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I have fibromyalgia I lived in Vancouver for 4 years I have perfect eyesight

This is one of the few holidays we here in Canada do not share with our American neighbours. We have our Remembrance Day in November. I like especially that you are including all the animals that have served and been lost, something I've never heard mention during our services. I'll be including it from now on. Thank you. Marguerite Dorian and Jac

So are you moved yet? Any adventures to tell us about?

Gracie and you are doing great. Sorry about the buffet. They can be single minded little brats at times. Great to hear about her letting her feathers grow in. I've also got a bird that I suspect was never allowed to fledge. Sometimes I wish I had another bird around here that flew that could set an example for him, but I can't responsibly take on another bird right now. She'll grow comfortable outside of her comfort zone on her own time. It took Dorian almost 3 years before he would go outside of the room his cage was in. At the pace Gracie is moving at I'm sure it will be much faster for her. Dorian took the phrase baby steps very seriously lol.

Dorian is not usually loud, he's just infatuated with this new sound. The most noise he makes is the ringing of his bell when he is beating the snot out of it lol. He goes through a noisy patch in the morning when he figures it's time for me to be up and serving him, and he's chatting away in the background right now because he thinks he has to compete with the Netflix I've got going on my iPad but no, I wouldn't call him a usually loud bird.

I love his voice. He sure told you!

Luvparrots, you do not drive a convertible?

Yes, and now Dorian is doing a perfect imitation of it, at full volume. sigh

I took Dorian to the groomers yesterday. He was such a good, gentle boy while being toweled, only chewing on the towel a bit. My groomer has a beautiful umbrella cockatoo who, over the course of his life, has had some major health issues. It's to the point that if he even see a towel he freaks out. Unfortunately when a cockatoo freaks out he gets LOUD! Just as Dorian and I were headed out the door he does a perfect cockatoo scream. He proceeded to do the scream in the car all the way home. By the time we pulled into the driveway I was quite deaf! Now, he hasn't done it in the house, so I'm crossing my fingers that I won't have to go through a sound extinguishing exercise with him. Cross your fingers with me. I couldn't live with that sound all day every day, no matter how beautiful the bird is. My hat is off to those of you with cockatoos.

sconeswatch, best idea if you start your own thread if you want to get good responses.

So, how do Snickers and your husband get along now?

You may have hijacked the thread Sterling, but you did it adorably.

When I first got Dorian there was no way he was trustworthy enough to be a shoulder bird. He was aggressive and extremely high strung. Now that I could probably trust him on my shoulder, he has absolutely no interest in being up there, I've tried. He wants no part of it.

Happy happy birthday!!!

Dorian is unclipped but does not fly. I believe he was clipped before he fledged. His first owners kept him clipped at all times. There are times when it seems like he's flying short distances on purpose but I can't be sure because he does fly when something startles him, and I don't always know what that thing has been. He seems quite content to depend on me for rides from room to room, but I do wish he could fly.

I hate to say it but I don't know if I could pick out Dorian in a grey line up. Maybe by his beak and talons. They're both slightly overgrown because they were never trimmed for the first four years of his life so now my groomer can only trim them back so far. I know he'd clam right up because even the appearance of a repair man causes him to clam up around here! He used to have pink coloured trousers but they've gradually molted out.

Well, Dorian belonged to the owner of a pet store that opened in town. They had his cage right in the centre of the store in a high traffic area. I met the owner when she joined the chapter of TOPS that I was leading. I started shopping in the store for my cat Jac and became fascinated by Dorian, the first parrot I had ever really been around. I started researching African greys, which is how I found this forum. I started to realize that he wasn't in a great situation where he was. People would poke things into his cage, and he would freeze as soon as someone came into the store. He was terrified of people, especially their hands. Overall, he was scared most of the time he was in there. Also, his water wasn't being changed very often, and neither was his food. Well, his owner got breast cancer. Myself and another member of TOPS took over the store to keep it open while she got treatment. I started working with Dorian, getting him to let me put my hands inside his cage, cleaning his cage, changing his water etc... He started making mating noises for me (I figured out what he was doing here). By the time his owner came back to the store he wanted nothing to do with her. As far as he was concerned, she'd just vanished on him, right? She saw how he was interacting with me, but he was still her bird. Then she had another cancer scare. At that point she decided to close the store for good, and she offered to let me buy Dorian and his cage. I paid her $100 a month until he was paid off and he came home with me. That's the Reader's Digest version of how Dorian became my baby. This forum and the information I got here played a large part in bringing him home.

I agree. With walnuts I have to crack them open and then I give half a nut to Dorian for him to dig the meat of the nut out of the shell. It's a favourite treat around here to hear that walnut shell crack open.

I had my allergies re-tested last spring and came out severely allergic to my dynamic duo, Dorian and Jac the cat. He advised me to get rid of them. I advised him that wasn't an option, so we compromised on a nasel spray. I also should take stock in Kleenex!

That bird fair would have killed me. Just your description has me worried about all those poor babies. I guess all we can hope is that those new owners find a safe spot on the net like this that will guide them through hand feeding and ownership. I'm glad you didn't get pierced. I'm not sure they get the "don't bite the momma's" talks. I know I've had a few with Dorian and he just sits there staring at me blankly.

Nope, the bunny's name was Charlie, after Charlie Parker, but never called bird.

I have never been married I am an athiest I once had a pet bunny named bird

Greywings, you have not worked at four zoos.

Hello Jester Bean. You don't look grumpy to me! Lol

I'm so happy to check in and see good news here. So glad all your hard work and sleepless nights are paying off. Give her a kiss from me.