I'm Sunny, all the way from not so sunny England, I'm a twenty two year old classics and archeo student who feels more and more jealous of the fact that people in the USA have such wondeful pet shops and online stores where they can buy their parrots great toys and food. i have yet to see a pet shop that sells pellets and most, even online ones, tend to sell crappy plastic toys for budgies. so i may just move there for the health of my birds lol
Meet Japh, he is very possibly the sweetest thing in the world, and the laziest. recall was such a trial with him as he would just stare at you with the saddest eyes until you inched your hand closer and closer, while begging him to come, then, when your hand was almost next to him he would hop on and be like "THERE! Now where's my treat?" But he took to target training like a demon, literally one lesson was all it took.
And this is Alex ... or Lex Luthor as we like to call her, she's not a horror bird (i can literally count one one hand how many times she's bitten me, and none have drawn blood) like some of the stories I've heard but compared to Japh she is a little diva. she will bully him and take his toys one second and then pine when he's out of the room and beg for his attention another second. She's the more outgoing and fiesty one, the one that flies to us first and hates to leave us most. Recall - easiest thing ever with her ... but target ... she looks at you as if to say "this is stupid and pointless and i won't do it." But once you win her over she's amazing, she's even curled up and gone to sleep right under my chin
We got them because my little brother, sister and I wanted a pet (a dog) and was told that nothing but a parrot was allowed (mother is a clean freak) ... unfortunatly i was scared of birds ... but i wanted a pet so badly i agreed. we drove six hours total through the night to get them, at first only intending to get Japh, but we fell in love with Alex as well and bought her on the spot from the breeder. she was a good lady, who was sad to see them go, a little teary even, and she had her own cockatiel who looked very loved who she said was born with splayed legs. but she kept the babies in a TINY cage with no toys but curtain hooks and toilet tubes so mine still have trouble playing with toys, espevially by themselves. and I was too scared to even go near them while they were out by myself, my hands used to shake when i held them and i was so scared of being bitten i wore a hoodie. now i am the most confident one aound them and i spend most time with them - and the most money on them lol. Not to mention, chasing them around with cameras:
Alex going after the camera cord. when i first got them as babies they had huge bald patches and strips of hair missing from the underside of the wings, hers have grown a little, now she looks like she has a comb over, but i think Japh will always look like a little monk. I have read that this can come from bad breeding and not from being babies like i first thought.
Alex climbing all over my sister, a little blurry but i loved this shot.
Anything that's attached to us, from buttons to zips to strings on hoodies is the favourite plaything - forget the expensive gym i bought them or the 10 quid shredder toy, they could entertain themselves for hours with a jacket zipper. and don't worry she was pulled away from the bad metal within seconds of me yelling at my sister.
Japh, and the money shot.
I buy them bird toys and they're too scared to go near it for days, wouldn't even touch it without millet blackmail. this though they immeditaly perch all over. this being the string from by robe lol.
