I grow up around animals. My father had an aviary full of breeding parakeets. I would sit for hours watching them. We also had peacocks, tumbler pigeons, bantam chickens and oodles of other animals. I always wanted a parrot, they fascinated me; they could talk. I can finally have the parrot I dreamed about, well really I dreamed about a Blue and Gold Hyacinth, but as I grew older I fell in love with African Greys. Ana Grey is a doll, she is sitting right now on the back of my chair with her head on my shoulder, she is such a love.