Pengle
New member
- Feb 28, 2013
- 11
- 0
- Parrots
- Velvet, 24 yr old CAG who was a fledgling wild caught import when we got her. Sam, 18 yr male U2 we just adopted (mutilator/plucker)
I have been the Mom to a CAG for the past 23 years, we got Velvet when she was about 6 months old. She was a wild caught import and afraid of the world! We got her because we thought no one else would want her. I was cooking for her the other morning and it came to me that I always make enough food to feed more birds so my husband and I decided to find a bird that needed a home. We were going to get one that was really old, really mean or for some other reason not very adoptable.
I am lucky and work at a vet clinic with a vet who does a lot of avian work. I told her about my plan and she told me that she had one in mind. There was an umbrella cockatoo that had severely mutilated herself. That she had bonded so closely to her owner that anytime she was around him she would begin doing this. It had all started when the other parrot they had died about 4 years ago. The 2 had been at the clinic trying to get into a sanctuary but there are just so many in need and few openings, especially for a plucker. Her skin and muscle has grown back (with medical help) but she still plucks. I guess this is her last chance at a home. I requested that testing be done to make sure that she didn't have anything that Velvet could catch.........and as soon as those results are back and (if) she is negative, we will bring her home.
I am sure I am going to have a lot of questions and stories!! HA!
Thanks!
Pengle
I am lucky and work at a vet clinic with a vet who does a lot of avian work. I told her about my plan and she told me that she had one in mind. There was an umbrella cockatoo that had severely mutilated herself. That she had bonded so closely to her owner that anytime she was around him she would begin doing this. It had all started when the other parrot they had died about 4 years ago. The 2 had been at the clinic trying to get into a sanctuary but there are just so many in need and few openings, especially for a plucker. Her skin and muscle has grown back (with medical help) but she still plucks. I guess this is her last chance at a home. I requested that testing be done to make sure that she didn't have anything that Velvet could catch.........and as soon as those results are back and (if) she is negative, we will bring her home.
I am sure I am going to have a lot of questions and stories!! HA!
Thanks!
Pengle
