Saturday, February 7, 2009

What to do with Georgia?

This is The bird-



We hate to have to leave her behind.
But she definitely can't come to Africa with us. Sometimes it seems just keeping this bird alive has become a full time job for Ruth and I. The vet tells us that she's 'geriatric'. Although she is only about 34 years old, she has been on a terrible, mainly seed, diet for most of those years and so she has aged prematurely. Birds can live quite a bit longer when fed properly. We didn't find this out until 2 years ago, and we've been trying to coax her to eat dried green pellets and fruit ever since. It seems that we are finally having some success and this month Georgia sprouted a whole bunch of new feathers and bulked up!
Georgia spends most of her time sitting on Ruth's computer preening and squawking. She likes to climb down from the cage and walk around a bit, following us into the kitchen or the bedroom and she loves to hang out on the shower curtain. She is a fanatical spelunker and considers just about any blanket crease a good place to hunker down and make weird tiny squeaking sounds. She's smart enough to go for bike rides and hang onto my glasses but her vocabulary consists of only like 6 words. Whoever says animals don't feel emotions or have memories or can't reason has never lived with a parrot. She's like a tiny little person and she will be really sad when we leave.
Luckily, Ruth's friend Nate is going to take care of Georgia for us. He has 6 smaller birds already and we hope that Georgia will make some new friends.

3 comments:

Unknown February 19, 2009 at 7:19 PM  

this is sad. I will be sad not to have her scream at me and almost bite me every time i try and talk to you.

Molls February 20, 2009 at 6:29 AM  

Awwww...poor Georgia. And poor Ruth and Jack too! Pets are a big responsibility and long-term travel arrangements can be hard, esp with an exotic (and finicky) pet! I will miss Georgia's visits to porch outings.

junglejack February 27, 2009 at 3:38 PM  

Welcome to my blog ladies! Hope that you find it entertaining. I will be sure to have lots of cute pictures of Ruth here for y'all.

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