pmaholm

Hello Forums! My Name is Patrick and myself and my soon to be wife Meg are "new" bird owners(or is that bird owned?). Both of us have had birds as children Parakeets(me) and Cockatiels(her) but never a Grey. Our new addition to the family is a CAG named Refund(the first owners purchased him with their tax refund) he's about 20 years old and has been with his second owner for the past 15-17 years. His first owners gave him up to her sometime after he bit the husband and he hit Refund in the head as retaliation, when Refund was struck it dislocated his retna causing him to go blind in his right eye. He has also been in a breeding situation for the past 5 years or so and him and his mate began plucking one another and eating their eggs, so he was removed from that about a month and a half ago. He's doing well in the 3 weeks since we got him and he'll come out of his cage take treats, toys from us and make noises at us when we're around. No talking yet but the second owner said he does talk and it may just take us time for him to trust us. We're also trying to deal with the plucking as he seems to be doing it to himself now, however it's been a lot better since we added 100% pure aloe vera juice to his morning mist bath. I think that's the "brief" history of our time with Refund so far. -Patrick

Thanks for this topic! We're in nearly the same situation, we have a couple other things we're working on. One our CAG named "Refund" had been hit by his first owner and he is blind in his right eye, also he had been in a breeding situation for the last several years. We're just taking it slow and feeling out for what he likes and what he's used to. We've both got a lot to learn being first time bird owners(aside of parakeets and cockatiels when we were younger). We've noticed he doesn't pluck nearly as much since 1, he's gotten used to our home and 2, we started misting him daily with a water/100% aloe vera juice mix. -Patrick