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I wish I could keep her too and the reality of it is that me trying to work it out has just made her worse. Its not that I can do less housework, its the fact that I am out of town two weeks at a time and sometimes work 10-20 hours a day. I have tried and its just not enough for her. I am just not home and when I am she screams and is extremely loud just begging for my attention. She is vey smart and very spiteful and I know shes not happy. Its not fair to her to spend so much time alone or part of the time with a pet sitter that she doesnt trust.

Thank you Sarasota. It is hard. There might have been a change in staff but I do know that they still charge someone $75 just to apply with their organization and they also charge a "tour" fee for you to come to the facility to see their birds. I personally have a problem with that. I dont want to in any way bash anyone and I know they take in a lot of birds that other wont but I dont really want to work with them. They do great work with birds so I am grateful they are around just dont agree with some of the operations!!! Im not in a hurry to get her placed in a new home so I can take my time with finding her a perfect home. In the mean time, I hope you guys dont mind me sticking around!

This is a great example of what I am getting as prospects UGH I have 13 pet birds and 12 pair if breaders. So if I cant tame her she would get a friend. Have u dna checked her? I would much rather turn this lady in than let her touch my bird!

Thank you. I hope so too I sit here crying because it breaks my heart but the reason I am sitting here crying is also so she will stop screaming while I am trying to mop the floors on the other side of the house She is begging for more attention and I wish I could give it to her. I try to take her in the other room but she doesnt want to come out of her cage and her cage is too big to move around the house. I have had so many inquiries on her but they want her because she is a grey and they dont care to know what she is like just that they want her. Its so frustrating but I hope I can watch her thrive in a new setting that can give her more than I can. I really hope that I can find someone here that can help us

Thank you for your response. The Gabriel Foundation is one of the ones I have heard terrible things about. They also want outrageous fees for their birds I looked into them before I got Darby and was treated terrible and when I did some research on the foundation and talked to parrot folks in the are I found bad things. Darby isnt going to need a sanctuary setting, just someone to work with her because I know she can get back to the point that I had her at a few years ago.

Thank you! What do you mean by "above board contacts"?

Hi, I have posted in the rescue portion of this site but I wanted to introduce myself and my CAG Darby. I can no longer provide for her in the way she needs therefore I am looking to find a knowledgable home that would be able to handle her and get her back to the point where she is happy and will be able to be handled again. Thank you and I hope to get some help from the folks in here in finding her a new home

I am new to this forum and turned here to hopefully find a new home for my Congo African Grey Darby. After a lot of painful thoughts I have come to the conclusion that I need to rehome my grey due to the fact that I have had some life changes and she has started to turn against me. I have a 12 or 13 year old grey that I got off of Craigslist about 5 years ago. I went to look at her and the situation she was in was disgusting and I knew I couldnt leave her there. I took her with me even though I knew she was not able to be handled. At the time I was in a family situation so someone was home with her all the time. She thrived and I was able to get her to where I could handle her and do a few tricks with her. She has a great vocabulary and she is super smart. After I got her I decided to DNA sex her and she actually DNA tested to be a male but she has always known herself as a she so I left it that way. When I first went to pick her up, her owner handnt handled her in years due to an allergy. The ladies husband was the one that dealt with the birds would use a stick to get her out of the cage and Darby is now terrified of sticks (brooms, mops and other such objects). When he went near her, she started screaming this terrifying scared scream. I still hear that when I come near her cage with large objects. It breaks my heart. Anyway, as I said, I was able to rehabilitate her to a point where I could handle her and she became somewhat calm. She loved me and would give me kisses but would never repeat anything I would say. She always picked up what my partner said but yet she would scare the crap out of my partner daily!!! She is very ornery but hilarious and is a great talker. She will study people and their words and then one day will come out with a 5 or 6 word sentence! She will do tricks and learn behaviors when worked with. She does some crazy sounds and likes to interact with her humans. Well my family ended up breaking up and I had to leave her for a few months with my ex while I found a new place for us to live. She never recovered and she has become quite violent with me out of spite. Now that I am alone, I work constantly and she is home alone way too much and more than a grey needs to be. She is now at the point that she screams for me to come back into the room when I go to another part of the house. I can no longer handle her as she would rather try and intimidate me then laugh at me. She throws things at me and does things just to make me mad. She is testing me as all greys do and she is winning It breaks my heart but I have to do what is fair to her. She wants someone to spend time with her and I cant do it because of my job. She needs a stable home where someone/a family can work with her and she can trust her owner again. She needs a life that I can no longer provide her. There are several rescues here in my area (Colorado Springs) but they all want so much money for their birds and I am very leery as I have not heard good things about either of them. I am confident that I can weed through people (as I have already been doing) that want to adopt her but I am just not coming across the right people. I am hoping that coming here, I can find someone who understands that she is not a fun bird right now but she can be if she is placed in a home who has understanding, knowledge and patience for an ornery Grey.