Bought - Adopted - Rescued

[dougal]

I purched Billy for my daughter Sam in December 2007 as my husband promised to buy one for her but sadly dies in the September. We bought him from a breeder when just weaned but used to go and see him and his every week sister from when his first baby feathers appeared. Billy has helped us with the greiving  as he loves being with me and my two daughters so our minds have been active with research for him and my husband would have loved him to death as he loved all animals, including spiders (who he gave names to). We also have an 8 year old yorkshire terrier named Penny and a snake named Pepsi. Billy and Penny get on really well together but Billy is the one in charge.

Chris, Sam, Sarah.

[lezab]

I'm so sorry to read about your husband. 

[Jutar]

I was doing a home visit to a family whose son was getting into trouble...I saw my Charlie and it seemed that he was not happy...plucking, sitting at the back of his cage with no interaction, in a household that was loud and at times violent. I knew the Father needed money to get his car on the road so propositioned that I have Charlie and would give him the money for his car.....Charlie now gets loads of interaction...hardly plucks at all, shouts and laughs, out of his cage most o0f the time and genuinely appears to be happy.

Jutar

[billysprout]

A nice happy ending for Charlie, its a shame when they are bought for novelty only.

[lezab]

A disaster in my Bandit's case 

[billysprout]

Can you imagine how he would be feeling and behaving by now if you had left him? Looking forward to posts from you saying Bandit did this and Bandit did that and they are all nice things, we can have a race between Billy and Bandit to see who gets them tame first. My money would be on you though! 

[lezab]

I wouldn't bet on it. 

[jules]

hey leza stop putting yourself and bandit down. if it wasn't for you poor bandit might not have been here much longer but in birdie heaven.

sing what me and jasper sing 'ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE'

[jcoop126]

We inherited wally from my dad when him and my mum got divorced.  Wally is quite well adjusted considering that my dad would punch his cage when he couldn't stand the car alarm noise and would punish him for biting for weeks on end by leaving him in his cage.  I still have troubles but he loves the hubby and i am now making progress (wally seemed to have a serious problem with women, hence we think that he may be a she)

jenny

[ukgrey]

I adopted a quaker 12 months ago (well rescued i suppose would be more apt)  I wanted a parrot for ages and i think this is where my obsession with parrots begins.  I initially waited 3 years deliberating over whether to get a parrot or not and when i stumbled across him the decision was made for me as i couldn't leave him where he was!  How does this relate to my African Grey?  I love my Quaker loads but my initial obsession was with african greys i think they are amazing.  This is the first time i have been in a position to give the bird enough attention and time and i have searched high and low to find the correct bird for me!  I eventually found a private breeder over the internet, have done lots of checks to be sure he's legitimate (as i know that some people on the net are dodgy)  I'm going to view my baby next month where i will ask even more questions and then, if all is well, i will bring him home in December when he is old enough.  I'm gonna be heart broken if something goes wrong because i have my heart set on this bird being home with me before christmas!   

[Carrie]

I have been fascinated by African Grey's since childhood. I am now 52! My mother was raised with one (she was born in 1912) She would tell me stories about him. As a child we had a Green Amazon who is still alive, he is 50 next year and lives with my brother. I knew I always wanted to own a bird and I wanted an African Grey.

Ollie a Moluccan Cockatoo came into our lives in 1989, he was a captured bird that we rescued, he was such a sad and beaten down bird, we gave him the best life we could. Sadly he died of cancer a year ago. In 1994 we got a female Moluccan Cocatoo as we thought she would maybe help Ollie. She is a hand reared bird who was returned to a pet shop and she now thinks she is married to my husband! She also loves me but not as much as my husband. 8 years ago we got a Goffin Cockatoo, she was from a pet shop (which I said I would never do, I said I would only take in rescues) but she was adorable and stole our hearts! She is a little devil and rules the roost but is a coward at heart!!

When Ollie died, we said no more new birdies! We are getting to an age where they will out live us and what would happen to them. My life long dream of having a Grey would never happen :\ This week we went into our local pet shop, a woman had traded in her 4 year old TAG for an Electus ..... that broke my heart, so I now have my grey, my heart is content!

[myjasmine]

 I rescued Jasmine from the local shelter. She was found in a cat carrier, next to a dumpster. She was thought to be a vulture because she had plucked(lost) her feathers on her head and neck. I feel so lucky because the shelter knew zero about birds, and needed someone to take her(might be a him). I've always loved birds, and wanted a "big" bird someday.  Well, my someday is here, and I'm so happy. Unfortunately, I don't know anything of her background, and obviously, she was neglected. She may be around 2-3 years?  I know she is not very young.  She has a whole catalog of whistles, including the sound your smoke detector makes when the battery is low. Piercing!  She won't let me handle her, but I feel we have made some progress. She doesn't run to the other side of the cage, and only lunges as if to bit every so often. I hope that with time we will be able to play.

[Tab]

Ozzie was up for adoption for free. The person whom I adopted  from was separated with two children and lots of pets. She didn't have the time for Oz as she was busy with everything else house, children work etc. So she interviewed some people and when we went there Oz came to me and to both of my sons and she was very pleased with everthing and now we have our Oz and we both are so happy. I keep in touch with her and send her pics and sometimes I feel I know them well as Oz tells all secrets. He calls them by name and he is always telling Daniel (her little boy) to eat his food among many other things. True we must be careful what we say in front of them as they will tell your business 
Tab & Oz

[roz]

Some of these stories make me sad - but happy because i think the majority of us are responsible, heart filled parents that want the best for our kids .. why else would we have them ?

Sigh .. nice stories

Roz and Herbert

[pacosmomma]

I am a rescue organization and it was given to us and I took him for myself, but we don't rescue parrots.