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I love the pictures of the second grey how sweet and curious. Such a curious poser.

Now you're just showing off Bongo!!! Good job!

So sorry for your loss of sweet Lorka. Some day you will find a parrot who needs a loving home and you will be prepared to take him in. It just takes time.

Good luck to Cotay in her new and loving home.

As Dan said start with short jaunts and all will be fine. Just let Alfie knows what's going and be calm and casual. My three love rides in the car.

Oh Dear, well Ray your heart was in the right place just your shoes of the wrong feet! So glad all is well with your fids. At least your heart and lungs got a good workout. I'm going to have a margarita for you and your family. Cheers and a big hug for the fids!

I am so sorry for your loss of sweet Echo.

H Melba, because you are asking questions, I know you will be a great parront! The only thing I can add is talk to your new friend. Greys are very intuitive and understand much more than anyone gives them credit for. Tell your grey what you are doing and do everything slowing but not fearfully. Greys read body language. What is your new companion's name?

Hi OceanCrazy, looking forward to learning more about your new TAG!

My zon loves to preen my hair and I love. He sits on the back of my rocker and preens away. Funny because, he normally will not let me touch him but he feels he can touch me just any old time.

Hi KateLyn, there in loads of information in the different rooms. Great reading. Welcome to the Grey family!

Great advice Deke. I re-homed a 1 1/2 year old BF zon who was owned by a male and whose wife put him outside when the husband because ill. When winter came the wife sold Louie to me. Louie is very leery of females so he and I have been working on a trust relationship for awhile. Louie is now 5 and follows me from room to room. I can get him in his cage just by asking. He lets me get close but loves to bite although not hard at least with me. He is a sweetheart and tries very hard to please me; just no touching. I love him to death. Louie is fun loving and loves to play, beat up his toys, ring his bells and destroy his wooden toys. I love his laughing eyes. He is the watch bird of my flock, he will not go into his cage until my greys are in first. He is the last to come get a treat. He is my sweetheart and guardian. Love, patience and understanding is the formula if you want to successfully give a neglected parrot a new forever home. Louie sets the pace, and I am good with that.

Good bye Bentley I know you will be watching over Dan and Kim always.

Hi Deke and Gracie. Love those TAGs. Thank you for giving Gracie a loving forever home. Looking forward to learning more about the two of you. Welcome to the Grey family.

This is normal. I have a TAG (4 1/2) and a CAG (2 1/2) and live alone. My TAG is fearless and has chosen a few people she likes and goes to readily. My CAG screams, fluffs up and growls at everyone but me. Frankly, I don't encourage people to get close to my greys. I let them/greys choose whom they wish to like and hang with. I find that animals are a very good judge of character. Many times greys select only one member of the family to be with and others just have to hope that one day they will be one of the chosen ones too. My greys are both flighted so they pretty well have the run of my home and if they don't want to be included when people are over, they just go back to their bird-room. Many times they/greys will just sit on ceiling perches or boings and watch the human interaction.

You will all be happy to know that, Cappy has been singing up a storm today and is right as rain. As for the can of air, I purchased it because my older grandson was going to use it to clean the dust out my computer but just redid the whole thing instead and the can of air just sat on my file cabinet unused..... until JJ used it that is. JJ was very afraid for Cappy and sit quietly petting Cappy the whole time Cappy was recuperating. We did talk and without scaring him and I believe he understands what could have happened and will be much more careful about touching things without asking. I am just grateful that I remembered reading that birds exhale about all the air in their lungs at each breath and then inhale new fresh oxygen. If I had not read this fact, I would never have thought to place my sweet canary right in front of my portable fan and just letting him breathe. It took a bit but he is now active and singing again and I am just thankful.

Hi Iffkica, welcome to you and Puki! Puki is still getting use to her new home and exploring and learning about her new life. As for playing with toys, my Ana Grey never plays with toys but my CAG, Sterling Gris and my Zon, Louie, love toys. Personal preference I guess.

