so we just dropped the puppy off for his second eye surgery. if you remember on April 12, Ryder had his surgery for cherry eye. well, he was doing great and late last week his stitches popped. they are doing the second surgery for free......i hated leaving him there again. the closer we got to the vet tonight the more agitated he became. he is begining to associate car rides with vet.
last night we went to talk to a lady that needs to get rid of her african gray (20 years old) and 9 cockatiels. she has been so upset about having to do it, but she is 71 and can't keep up with them any longer. i wanted to be a support post, so to speak, for her and to refer her to a local rescue that will monitor the birds adoptive home rather than give the bird to someone and not be able to do anything after the fact. well, i went over with the intentions of "not" comming home with any new birds. we go into the room she keeps them in and immediatly this male white faced grey is trying to get my attention and comes as close as the screening will allow. she opens the door and this cockatiel comes flying out and right to me. he sits there for the entire time we are talking and then this woman reaches over for "nemo" to step up.......low and behold he lunges for her, then snuggles closer to me. it was unreal. i told her there was no way i could leave without this bird if that was okay with her. she asked then if i would be willing to take his daddy also how is about 17 years old. i said absolutely. i wanted "nemo" to be as comfortable as possible with the transition. needless to say, i will go in the aviary now and he is either on my should within 5 seconds or on my head. he chatters to me something fierce lmao. he is most definately the sweetest cockatiel i have ever met in my life. i am so in love with this little bird.
so anyway, hopefully tomorrow i will have some pics i can post but its kind of difficult to take a pic with five or six tiels sitting about my head lol.
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