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- Jessica
I realized I never made a formal introduction. I'm Jessica and our family has recently adopted a 2-3 year old (we aren't 100% sure) male hybrid conure, either a Jenday/Nanday mix or a Sun/Nanday mix, the jury is still out, but since his previous owner called him a Jenday I'm going with Jenday/Nanday mix. The woman we adopted him from could not care for him any longer due to medical issues and felt he wasn't getting enough attention. His name is Sunny, which we were prepared to change if he didn't respond to it, but since he does we decided to keep it (we decided that it was short for Sundance, just to make it slightly less generic). Since we've brought him home last night he's glommed onto us -- we lucked out, he's very affectionate and sweet and obviously is ready for some love. I was prepared to have to work with him a bit to get him used to us but he seems very happy to be here and is only nippy when startled. He does seem a bit spooked by my husband, and I think he's possibly not been around men much before, but we'll work on that.
We lost our pineapple GCC, Zym, tragically a few weeks ago. We had not planned on getting another bird for a few months yet, since the pain of losing Zym was still very raw, but this opportunity presented itself and when we visited with Sunny, we just knew we needed to give him a home. Adopting a bird instead of buying a new baby makes me feel better about getting a new bird relatively quickly. I like to think that Zym would have approved of us taking Sunny home. Our house was awfully quiet without a bird around. Zym was primarily my 10 year old daughter's bird -- the cage was in her room and she worked with him the most (with my guidance), but the whole family adored him. My husband, who has never been a huge animal person at all, cried about Zym for weeks. When we got home with Sunny he went out to Zym's grave and talked to him and asked for his blessing in bringing Sunny home. I really hope Sunny will warm up to him too in time.
I'm looking forward to hanging around and learning from all of the experienced bird owners here. Although our family had cockatiels when I was a child, and I had some finches, Zym was the first bird I'd had as an adult. I don't consider myself really an experienced bird-mom so I have a lot to learn!
This is Sunny with my daughter Annika
And this is Annika with the late Zym.
We lost our pineapple GCC, Zym, tragically a few weeks ago. We had not planned on getting another bird for a few months yet, since the pain of losing Zym was still very raw, but this opportunity presented itself and when we visited with Sunny, we just knew we needed to give him a home. Adopting a bird instead of buying a new baby makes me feel better about getting a new bird relatively quickly. I like to think that Zym would have approved of us taking Sunny home. Our house was awfully quiet without a bird around. Zym was primarily my 10 year old daughter's bird -- the cage was in her room and she worked with him the most (with my guidance), but the whole family adored him. My husband, who has never been a huge animal person at all, cried about Zym for weeks. When we got home with Sunny he went out to Zym's grave and talked to him and asked for his blessing in bringing Sunny home. I really hope Sunny will warm up to him too in time.
I'm looking forward to hanging around and learning from all of the experienced bird owners here. Although our family had cockatiels when I was a child, and I had some finches, Zym was the first bird I'd had as an adult. I don't consider myself really an experienced bird-mom so I have a lot to learn!
This is Sunny with my daughter Annika
And this is Annika with the late Zym.
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