Hello all, I have just joined this forum, I wanted to try and find out some history about the Red Bellied Parrot I adopted from the animal shelter, and it looks like I found it here.
Unfortunately Marty didn't keep Viktor for whatever reason, and he ended up in the animal shelter, he was then adopted, I presume last year sometime, by a woman who had quite a few different birds. Again, unfortunately Viktor got out of his cage, managing to open the catch, it was unfortunate for Viktor, as he ended up back in the animal shelter, but it was more unfortunate for the finches that the woman owned. They have now gone to birdy heaven!
He had been in the animal shelter for a couple of months before I saw him online, it seems like it was coming to the end of the road for Viktor, they would not allow him to be adopted by anyone with children or other pets, meaning his options were fairly limited with regards to finding a new home. So i decided to adopt him.
I have had birds before, but not a parrot. I don't really think he has ever been socialised and it's going to take sometime for him to become comfortable in his new surroundings.
He doesn't like hands, but he has started to follow me around, he flies to sit next to me in the mornings, and flies in to the kitchen and sits next to me when I am doing the dishes, so he seems to be getting used to me.
They wished me good luck when I left the animal shelter, I think they were all scared of him, but he hasn't bitten me, he has tried to, but after leaving my hand there with the back of it facing him, he has stopped bothering.
I'll let you know how I get on
