Peek-a-boo!
We are fostering Charlie, the blue fronted Amazon Parrot.
His last owners were an elderly couple. The wife was admitted to hospital and the husband felt that he could not longer care for Charlie...........
I was in the Pet shop during the summer on the day that he landed back in, and asked a few questions about him......... and then forgot about him :-(
I was back in the same shop earlier this week, to buy supplies for the tortoises that aren't hibernating..... and noticed Charlie again..... only this time he was a shadow of himself.... lonely and depressed. Parrots mate for life, and the only mate he had known (his former owner) had left him.
Now the pet shop is very nice.... and the people working there are lovely but it's in a big warehouse type building that never gets very warm and gets positively freezing at night. Parrots are intelligent and sociable animals and like to have a 'flock' around them...... the pet shop closed in the evening, re-opened in the morning......... and it was closing for 3 days over the Christmas.
Soft touch that I am, I agreed to take him home over Christmas to see how he fitted into our 'mad house'.
I came home this morning from doing the Christmas Grocery shop to find the clever bird had opened his cage and was roosting in the Christmas tree....(probably the only tree he has ever seen.)
So from Charlie Bird and the O'Dwyer Family,
We hope that you have a very Merry Christmas............. or whatever holiday you celebrate........
and a very Happy New year!
xxx
