Pets

I've always had pets, mostly cats. At one point I had a cat, a dog (that I took after I saw the owner kick her), and an African Grey parrot that I inherited from a friend who passed away.

The cat, Dewey, went to live with my He's buried in the backyard.son when he moved out and was settled. He was 17 (the cat, not my son) when he escaped and DS found him dead after being hit by a car. He's buried in the backyard.

The dog was a Miniature Schnauzer and was about 8 years old when I got her. She was lovely and I had for for 4 years. One night I woke up to a noise outside the bedroom door and she was having seizures right outside the door. I took her downstairs and called the vet at 5:30am. Ended up at the vets at 7:30 with Maxie being put down after having a series of seizures. I drove home in tears.

The African Grey was called Taco. She had lived with Peter for 28 years when he passed away. She looked on me as the person who took her away from Peter, and she hated me. I couldn't do anything with her. She would bite me, actually going out of her way to do so. One time we had the cat, the dog, and the parrot on the living room floor, and she walked past Dewey and past Maxie and bit my toe! She'd squeal and I'd shout at her to stop. Neither of us was happy. In the end I found her a home with someone who understood parrots and where she'd be much happier.

We had another cute little cat for a while, but that didn't work out well.

So now we are "petless" and it feels weird. DH doesn't want dog because we are not home enough. He doesn't want a cat because he can sometimes still smell where Misty peed on the carpet. He's got it in his head that he wants a bird.

So we've been looking at birds. No, nothing like Taco! A smaller bird, a parakeet. We've been to a pet store that specializes in exotic birds, and we narrowed it down to a Lineolated Parakeet, or Linnie. Green is the most prevalent colour for Linnies, but I don't like green. We have been looking for a blue one, and a male because males apparently a better talkers.

We've spent time the last few weekends looking at cages and toys for birds, going around all the local pet stores. I said I'd get rid of my organ that doesn't really work properly and we'd put the bird there. I bought an old oak 3-drawer dresser last week and the bird cage will sit on that, and it will also give us much needed storage.

DH has been looking on-line, and he found a breeder about 1.5 hours from her who has two baby Linnies. She has had them DNA sexed, and the cobalt blue is male. He's only 3.5 weeks old, so not ready to be sold yet, but we are going to go visit him today and we'll pay a deposit so that he'll be ours. I'll take pictures and will try to post them tomorrow.