Syb
Moving in
- Joined
- 3/22/23
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- Real Name
- Sybil
Hello everybody
It’s been a while since I’ve scrolled through this forum. I believe the last time I was here was 10 years ago when I was 9 and had some budgies. I believe I never made an account but just read through posts and etc. I do love all birds but I always had a particular fondness to cockatiels, cockatoos and conures ever since I was old enough to look at the pictures of animal encyclopaedias (clearly I love the letter C).
Anyway, a little bit about me, I’m 19, I’m an aspiring vet (hoping to get into vet school next year), I don’t have any birds atm and I don’t intend to get any till far in the future when I’m stable and have my own place. I own a cat who likes to use my arm as a chew toy but I love him all the same. I love all animals and I hope to become an exotic vet in the future where I can work with rescuing and rehabilitation and wild animals as well as more “exotic” pets including our feathery friends. I have such a huge wishlist of pets I’d like but my cat atm is more than enough and if I were to get any more pets, I’d want to make sure they have the best quality of life.
Growing up my family had many impulse pets. I call them impulse pets because for most, they were very impulsive purchases mainly as gifts. My old budgies were also an impulse purchase from my dad and I hate to admit that they had far from a quality of life but there’s only so much 9 year old me understood and could do.
I’m also particularly interested in animal nutrition and replicating pet diets to those that they would eat in the wild. Thus I’m not very enthusiastic about commercial foods and the pet food industry (conflicting for an aspiring vet I know). And so for my own cat, I feed him a raw diet that mimics what he would eat in the wild and that has made me more interested in how commercial diets for other animals differ to how their diets would be in the wild as well.
Anyway, that’s a long introduction from me. I know I don’t even have a bird yet but I hope to make sure to spend my time researching and learning more about birds before even considering bringing one home. So who knows, give it maybe 5 years or more and maybe I’ll be able to make a “welcome to the family” post. I have already been daydreaming about the perfect bird room and incorporating my hypothetical pets in my imagined routines haha. That’s all from me, hope to get to know y’all well
It’s been a while since I’ve scrolled through this forum. I believe the last time I was here was 10 years ago when I was 9 and had some budgies. I believe I never made an account but just read through posts and etc. I do love all birds but I always had a particular fondness to cockatiels, cockatoos and conures ever since I was old enough to look at the pictures of animal encyclopaedias (clearly I love the letter C).
Anyway, a little bit about me, I’m 19, I’m an aspiring vet (hoping to get into vet school next year), I don’t have any birds atm and I don’t intend to get any till far in the future when I’m stable and have my own place. I own a cat who likes to use my arm as a chew toy but I love him all the same. I love all animals and I hope to become an exotic vet in the future where I can work with rescuing and rehabilitation and wild animals as well as more “exotic” pets including our feathery friends. I have such a huge wishlist of pets I’d like but my cat atm is more than enough and if I were to get any more pets, I’d want to make sure they have the best quality of life.
Growing up my family had many impulse pets. I call them impulse pets because for most, they were very impulsive purchases mainly as gifts. My old budgies were also an impulse purchase from my dad and I hate to admit that they had far from a quality of life but there’s only so much 9 year old me understood and could do.
I’m also particularly interested in animal nutrition and replicating pet diets to those that they would eat in the wild. Thus I’m not very enthusiastic about commercial foods and the pet food industry (conflicting for an aspiring vet I know). And so for my own cat, I feed him a raw diet that mimics what he would eat in the wild and that has made me more interested in how commercial diets for other animals differ to how their diets would be in the wild as well.
Anyway, that’s a long introduction from me. I know I don’t even have a bird yet but I hope to make sure to spend my time researching and learning more about birds before even considering bringing one home. So who knows, give it maybe 5 years or more and maybe I’ll be able to make a “welcome to the family” post. I have already been daydreaming about the perfect bird room and incorporating my hypothetical pets in my imagined routines haha. That’s all from me, hope to get to know y’all well