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| Sweet Pea is an Indian Ring Neck |
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| (Age Unknown) |
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| We were on our way to our Nephew's birthday party
and found we were several hours early. Traffic was kind
to us so we stopped at a local convenience store and
picked up a copy of the local area newspaper. |
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| We were sitting in the car, Dee was reading
the paper and came across an add for a Sun Conure and an
Indian Ring Neck. We had Max in the car with us,
(our personal Sun Conure).
He usually travels with us wherever we go. |
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| We decided to call and see if we could see the birds
but had no intention of buying either of them, we just
wanted to kill some time. We pull
up to this home and the owner opens the door with a
beautiful Sun Conure on his shoulder and he invites us
in. Dee's first reaction is to put her finger out to say
hello to the Sun Conure. |
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| OUCH.. Yea, she got bit... It
was not the first time she had been bitten and it will
not be the last. |
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| We were just appalled at what
we saw. The first thing we noticed was that all the mini
blinds were chewed up and falling apart. We did not put
"two and two" together at first. We just thought to
ourselves "they need new blinds". Things do wear out and
need to be replaced. |
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| We were then shown to the
dinning area. Now we almost fall over in shock. There
was one cage about that was about 24" x 10" x 12"
sitting on top of a small table and the owner told us
that both birds shared the same cage. |
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| The cage size is not the part that shocked us.
It should of, but it was the feces
and old bird food that was piled in and around the cage
and table. You had to see it to believe it. |
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| A pretty accurate guess would be that there was a
three foot area around the cage and table in any
direction on the floor of feces that was was over 2" in
depth and more than a foot wide. |
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| This is the owners dinning area that we are talking
about and there is no exaggeration here.
On top of that, there was only one really really old toy
in the cage for them to share. |
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| The first thing Dee did was to
go straight to Sweet Pea stepping on all the "bird crap"
in the process. She starts to put her finger up to Sweet
Pea to get her to "step up" and she is told by the owner
that she will bite and is
not tame. |
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| To late! Dee has her finger out and Sweet Pea
steps right up with no bites and she is talking to her
at close range. While Dee is
talking and playing with her, we are talking to the
owner. He tells us that both birds are fully flighted
and have full access to the house. This explains the
mini blinds. Guess with the lack of toys and the
availability of the aluminium mini blinds, the two birds
had a great time, but are also lucky to be alive at the
same time. |
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| Who knows what is in the finish coating of the binds
that they are using to munch on,not to mention how many
strings and things that are waiting for the birds to get
trapped in with no escape. |
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| How dangerous and irresponsible
is that? |
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| As said earlier, we had no intensions of
buying either bird, we were just passing time and
wanted to check them out. |
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| Surprise, Surprise or maybe not !! |
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| We bought Sweet Pea who at this point did not even
have a name according to the owner. The owner decided
that he would not part with the Sun Conure. We really
wish that we could have saved him to, even though he was
a bite master. |
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| Again. We had no intension of getting another bird
and had nothing with us to transport Sweet Pea and we
are on our way to a birthday party. We ask the owner if
he has anything that we could use. He goes out back,
somewhere and returns with the rustiest cage you could
ever imagine that only a bug would fit into. |
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| We decline the cage offer, carefully put Sweet Pea
in the car on a headrest and say goodbye. Next stop is
the nearest pet store to buy a travel cage. Well Sweet
Pea is now going with us to our nephews birthday party
who is two years old. |
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| We arrived with Max (Our Sun
Conure), who Dee's sister expected us to bring because
we he goes everywhere with us and this beautiful new
blue bird. She was not surprised at all. She just
laughed and said what are you going to bring next year?
Maybe she knew something we did not? |
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| Sweet Pea got her name at the birthday party. Austin
(our nephew) wanted to hold her. As you can imagine, we
were very apprehensive as she was a brand new bird to
us. We finally let him hold her and she is just as sweet
as can be. No bites or aggression whatsoever. |
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| So much for Indian Ring Necks being bullies in
the parrot world. |
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| When we returned home later
that evening we put her in the only cage that we had at
the time which was larger than her travel cage but still
to small for her, but that had to do for the night. It
was still a castle compared to what she had to share
before. |
