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This was Bud. She was a double yellow headed Amazon. She
was a real character! Everyone who ever met her just loved her. In the
summer people would drive by and holler to her. Not to us...just to her!
If course, she would holler right back with "Hey! Whatcha doin'?", or
just a very loud "HELLO!"...at the top of her lungs.
Her previous owners decided they just didn't have time for her any more. From the
condition of her cage, it appeared they "didn't have time" for quite a
while! The cage wasn't even worth trying to clean. The whole thing could
have been a industrial waste site. It's amazing Bud was as healthy as
she was living in those conditions. We moved her into a larger cage,
gave her time to adjust, and watched her blossom, and BOY, did she ever!
She loved car rides (She would drive.), hanging out on
the deck in the summer, long steamy showers, singing opera, and
occasionally going to the nursing home to entertain my Grandmother and
all the other elderly people there. She also had a passion for ceiling
fans. If you turned the fan on, she would turn her head upside down to
look at it, move her head in a circle in the same direction the fan was
moving in and say, "Wee, wee, wee" while watching it turn.
Bud was a living doll. Sadly, we lost her to a freak
accident one night. She liked those rope perches similar to the stuff
the dog's rope bones are made out of and she slept on one of them every
night. If you have birds, you know that the way you connect those to the
bars of the cage is by the plastic end caps that screw on. Those perches
are glued to the inside of those end caps. Bud was sleeping, the perch
came loose from it's end cap, and in the sudden, unexpected fall, she
had no time to spread her wings and save herself. Her head hit the
wooden perch below that one and
snapped her neck. She is still sorely missed. |
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Bud
