OutlawedSpirit
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- Apr 12, 2016
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- Parrots
- Bo - DYH ~ Gus - CAG ~ Twitch - Linnie ~ Apple - Pineapple GCC ~ Goliath - Quaker ~ Squish - Peach face Lovebird
How do you say goodbye willingly, even when you know it's what's best? No one passed to the bridge, but I didn't know where else was appropriate to post this.
Tomorrow I'm taking Gus, our CAG, to a friend who lives over 3 hours away. My wife and I decided it was best for him to find a new forever home.
He is really her bird and she is his person. However, she is always busy and very early home. Even when she is, she is not necessarily a "bird person". So she doesn't give him the attention he so desperately wants from her.
I have tried to give him extra attention. He's always out of his cage when I'm home. I've even given him more one on one lately than Bo to see if I could make him happier.
But I'm not his person.
So I sat my wife down and told her that her isn't happy ther way things are and she either needs to give up some of her extra activities to spend more time with him or we needed to find him a new home where he could bond with someone who could.
So we decided to rehome him. It breaks my heart because I love Gus and he is a great bird, but no matter what I do, as long as my wife is there, he's always going to want her affection and not get it, and I don't think that's fair to him.
It breaks my heart to let him go, but it breaks my heart even more to watch him longing for her.
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Tomorrow I'm taking Gus, our CAG, to a friend who lives over 3 hours away. My wife and I decided it was best for him to find a new forever home.
He is really her bird and she is his person. However, she is always busy and very early home. Even when she is, she is not necessarily a "bird person". So she doesn't give him the attention he so desperately wants from her.
I have tried to give him extra attention. He's always out of his cage when I'm home. I've even given him more one on one lately than Bo to see if I could make him happier.
But I'm not his person.
So I sat my wife down and told her that her isn't happy ther way things are and she either needs to give up some of her extra activities to spend more time with him or we needed to find him a new home where he could bond with someone who could.
So we decided to rehome him. It breaks my heart because I love Gus and he is a great bird, but no matter what I do, as long as my wife is there, he's always going to want her affection and not get it, and I don't think that's fair to him.
It breaks my heart to let him go, but it breaks my heart even more to watch him longing for her.
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