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How about a pic of Neboo? I hope its just a phase.

I love the pink face. Congratulations on your new baby.

Thanks for the pics, congrats on your bird.

good to know. . .

Well what can you say? Gilberts brightening up everyones day! most greys have that effect on people! Thanks for the update, hope all is well

your right carlsjr but morana is just a bit "passionate" about the argument. i hope that we can agree to disagree. if we cant then the argument is getting old already.

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Glad you found our forum. congratulations on your new baby! read read read that this place is full of greyt advice

Great set up in your office!

look in the diy section they have good instructions there. the new avatar looks great w/ Bravo.

Thank you all for the replys, I definatly see both sides of the point, and am glad that this thread hasnt "caused chaos" and the forum members are respectably informing each other of personal situations. and excellent advice... I appreciate all of you.

It can work Tule can be his friend too!!! at least bf is considering giving it a shot which is great news!

I like it alot!

Take her to your avian vet or to where you get her clipped so they can fix that... I Love Rubys name!

Oh good. I read in a previous post that you like clarifications for your english and grammer- so i tried to help you understand.

Great story! and I do the fake flying thing too, in my grey book it says that this form of excersize is very important at least once a day... How old is your bird now? Im glad were getting some positive feedback. Thanks for your reply.

the language is lovely and I've never heard it. I must google.

Wow a couple hundred feet! That must've been scary for you, thank goodness that you were able to catch up to him. *Im sorry about his final escape * I agree with you about peace of mind. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Be careful with the ferret.

Nice thinking, great suggestion!

Thanks for your opinion Morana, but I assure you, my fids are safe with me, as Im sure Zak is safe with you. No, reading that anybody lost a clipped bird still wouldn't mean it is impossible or that it won't happen to you the very next day. It doesnt matter to me if I ever hear or read of a clipped bird, as this news will certainly not stop me from doing what needs to be done to my birds from my personal situation/perspective. I honestly hope not - that, as you say, "this thead will cause much chaos", but sometiimes parronts are a tad aggresive when it comes to this serious thread, and I just wanted to read a personal story involving this taboo topic. I didn't mean to "ruffle your feathers". and by they way, ~(The "knock on wood" expression, is just that, an expression Americans use so that no bad luck comes this way)~ =)

For now my fids are clipped, and Im Ok with that. As my friend has suggested, I will look into getting Aristotle a harness asap. And GOD FORBID, that my grey does fly away, I will start a thread that reads, MY CLIPPED BIRD FLEW AWAY. (But that wont happen knock on wood... )

My grey was singing PEEK A BOOOOOOOO to my wife!

Not once have I read, "my clipped grey has flown away" as I have been searching for the thread, all the stories I read are of loving owners who let their fids fly around inside their homes, and something accidentally goes wrong. Someone leaves a door, a window open, a father in law walks in at the exact moment the bird is happily flying toward an exit... etc. Ive had birds for many years, some people may call me cruel to take away the birds abiliy to fly, but I disagree, since I do it for their saftey and my peace of mind. Its my personal experience with previous parrots and with current parrots that IF they do get startled, the flap their wings and glide to the ground. At the aviary which I frequent, the staff has answered my question of a flying clipped bird, saying that they person doing the clipping did a poor job, or left too many flight feathers. I regularly take my fids to get "mani and pedis" so to speak and they hardly never jump off of what theyre perched on, but if they do, they glide to the ground. I wish I had the knowledge that I have now thanks to wonderful members from this great forum, because I loved my first grey a lot and I see a lot of mistakes that I made with her that will never be repeated. When I get a baby grey, it will be a full indoor bird and not clipped until it has mastered flying and hovering, "fledging" I believe, and I pray that by then I will have a larger home so that I may have a "bird room" so all my fids can be flighted. At that time, when my paychecks are fatter, I WILL move so that my dream of having a bird room (and a two car garage) will be realized. Then possibly I wont have to clip my fids, and can experience the joy of having them fly to me when they want to. I have not had that pleasure yet, but look forward to it.