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When I go and visit my parents I regularly take Alfie with me in his travel cage. My dad is largely indifferent about Alfie (he hasn't forgiven Alfie for biting him on the finger once when he was a baby bird). My mum has been trying really hard for months and months to get on Alfie's good side... and it's been working. Whenever she visits me Alfie gets all excited to see her and will whistle and make lots of noise until she comes over and says hello. When I visit them Alfie normally stays in his travel cage but my mum has been quite brave recently and has said he can come out. She sits on the other end of the sofa from me (and dad stays on the other sofa out of the way) and Alfie typically wanders around the sofa and goes to see her. Recently they have both been super brave and Alfie has allowed my mum to give him head scritches... and mum has been brave enough to do it. Alfie has been enjoying it so much that he makes a beeline straight for my mum and will sit there for the rest of the evening enjoying his head scritches. He even started closing his eyes last time! I'm super happy that they've managed to build on their relationship. Mum was always interested in Alfie and helped me wean him when I first got him. Unfortunately he did bite her a few times so she backed off a bit and got scared (fair enough) and then me and Alfie moved out. She's still wary of being bitten but Alfie has been really good. He will very gently grab her hand/fingers if she dares to stop scratching his head. 😂 I'm still not on this level of head scritches with Alfie. I can give a quick scritch but then he tends to wander off or move his head. He tolerates me, at best! Slight jealousy aside, I'm super happy that him and mum have gotten this far. 😄

Hi friends, For those who do not know of Tinkerbell or me, first take a look at these collection of photographs. Each refresh of URL below will show more photos taken at random http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9'>http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9 A love story of me and my Tinkerbell, a free flying Congo African Grey parrot CAG , as we roamed about the mountains and forests and cities of Taiwan. She loves to go riding with me on the motorbike as she sit on a perch on the handle bar. Full details of that and more are in that webpage, together with URLs to the relevant folders of hundreds of photos. Without those photos, what I wrote will never be believed You can live with a flying parrot at home. That is the legacy that Tinkerbell will like you to have ShanLung each refresh of URL below show more photos http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9

Come on Grammy....gib headrub 😍 🥰

That is so sweet! The joys of being a grandparront

It is such a nice surprise to see this forum still very much alive. And on top of that, this thread not closed off. Too many years from the time I reported I be in Riyadh to now. The passing of Ivan made me realised time running out and I left Riyadh. https://www.facebook.com/shanlung/posts/10157290571053421 ********************************** This was in Quora, written on 21 Jan 2018 as an answer to How can I say goodbye to a loved dying cat? But I like this to be in my Facebook as well. This was in parts and bits from Facebook and other forums earlier on, and kind of compiled into Quora Extracted in full below from https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-say-goodbye-to-a-loved...# And added a few more nuggets of Ivan as well ****************************************** Written before to a similar situation. Repeated here in full. This will be a series of letters written by me to one of my forum on the passing away of Ivan. He was with us for 21 years. 88888888888888888888888888888888888 I now have a grey. I named her Vorna. The good witch of Rigante world and who saw Riamfada running for the first time to that old sacred tree. She was not fledged and not flying for 13 years. With a chain to her foot. She bit and attacked an owner for 5 years until she was sold for a song to my friend Charles. And then bit and nailed and attacked him for another 5 years until he begged me to take her in Sept 2019. I refused as I liked travelling and going to see Tinkerbell periodically. I went to Taiwan 2 times in 2019 https://www.facebook.com/shanlung/posts/10157820326633421 Nov 2019 https://www.facebook.com/shanlung/posts/10157355673273421 May 2019 Then COVID19 hit us. I knew no travelling about for a long time. I then accepted Charles offer and when lockdown was temporary over in July 2020, I went to get that CAG that I called Vorna. She had not name prior to that. I fought the battle for her heart and her mind while she attacked and nailed and whacked me for a couple of months. Then I won her over. And slowly as she molted, I returned to her her heritage of flight. This and the links inside will explain how Vorna and I got along https://shanlung.livejournal.com/168696.html

Love the picture!!!!

Such an adorable picture!

Folks, Thanks. Here is a happier Tinkerbell story that happened last weekend http://shanlung.livejournal.com/73532.html Warmest regards Shanlung