EnidColeslaw
09-07-2007, 12:46 AM
I am so glad i found these forums! Even after carefully researching and selecting my female pacific parrotlet, Astrid, i had quite a case of "fretful mother" syndrome and was terrified that I'd be a bad parrotlet owner. I thought it is about time Astrid and I debuted.
Astrid Penelope Coleslaw
more commonly known as - bird, bee, "little bee"
hatched - July 06
adopted - January 07
likes - dried figs, nesting in hair, her home-made fleece "octopus", rattling her cage to wake me up every morning, car rides, head skritches, helpfully "preening" those pesky freckles off one's neck (ouch), her new perch, trying to poop in my keyboard, exploring your dinner plate -- with her feet
hates - cell phones!!! (especially the flip kind), any other large electronic object, being forced to eat pellets
My parrotlet experience has been a dream! I'd been toying about getting a pet after quitting my night job and deciding to go back to school. Since I finally had the time and was afraid of being bored and lonely at home, a parrotlet seemed to be a perfect fit for my lifestyle and (roomate-shared) home.
I picked Astrid out from about 7 other nearly idenitcal brothers and sisters because her personality seemed the most curious AND she was the only one NOT to break the skin on my hand with an angry chomp when removed from her cage. After a mutually traumatizing BART ride back over the bay Astrid settled into her cage, charmed my skeptical roomates in about five minutes and in days learned her way around her territory, how to step up and the wonders of a tangly ponytail.
Perhaps she's just special (or maybe I am just more familiar with my crotchety childhood cockatiels) but my parrotlet is so much easier than i expected to take care of! She is usually quiet, doesn't chew on anything she isn't supposed to, adorable, calm, friendly, clean, entertaining, and portable. As she grows she's beginning to develop quite a personality.
Thats all for now! a picture of her first day home. She loathes cameras and cell phones but the built in camera on my mac has worked pretty well thus far.
Astrid Penelope Coleslaw
more commonly known as - bird, bee, "little bee"
hatched - July 06
adopted - January 07
likes - dried figs, nesting in hair, her home-made fleece "octopus", rattling her cage to wake me up every morning, car rides, head skritches, helpfully "preening" those pesky freckles off one's neck (ouch), her new perch, trying to poop in my keyboard, exploring your dinner plate -- with her feet
hates - cell phones!!! (especially the flip kind), any other large electronic object, being forced to eat pellets
My parrotlet experience has been a dream! I'd been toying about getting a pet after quitting my night job and deciding to go back to school. Since I finally had the time and was afraid of being bored and lonely at home, a parrotlet seemed to be a perfect fit for my lifestyle and (roomate-shared) home.
I picked Astrid out from about 7 other nearly idenitcal brothers and sisters because her personality seemed the most curious AND she was the only one NOT to break the skin on my hand with an angry chomp when removed from her cage. After a mutually traumatizing BART ride back over the bay Astrid settled into her cage, charmed my skeptical roomates in about five minutes and in days learned her way around her territory, how to step up and the wonders of a tangly ponytail.
Perhaps she's just special (or maybe I am just more familiar with my crotchety childhood cockatiels) but my parrotlet is so much easier than i expected to take care of! She is usually quiet, doesn't chew on anything she isn't supposed to, adorable, calm, friendly, clean, entertaining, and portable. As she grows she's beginning to develop quite a personality.
Thats all for now! a picture of her first day home. She loathes cameras and cell phones but the built in camera on my mac has worked pretty well thus far.