I was asked to post some new pictures of Lenore, and quite frankly she'd be furious if she knew I hadn't been showing the internet how beautiful she is. ;) So you asked, you shall receive
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She's so precious! I love upside down birds. I totally relate to feeling privileged to be allowed to preen a bird- I've bonded with a little old blind screech owl where I volunteer and I preen her whenever I get the chance. There's basically nothing as special as a relationship with a bird =)
I feel especially lucky since I stayed with some friends last fall who have a budgie--Mr. Daisy (originally named the bird Daisy, then the cere turned blue...) is very friendly, flies around the house, steps up far more willingly than Lenore does... but he doesn't allow anyone to touch his pinfeathers. He freaks out and will instead be miserable and rub them against his toys, but no one can touch 'em. I knew then that Lenore really must trust me. :)
You're welcome! It gave me a chance to work on decent "portraits" with my DSLR, and I think that they turned out as well as one could hope for a dark apartment and a rumbled bird!
Sorry to hear about her wing, but I think you're doing the right thing by her. Birds can still get a decent amount of exercise and independence by walking around everywhere, and besides it's not like there is anything you could do to restore flight to her, so why do unnecessary procedures? I've found it takes around 3 months for a flighted bird to learn the layout of a new apartment and get comfortable flying around it. I'm not sure if unflighted birds will take longer or shorter.
She really is an adorable little bird. Totally not biased at all. ;)
To be honest I'm really relieved that the vet said a procedure was unnecessary--I knew it would be really expensive, but more importantly I'm wary of putting such a small bird through that level of trauma (anesthesia, pain, etc.). Her cage is really big and she climbs all over it, and it looks like the bird aisle of a pet store vomited in her cage, so when I let her out she explores some but doesn't really do too much. She seems to prefer to stay in her cage, and I'm fine with that. We have a good relationship where we're independent, but we're independent together, if that makes any sense. We interact, but she's not a velcro bird or anything. I'm very lucky. :)
Lenore is beautiful. By any chance was she named for the comic book character? If so, I have a GCC named Mr Gosh who would like to know how to contact his love!
*hoping you know the comic book and don't think i'm just creepy!
I do know the comic book (someone gave it to me as a gift because of Lenore!), but she's actually named on the comic book's inspiration: Poe's "The Raven," where he mourns for his lost love Lenore ("the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore, nameless here forevermore"). I've loved that poem since I was 8 years old and saw it on The Simpsons Halloween Special (here if you've never seen it), and so my dad bought me a book of Poe's work and he'd read it to me (totally appropriate for an 8 year old :P). I'm a geek about Poe's work, especially his poems, and I've been known to go to some extremes in the past (on a family road trip, my dad brought the book he got me as a kid and we read The Raven over Poe's grave in Baltimore). My dad is also in a never-ending quest to get Lenore to say "Nevermore!" :P But basically I thought the name was extremely appropriate given the context, and I think it fits her wonderfully
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I totally relate to feeling privileged to be allowed to preen a bird- I've bonded with a little old blind screech owl where I volunteer and I preen her whenever I get the chance. There's basically nothing as special as a relationship with a bird =)
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Sorry to hear about her wing, but I think you're doing the right thing by her. Birds can still get a decent amount of exercise and independence by walking around everywhere, and besides it's not like there is anything you could do to restore flight to her, so why do unnecessary procedures? I've found it takes around 3 months for a flighted bird to learn the layout of a new apartment and get comfortable flying around it. I'm not sure if unflighted birds will take longer or shorter.
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To be honest I'm really relieved that the vet said a procedure was unnecessary--I knew it would be really expensive, but more importantly I'm wary of putting such a small bird through that level of trauma (anesthesia, pain, etc.). Her cage is really big and she climbs all over it, and it looks like the bird aisle of a pet store vomited in her cage, so when I let her out she explores some but doesn't really do too much. She seems to prefer to stay in her cage, and I'm fine with that. We have a good relationship where we're independent, but we're independent together, if that makes any sense. We interact, but she's not a velcro bird or anything. I'm very lucky. :)
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*hoping you know the comic book and don't think i'm just creepy!
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