An old bird

[Pajarita]

That's right! Macho to the end!

[Georges mom]

My Georgie is 60 and I can see he's still got it going on. He had some raging hormones for awhile getting all aggressive and biting everybody but it seems to be calming down. He was just always riveted to me with his "love stare" as I would call it and would scream the minute I left his sight. He always presents himself to me too when he wants immediate physical attention. George strikes a pose of head up slightly turned beak up and tail slightly fanned. I tell him how handsome he is and that I love him so much then he lowers his head for all of his scratches. I still think he smiles at me . We see the vet this Wednesday just for a checkup. I hope he doesn't hate me afterwards.

[galeriagila]

I absolutely love George's story. Makes me think of the old nursery rhyme...

"Georgie-porgie, puddin' and pie. Kiss the girls and make them cry."

A bird must get so smart in 60 years. So much a part of a family, a person's history. So involved. As someone once said to me "they may have a toddler's mind, but they've been a toddler for a lonnnnnnng time"!

The Rickeybird sometimes still looks out the window and calls the name of a cat who passed away 30 years ago. Rarely, he'll do the same about long gone relatives or pets. It used to send my grandmother into hysterics: she was sure he was seeing ghosts.

Old birds are such a treasure. I'm so grateful for mine, and I can feel how much you adore your Georgie. I would absolutely love to see a picture of him someday. I'm a fan. Please tell some more Georgie-porgie stories!!!

Gail

P.S. I know that love-stare, by the way.

[Georges mom]

I would love to post a pic of George, I have so many of them on my iPad but I don't know how to reduce the size of it to fit the forum post. Can you help me??

[galeriagila]

Here's what I did.
Go find Photobucket on the net. Join. It's free and easy.
Then upload your pics to there.
Then click on the "image" option when you view a photo... it will say "copied". Then come here... paste it in and there ya go. If you need more help, I'll be glad to help!
I wanna see Goergie-Porgie.
You could email them to me and I could try, if all else fails,

[Wolf]

If you PM me, I will give you my e mail address. You can send mr the pics and I will post them here for you.

[galeriagila]

There we go... thank you, Wolf!

[seagoatdeb]

If you want your pic to be big, size it on photobucket to the maximum dimensions this site allows.

[Georges mom]

Thank you everybody for your help. Gail, I sent you some pics and Wolf, I'm trying to decide which one I want you to post. George didn't get to the vet today he refused to cooperate so she'll have to come here. I hate having him stresss out so I don't force him with anything. It's a nice travel cage/ carrier I got and he's normally fine with it but today he just wouldn't have it. Bird moods!!

[galeriagila]

I cannot WAIT!!!!!

I keep a scrapbook for the Rickeybird, and pictures of his "friends", both met and not met (yet) go there, too. Thank you so much. I'll post the minute I get them!