Everybody is introduced to the bird world different ways. I fancied myself a dog person for quite a while despite my parents being allergic to everything with fur.I wanted an intelligent pet that wouldn't send my parents into a sneezing fit. Fish and reptiles, for the most part, didn't cut it. And bird? they weren't even on my radar. That is until I took a walk in the park. Out of no where this pretty yellow bird flew down onto the telephone wires. Now I was no expert at that point but it definitely wasn't native. I called up to him and he fluttered down beside me. After a failed attempt to pick him up I finally wrapped him up in my scarf and took him home. There, once again, I was clueless as to what to do. I let him explore my backyard while my mom called the shelter (I now
know that letting a flighted bird that I didn't even know be outside was pretty stupid). My mom agreed, grudgingly, to let us keep the parrot which we finnally identified as a cockatiel until we could find his owners. And wow was being thrown into the avain world an experience. We never could find "Lucky's" owners and kept her for three or four years until she passed away from illness. I learned a lot in that time!
Any other great stories out there? I'd love to hear them ^^