Bacca after one week

We "rescued" Bacca from a family that rarely took her out of her cage (the wife was scared of the bird and the husband worked long hours and wasn't home much).

What I hadn't realized when we agreed to take her is they weren't the original owner and whoever originally trained her did a great job. Bacca understands step up / step down commands (she will even vocalize step up at us from time to time when she wants to be picked up). She tries to vocalize the words in her bedtime story (Not Goodnight moon but a story along time same lines). She's also toilet trained. If you've got her she'll let you know and you can put her on the perch and she'll go and then move to the end to be picked up again.

She's also a hell of a dancer when I put music on.

We took her to the vet for routine checkup (and blood and we decided we'd get her sexed so we can properly attribute the right pronouns to her/him. We've got a turtle with the same problem).

Here's Bacca on the joining my wife on the elliptical.

She looks happy! Quakers are such curious and social little birds. They can't contain themselves. That's Adorable!!

Awww, look at that! Happy to see Bacca has moved in and taken charge! Very clever birds, have fun!

I work from home so I figured I'd put a perch for her in my office. Early attempts to do so however had got her very upset (when she was flighted she'd fly around the office in panic). I move the perch just outside the office and she seems content to watch me work. Just now she hopped down off the perch strolled around and started climbing my leg. Now she's sitting on my wrirst while I'm typing. I guess she got over the fear of my office.

And the vet just called. Despite the protestations of the previous owner, Bacca tests out to be a girl.

Bacca made her second road trip today (we were supposed to fly but the weather was lousy). She spent the first two hours of the trip singing along with the XM Radio Jazz channel (I'm convinced her original owner must have been a jazz buff) and in between she talked up a storm. Usually she doesn't say much but she let us have it with all sorts of things we'd not heard before while she was in the back seat. That and her raucous laugh she gives us. The bird apparantly loves to travel by car or by air.