Change Is Good
Well, 2009 brought much work and many suprises in the world of Parrot rescue. I have now started my own facility and brought many of the birds with difficult issues with me from my previous facility where I was the Director. Over the past few months there were many times that I thought this was too much or that starting over was not worth it but as I have worked with these birds daily seeing the progress that each one is making I began to realize that every sweet birdie kiss makes it all worth while!
Simon and Sophia are a pair of Blue Crown Conures who were purchased as breeders by their previous owners. They had never been held and were very aggressive toward everyone; you could not get near them. Although they have a wonderful vocabulary and love to say things like ”I love you,” “Peak a Boo” and so forth. This made it even more heartbreaking when you realized that you couldn’t just pick them up and kiss all over them when they spoke so sweetly….for fear of having your face ripped off! :) We started working with them more right before Christmas and it wasn’t long before my son came running in one morning and he said “Mom, I got Sophia to step up!” I almost cried I was so excited that after all this time we were finally making progress. Over the next week we continued slowly trying to build trust with Simon who is a little more skeptical of us. Sophia got to where when Simon would try to bite us she would bite his toe and tell him “No” which I thought was very cute! Before we knew it we were able to get Simon to step up out of his cage, what a happy day! Now were are able to hold both of them although we have to be very careful and watch our movements as to not startle them and we still have to do the old dodge and weave to avoid Simon’s beak occasionally but we have high hopes for this New Year.
