Today we went to the local pet store to pick up a bag of food- something I've been putting off for a few days now.
I always visit the birds to see who's there, and today I discovered a 17 yr old U2 who was surrendered to the store 3 days ago. Of course, there was a sign discouraging anyone from sticking their fingers in his cage, and he was doing his best to ignore me. Finally after about at least 10 minutes of sweet talking him and trying to coax him over he finally did!
He turned into a giant puddle of marshmallow fluff, with sweet sounds ~he let me preen his pins, scratch his wings, rub his beak -the works. Now, normally- big beaks scare the heck outta me, but there was just something about him....I wasn't scared of him at all. It brought tears to my eyes, and had there not been bars between us I'm sure I would've held him like a baby.
The shop owner was surprised and told me to come back and visit him, which I probably will....and other customers saw me snuggling him and were amazed (remember the sign on his cage?) and of course I told them I had birds of my own and you have to understand their behaviors before sticking your fingers in random cages.
I can't get this guy out of my head, and I wish I had the money to bring him home
I always visit the birds to see who's there, and today I discovered a 17 yr old U2 who was surrendered to the store 3 days ago. Of course, there was a sign discouraging anyone from sticking their fingers in his cage, and he was doing his best to ignore me. Finally after about at least 10 minutes of sweet talking him and trying to coax him over he finally did!
He turned into a giant puddle of marshmallow fluff, with sweet sounds ~he let me preen his pins, scratch his wings, rub his beak -the works. Now, normally- big beaks scare the heck outta me, but there was just something about him....I wasn't scared of him at all. It brought tears to my eyes, and had there not been bars between us I'm sure I would've held him like a baby.
The shop owner was surprised and told me to come back and visit him, which I probably will....and other customers saw me snuggling him and were amazed (remember the sign on his cage?) and of course I told them I had birds of my own and you have to understand their behaviors before sticking your fingers in random cages.
I can't get this guy out of my head, and I wish I had the money to bring him home