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Hi there, My name is Dennis Ooijer and I am 22 years old. I have been in love with birds for as long as I remember.

 

I have 2 budgies and 1 cockatiel, the budgies being both 2 years old of age and the cockatiel 1 year old.

 

Recently (past august) I have bought a 'baby' african grey, 6 weeks old, and hand feeded him from there on. He was being attacked (not really, but his brothers were seriously threatening him to do so) by his fellow brothers so the breeder decided to get him out since he was not getting enough food.

 

I have been wanting to buy an african grey for so long, and read so much about them, but I just never found the right opportunity to get one. I even took care of one for 2 3 weeks while a friend went on a vacation to practise and see if this is something for me.

 

Turns out it sure is! And I am loving it right now. He's out and playing almost all day long and he seems so very happy!

 

Here are two short videos of him, one featuring my cockatiel as well, they just love eachother!

 

Him being around 7 weeks old:

 

 

And this one is recorded today, he's around 4 months old now :)

 

 

Anyway, I hope to hang around here a lot :) Please forgive me if my English sucks, it's not my native language :)

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Dexter :D ! Great vids, and so nice that Mickey and Dexter get along so well together. I was about your age when I got my Congo African Grey, Lestat, and can relate very much to your feelings of fascination and wanting. How marvelous that you were able to find Dexter, and as a baby no less. You two will have a long and fantastic life together!

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Hello Dennis and welcome to our family.

Dexter is a handsome fella and it is so endearing to see him get along with Mickey, not so in my household for my fids have to stay a little distance from one another but when my grey is off her cage my tiel is likely to go over to see what she can scrounge from what she has left.

I am glad to hear you finally got to realize your dream of having one of these awesome creatures share your life with you, it will never be the same but it will be much more rewarding than you could ever imagine.

Thanks so much for sharing a couple of videos in your intro post as we usually have to ask for pictures and keep sharing them if you like for we never tire of looking at other's birds.

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Thanks for these kind words :) I sure am happy Mickey and Dexter get along so well! They really seem in love sometimes, I even caught Dexter 'vomitting' (don't know the exact English words ^^) for Mickey so that he could have some of his food! He ate it out of his beak! Mickey does the same thing to me once in a while, it's their amazing yet disgusting way of saying I love you! :)

 

I sure will be uploading more videos as Dexter progresses learning his tricks now :) Or maybe even the smallest things, every day is fun having him around :)

 

I made a small party hat for him, which he really seems to like, and he looks so cute wearing it! I am trying to get a photo in here :)

 

This is the link: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/32/c9of.jpg/

 

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