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Parrot Rescue Diaries

Syd Settling In!

March 5th, 2011
Syd Settling In!

Syd has been with us now for nearly 2 weeks and is starting to chatter quite a lot, some of the things we can make out are ‘Night’ even at noon in the day, ‘What you doing?’, ‘Whats that’, ‘ Bye’.

She still not very keen on her fresh fruit and vegetables but i am working on that! i am still working on her to finish a bowl of my mash mix, she looks at it and walks off! I know it isn’t that bad as Mai our Grey loves it! She really enjoys a bit of wholemeal pasta which you can see below -

She loves her swing she came with and sits on it most of the time when she is in her cage she looks so cute on it, she loves Cashew nuts and is getting much more comfy with me stroking her and tickling her i can stroke her all over, still not to keen on stepping up but we will get there!

Here is Syd on her swing!


No Cost Fundraising!

March 4th, 2011
No Cost Fundraising!

Have you heard about easyfundraising yet? It’s the easiest way to help raise money for African Grey Rescue Fund! If you already shop online with retailers such as Amazon, M&S, Argos, John Lewis, Comet, Vodafone, eBay, Boden and Play.com, then we need you to sign up for free to raise money while you shop!

So how does it work?

You shop directly with the retailer as you would normally, but if you sign up to http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/agrf for free and use the links on the easyfundraising site to take you to the retailer, then a percentage of whatever you spend comes directly to us at no extra cost to yourself.

How much can you raise?

Spend £100 with M&S online or Amazon and you raise £2.50 for us. £100 with WH Smith puts £2.00 in our pocket and so on. There’s over 2,000 retailers on their site, and some of the donations can be as much as 15% of your purchase.

Save money too!

easyfundraising is FREE to use plus you’ll get access to hundreds of exclusive discounts and voucher codes, so not only will you be helping us, you’ll be saving money yourself.

Sign up at http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/agrf and start making a difference…simply by shopping.

Thanks!


Easy Fund Raising For Free!!

March 2nd, 2011
Easy Fund Raising For Free!!

We have joined Easyfundraising site to raise funds for the African Grey Rescue Fund. It doesn’t cost you a penny, if you shop online just go through this site, you need to register the first time you use it, http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/agrf then whenever you shop online, just click on their link first and then go through to the shop that you want. There are hundreds of shops and services available, including Amazon, Ebay, Argos and a load of insurers, pet shops as well. Please help us by signing up to this brilliant site, it’s cash for free!


Lady And Her New Toys!

February 23rd, 2011
Lady And Her New Toys!

Last week, I decided that it was time for the flock to have some more new toys, so £120 later………….. New toys were on the way!!

Saturday was the day to strip down the cages and tree, scrub them sparkly clean and put the new toys in!!
Now, as I have explained previously Lady is extremely frightened of new things, so on Saturday morning I took the toys out of the box and laid them out on the back of the sofa, for the 3 birds to have a good nose at. Lady was quite curious, so……………………

I made a judgment call…………..

Lady was going to have new toys in her cage by the end of the day!!!!!

It took 3 weeks for Lady to accept the toys that I got her for Christmas!!!!
I was prepared for a challenge!!!

In one of my previous posts, I explained that my main goal for Lady, was not to stop the plucking, but to encourage her to play with her toys, or any toys!!

Well, Lady had chewed through all of her Christmas toys, and desperately needed some more! :)

My gut instinct took over, and it felt right to put the new toys in Lady’s cage, mainly because of her reaction when the toys were laid out in front of her.

I always leave Lady on her play top whenever I clean or do anything with her cage, so Lady watched me select the toys I thought she would enjoy the most, then watched me place them around her cage. She actually climbs down to see exactly what I am doing.

Lady’s current cage is quite small, and because she is frightened of new things, I decided to place the new toys in each of the corners, then some above the main place she likes to spend the most time when in her cage. So, toys in place, then after a few hours it was birdie bed time! I thought this was going to go one of two ways…….

1, She was going to freak out and have a hissy fit!
2, She would be nervous and weary but would settle after a few days!

I got neither!!!!!!!!!!!

She was totally calm, a little cautious, but after having a good look round to see where everything was, she was totally relaxed!!!!!

RESULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

One very proud parrot mummy!!!!! :)

Here are some photos of Lady’s new toys :)


New Rescue – Meet Syd The Sweet Timneh

February 21st, 2011
New Rescue - Meet Syd The Sweet Timneh

Well it was a very busy day on Sunday we was off to go and collect a new rehome, she was a little Timneh called Syd!

We set off and I went with Ricks choice of directions to go straight through London!! I was a little concerned about this as learning from experience when we went to collect Roxy last year it turned out to be the journey from hell, but I thought I would give him the benefit of the doubt after all men like to think they are always right!!

As we traveled down further on the A10 it was clear that we had made the wrong choice and all was not good, I kept thinking ” I told you so” but didn’t dare to say this :)

As you can see below I was very bored and started to take some photos of the backed up traffic and also random things we passed on the way…

Traffic….Traffic….Traffic….

We even went over London Bridge!!

And could see Tower Bridge in the distance.. this was turning into a tour!!

And we passed the Shard which is being built week by week!

A random Soup seller .. Shaky….Shaky

We was following a car that had a numberplate that would suit our moderator Pat…

By this time a good few hours had passed and we was only about half way for a journey that should have taken about a hour and a half I was getting very fed up and moody and shouting at Rick lots! Well that that’s what a marriage is about isn’t it? It took so long that even our little boy fell asleep and our girl was lost in the world of Mario!

After about another half hour and a bit and having a few giggles at some of the amazing things and people we passed we arrived at John’s and we was welcomed in and offered a nice warm cup of tea as I think he could see we had, had the journey from hell! The children made themselves at home and we had a chat about Syd and met her and discussed her likes and dislikes, she doesn’t like to step up onto hands at all and seems to favour males, she was out when we got there but quickly went away as we were strangers to her, we gathered all of her bits together while Rick and John took her cage to bits so we could get it easily into the car.

After a nice rest and toilet break for us (about 3 times for the kids) we set off with Syd who spent the whole way home on my lap in the carrier watching the traffic, which she really seemed to enjoy as she was whistling every now and then, we was making friends on the way home which again took ages as we went back through London a little aiming to hit the M25.

By the time we got home it was really late so we thought it was best to get Syd settled as soon as possible and we put her into our spare cage which she seemed to enjoy.

Here are a few photos of her, she was letting me stroke her lots and really enjoyed me tickling her head and stroking her down her back, I did try to get her to step on my hand but she really isn’t keen on that so that is something we will work on after she has been here for a week or so and settled right in.

Stretching the wings now we are back!

Enjoying a nice head scratch!

I will update the blog again in a few days once she has settled in and let you all know how she is doing, she seems fine and is a gorgeous little lady, big thanks to John her owner for the tea and lovely welcome, and also for putting your trust into the AGPC Rescue taking Syd in to get her a loving forever home, I have no doubt that you will be following this blog for a long time to come as we could tell you loved Syd dearly and you just wanted what was best for her.


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