing, cage, toys, food all for a grand total of... £1050 I believe it was he said.
It's a lot but I think it's reasonable - especially after I met that chick, he kept biting my fingers, but not biting, just... mouthing, giving me a good once over with that beak! Absolutely smitten and he was gorgeous. Me and my other half are considerrrrrrrrrrring the payment plan, but we don't know. Andy's had his heart set on a Grey for quite a while now, so we'll see how it goes. No money at the moment, so obviously that's gonna be a long way down the line.
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