Time with Cricket

[Ray P]

This weekend I spent a lot of extra time with Cricket.

The last 6 weeks have been very busy and it cut into a lot of our special time together, so I was trying to make it up to her. She loved it and coddled and clung to me as much as she could.

My friends do not understand the affection that a parrot can have to a human, and even when they see it, they don`t believe it. Their loss.

We can sit together or she can be on my shoulder or be standing on the table looking at each other and we both seam to have a fleeing of being at ease.

They can miss you as much as you miss them and the time can be made up.

Here is to all our parrots, all species and all us Odd Balls that love them.

[SRSeedBurners]

True dat! I love how Greycie wants to see me every time I come through the door in the evenings. Our little Toby (Caique) is even the same way. He will waddle, not hopping yet and he was clipped, across the floor to ask to be picked up. They're so cute. I think about them all day long. We plan our days around them. My wife acts like they're her children and she wasn't even a bird person till I begged to get a Grey. The weirdest thing I do is probably telling Greycie little bedtime stories at night, in the dark, before putting her up. She has a hard time going to bed and needs some extra bedtime coddling.

[JeffNOK]

Ray, I'm glad you got to spend some quality one on one time with Cricket. Good for the soul I am sure!

[danmcq]

What a beautiful description of your homecoming welcome. Sounds wonderful.

[Luvparrots]

Glad that your travelling is over and you are now home with family and Cricket.

[katana600]

Good to have you home again Ray. I think the oddballs are the ones who have not learned the exquisite wonder that is living with a parrot. They are the ones who might say... once... "It's just a bird." We get it, they are missing something epic.

[judygram]

I bet Cricket just ate it up when you spent extra time with her, she was purring "Daddy is home, daddy is home"