You have all had a chance to meet my Red Factor Male Canary, Captain Caruso. Well yesterday he was exposed to Dust-Off, the original Compressed Gas duster. But I should start from the beginning..... Every other weekend I watch my 3-year-old grandson. JJ is a very active and inquisitive young man who frankly is into everything. Anyhow, I was typing away on the computer in my office where Cappy, the canary, lives. JJ was watching Cappy fly around the room and into my plant jungle or so I thought. Sudden I hear frantic chirping and smell a strong gaseous odor. JJ is saying quietly "birdie down", I say "what" and JJ repeats louder "birdie down". I ask where and JJ points to the foot of my office chair. Cappy is lying with his eyes closed at the foot of my chair. I scoop up my poor limp canary turn on the room fan, get JJ and leave the room and close the door. In the hall, I turn on the large ceiling exhaust fan, turn on the fan in the Grey Room and close the door. On the way to the living room I turn on the bathroom fans and kitchen stove fan and grab a kitchen towel and quickly sit down in front of the small fan I keep by my TV chair and hold my sweet canary in the cool air praying he will open his eyes and not be the limp thing I now hold in my shaking hands. I know I have lost my little friend and my mind is filled with fear for my three parrots now closed in the room across from my deadly office. What do I do, I cannot abandon my friend who is dying in my arms so I hold him and pray. Cappy opens his eyes and I pray harder and place him on the footstool in front of my fan so that he can take full advantage of the fresh cool air and quickly go to make sure my parrots are all safe. Gratefully there is no odor in the hall or in my greys' room, I was able to keep it all in my office. Thank the Lord. I let the parrots out and they fly to the living room. I watch them closely because Ana Grey hates small birds and will stalk them (hence, Cappy lives in the office not the bird room) but Ana Grey stays away from my TV chair where she usually sits with me. I guess she knows that Cappy is ill and not to be bothered. I watch my parrots closely and they are all fine in fact they fly back to their bird room so I know it is free of odor. Cappy is up from his reclining position with his back to the fan so he can still receive cool air but he is now standing with his eyes open and watching me. JJ has been watching Cappy very quietly and petting his back. I have not said anything yet to my grandson but he knows spraying Cappy has made him very sick. After cleaning Cappy's cage and airing out my office and getting rid of the dreadful compressed gas, I go into the living room and can't find Cappy. After a frantic look-around I find him sitting in the window enjoying the view. It's been over 24 hours since this mishap and Cappy is fine and flying in my office was I type. I am just grateful that I had the presence of mind to keep Cappy in front of a fan instead of just assuming he was lost forever. Thank you God. I am writing this so you will all know that accidents can happen anytime and that in case your grey/parrot is exposed to deadly odors or smells do not assume all is lost. Turn on that fan or somehow get your parrot to flowing fresh air so that he/she has a chance to breathe clean fresh air and hopefully live.

Hi Sohn and Tequila. Looking forward to hearing more about the two of you! Welcome to the Grey family!

For my parrots they enjoy praise, tickles and scratches but when they are being stubborn, I do raise my voice and my body languages changes so that they know they had better buck-up and come around.

Have a great day Oliver!

Great advice from Dan. When I first brought my 5 month of CAG home, the breeders gave me formula feeding lessons and a good supply of formula the young CAG had been weaned on. Although he ate other foods voraciously, the breeders wanted to make sure he did not, because of the "big" change in environment and missing other siblings, revert back to wanting formula. I fed formula before bedtime for a couple of days until he would just fly away because he felt he was now in the big world.

I have a female TAG (4 1/2) and an male CAG ( almost 3). They have separate cages and do not interact except for minor battles in which one or the other will back off. They are not companions in any form. The only way to find out is like Dave 007 said, you have to let them out together and watch them closely to see if they get along.

Thanks Guys and I didn't even get into the cage cleaning and bathing and.......!

Dan's right. You should talk to Jellybean and let him know what is happening. Believe me, my greys and zon can sense my feelings and thoughts by my body language, voice and actions. Talk to your grey, he truly does understand because greys are very observant and intuitive.