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Sunny a female B&G macaw;
Japie (m) & Appie (f), both are congo african grey;
All are rescues- had to leave their previous homes for 'reasons', are still in contact with them :)
Getting a parrot for free sounds great (especially if you are looking for your first/second bird).
Of course there is no such thing as a free lunch!
("Free parrot" always comes with costs for the vet - usually a lot because, well -most people- do not give away a bird if nothing is wrong with it).
I love animals, and talk about animals a lot (grinnn, I bet you have already noticed that ) so if it comes to "hmmm I want/need to get rid of my pet" sometimes mine is the first name that pops up in peoples minds.
So yea... I've been given a few budgies (a complete psycho included), a group of geriatric aviary birds, a CAG, a macaw, plenty of tropical fish, spiders, hamsters, stick-insects, beetles etc.etc. over the years.
I love(d) them all (well almost, I had one hamster that drove me up the walls), but.... enough is enough!
My house is full!
And it is hard - sometimes you can see it coming a mile away: someone you know is "getting a bird" without realizing what they are getting themselves into and not doing their homework. So I talk them through it as far as they are willing to listen
( NO DONT DO IT usually does not get heard)-
and after a year or so - after they have unintentionally and wellmeaning trained their bird to scream non-stop or bite (or both) I get the:
"well this is not working out for us, we are getting rid of it, can we give it to you / do you want another bird?"
... and I found myself saying "no" to a lovely young galah (Eolophus roseicapillus ) a couple of years ago just because -well- this house is already filled with animals.
And the ridiculous thing is- I *still* worry about that cutie!
I've been part of the story of that birds life (unfortunately not a succes story) and now ... I can only hope he is going to be okay (he was offloaded to the first person who "wanted a bird" so I have no great hopes there).
Partly because of that one I made some room for Sunny.
(maybe not the best idea ever ... but still: you don't pick your parrots - sometimes they find you. One moment I had a general conversation about plucking, the next was asked to come pick up their parrot )
Usually I just bombard people with adresses of rehoming-groups, but I find sometimes people are so fed up they no longer want to bother giving their bird a good chance at a new home or are incapable of delivering their bird there.
( LOL if I had a car I would be parrot-taxi-ing a lot! )
so ... on MP ( like craighslist) etc. they go ...
Anyway- I cannot be the only one this has happened/ is happening to-
so, my question:
How do you handle these kind of situations?
.
Of course there is no such thing as a free lunch!
("Free parrot" always comes with costs for the vet - usually a lot because, well -most people- do not give away a bird if nothing is wrong with it).
I love animals, and talk about animals a lot (grinnn, I bet you have already noticed that ) so if it comes to "hmmm I want/need to get rid of my pet" sometimes mine is the first name that pops up in peoples minds.
So yea... I've been given a few budgies (a complete psycho included), a group of geriatric aviary birds, a CAG, a macaw, plenty of tropical fish, spiders, hamsters, stick-insects, beetles etc.etc. over the years.
I love(d) them all (well almost, I had one hamster that drove me up the walls), but.... enough is enough!
My house is full!
And it is hard - sometimes you can see it coming a mile away: someone you know is "getting a bird" without realizing what they are getting themselves into and not doing their homework. So I talk them through it as far as they are willing to listen
( NO DONT DO IT usually does not get heard)-
and after a year or so - after they have unintentionally and wellmeaning trained their bird to scream non-stop or bite (or both) I get the:
"well this is not working out for us, we are getting rid of it, can we give it to you / do you want another bird?"
... and I found myself saying "no" to a lovely young galah (Eolophus roseicapillus ) a couple of years ago just because -well- this house is already filled with animals.
And the ridiculous thing is- I *still* worry about that cutie!
I've been part of the story of that birds life (unfortunately not a succes story) and now ... I can only hope he is going to be okay (he was offloaded to the first person who "wanted a bird" so I have no great hopes there).
Partly because of that one I made some room for Sunny.
(maybe not the best idea ever ... but still: you don't pick your parrots - sometimes they find you. One moment I had a general conversation about plucking, the next was asked to come pick up their parrot )
Usually I just bombard people with adresses of rehoming-groups, but I find sometimes people are so fed up they no longer want to bother giving their bird a good chance at a new home or are incapable of delivering their bird there.
( LOL if I had a car I would be parrot-taxi-ing a lot! )
so ... on MP ( like craighslist) etc. they go ...
Anyway- I cannot be the only one this has happened/ is happening to-
so, my question:
How do you handle these kind of situations?
.
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