Weird. I have a home for Jovie... The plot thickens.

[Azure Hanyo]

So Jovie is a he, and I was lied to about who the previous owner got him from. Jovie's name is Pretzel, he is male, and was a parent-raised bird being kept at a bird fair. The lady who took him home from the show was there to get bird supplies and saw Pretzel in a small cage with two wild-caught caiques and couldn't leave him there to his horrible fate. She immediately bought him and took him home, her first-ever bird purchase from a fair. The reason she gave him away to the lady I bought him from was that she (Laura) only bought him to save him (as I did) and wanted to foster him to a good home and thought she had found one.

Which is how I found him on craigslist. The first person to buy Jovie/Pretzel from that bird fair was named Laura, and she saw my post for help on my local bird rescue's facebook page!!! She knew the name of the woman I purchased him from, she knew his exact age and what he ate and liked to play with. It was crazy. Fate is so strange. The cage he was in? Yeah that was his TRAVEL CARRIER Laura gave to the lady who said she had a nice cage for him at home.

So Laura is going to come get her baby back, and this time he is staying with her forever. A happy, yet extremely weird story full of coincidences. I hope this made sense. It has more details and twists and even a part where someone was trying to sell Jovie as a "proven male breeder" even though he is only a year old....yeah. Odd.

YAY FOR LAURA!!!!!!!

[zazanomore]

Poor Jovie

[Becco Lunatico]

Wow. Just wow. There is a bird God (:

[Shani]

Oh my goodness. That poor, poor bird. I've heard about things like that, but my goodness. Good on you and Laura for saving this bird, but from what I've been able to gather about this story... ugh. Let's just hope Laura's being completely truthful about keeping him permanently.

[entrancedbymyGCC]

It's a small world! I'm guessing the bird world is even smaller. Good news for Jovie/Pretzel!

[Azure Hanyo]

I am sad to see him go, but I truly believe Laura is telling the truth. I spoke with her by phone, and her facebook page shows a LOT of bird rescuing, photographs, and stories. She is friends with people who work at and are associated with the rescue I got Galileo from. When I spoke with Laura by phone she was so knowledgeable, knew exactly what the bird needed, the types of perches- she could not have scripted this stuff. And if she were lying, I highly doubt someone who has no real love and interest in this one little splay-leg bird would go through so much trouble to contact me, do research about what happened and where he has been. Her tone of voice was one of love for Jovie/Pretzel, and yes obviously anger about the person who told lies about her and what she had done with the bird.

She and I will most likely be meeting at the rescue sometime early December, and I will bring Jovie/Pretzel to her.