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Judy, Without any doubt, Zoey will remember you and will love to be back with you. I had to leave my Tinkerbell in Taiwan. I flew back just to be with her every year since I left her. You can read those episodes , Tinkerbell Revisited and Tinkerbell Interlude, and you can decide for yourself if Tink remembered me. That will be the same with you and Zoey too. Shanlung http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

Fairy, There should not be any kind of timetable in your mind. There is no race. Fixing even a kind of time frame in your mind will be contraproductive. You might get nervous and frustrated if your self imposed dateline(s) neared. As greys are empaths, your feelings will be felt by them making them more nervous than they are. Your relationship with him will suffer. Just be happy with him, treating him/her with the respect and dignity that you give to fellow sentients. You gain trust when you give trust. My own path had been so accidental and full of quirks . I made nightmarish mistakes. I cannot and should not use that path I taken as a path for even myself , and less of all, advice as a path you should faithfully take. Such as repeat of the nightmare when I was dragged screaming into the Overnighter's Club. I wish that not on my worse enemy, and last of all , you. You and your bird are uniquely the two of you. CAG lives to 70-80 years, in effect, the rest of your lives. Timetable will be meaningless when you both have the rest of eternality ahead of you. Perhaps you look at a nutshell of how I did that with Tinkerbell. And see where I had done wrong and learn from that. 'Harness for flighted parrots - To Nick and folks' http://shanlung.livejournal.com/8284.html Then you might have some basis to decide what your path should be. Do let me know Warmest regards Shanlung<br><br>Post edited by: shanlung, at: 2007/02/02 12:40

Sardar, All birds can be trained. Even more important, you must allow them to train you too as it is a two way process to better understanding. Yingshiong is an old whiterumped shama when he came to me. He was caught from the wild (sadly). Shamas are so shy that they will not even eat if you look at them and are classified as aviary bird. I thought differently thinking the info on them are self fullfilling prophecies. Within a month, Yingshiong flew to me and landed on me. Greys are timid, but shamas might well be 20 times more timid. It is not just patience that you need to train and bond with your bird. There are certain technigues and mindset that you need too. Read Part 2 Tinkerbell Legacy for the road map and procedures of training in URL in my signature. ShanLung each refresh of URL below show more photos http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9

FairY, When you are in Tinkerbell webpage, clicking on any of those photos will bring you the enlarged version. Greys are not the best candidates to be taken outdoors. They are more inclined to 'spook' than others. Their hearing and their eyesight are so superior to ours that its not likely that we know the cause of their spooking. Perhaps a couple of old letters I wrote on this can shed more light. Look into "Playing music to ducks" in http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2005/08/ See 'Spooking zones' http://shanlung.livejournal.com/9605.html Taking a parrot outdoors to fly, on harness or not in harness, is a serious undertaking that you must be clear minded about. An immense amount of training and bonding and understanding can only be the foundation of that. Shanlung

Hi friends, For those who do not know of Tinkerbell or me, first take a look at these collection of photographs. Each refresh of URL below will show more photos taken at random http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9'>http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9 A love story of me and my Tinkerbell, a free flying Congo African Grey parrot CAG , as we roamed about the mountains and forests and cities of Taiwan. She loves to go riding with me on the motorbike as she sit on a perch on the handle bar. Full details of that and more are in that webpage, together with URLs to the relevant folders of hundreds of photos. Without those photos, what I wrote will never be believed You can live with a flying parrot at home. That is the legacy that Tinkerbell will like you to have ShanLung each refresh of URL below show more photos http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9