The poor girl ate nothing but raw nuts in her previous life but she loves her gloop now and is widening her diet 'horizons' daily (she now eats several fruits and some greens and veggies) but she is the sweetest, sweetest, sweetest thing! Never bites, never screams, never chews on furniture or clothes, doesn't bother other birds, asks you for head scritches all the time but it's not clingy at all and follows me around the house when I do my chores in the early morning to the point that she has learned my routine so well that she flies up the stairs to wait for me exactly when I am supposed to go
- clever girl!Her previous owner said she had only said Hello once, very softly, and never again but he is wrong because she says 'Come here', 'Baby' (and 'Come here, baby'), 'Pretty bird' and 'Salaam alaikum' which leads me to believe that he is a Muslim (he's from Hungary). She also says something that sounds like human speech when she is annoyed but it must be Hungarian because I can't understand a single word
She ended up with me by accident, actually. I saw an ad on NYC Craigslist and answered it because it was asking for a home with a ARB male and I have a friend who had just taken in one that is completely hands-off so I figured he could definitely use a bird friend. So I started corresponding with the guy, asking and answering questions about diet, light schedule, etc and invited him to come over and see my birdroom, which he promptly accepted. He did come but he did not come alone, he came with Isis which prompted a bit of a scolding from me because he had used the subway to get to Manhattan and the train to come into NJ and this was not only a long trip but also way too stressful for her. We had a nice visit and they left BUT then he emailed me telling me that he had decided that he did not even want to check out my friend (she lives in Pennsylvania), that he wanted me to have her. Problem was, he was leaving for Hungary in a week so I was in a quandary about what to do as I did not want her going to a rescue but felt she did not really needed me. But, of course, you already know what the denouement was as I am telling you about her
And, although I feel guilty about taking her in, I have to say she is the perfect, perfect, perfect pet parrot! Something so very rare that even exceptions are usually unheard of!
