HELLO LOVELY FAMILY.
I have been very busy, mostly taking care of sick cats. Echo is fine now, but she decided to cost me lots of money by getting ill on a public holiday. Thanks, toots. And because I then spent a few days watching her instead of sleeping, I avoided the internet quite a bit.
But hi!
The other news is that I got another bird. I was actually on the trading site here in NZ looking for a small carry cage for Flynn. In the cage listings there was an ad for another lovebird. The ad had been up for four months and little wonder because it was in the WRONG PLACE. And in the photos, the bird’s cage looked disgusting. I couldn’t ignore that so I decided to go check it out and it was even worse than in the photos. The cage hadn’t been cleaned in months. The drinking water was covered in algae and the food had a lot of poop in it. The bird was covered in nicotine stains. So I took him with me and we visited a vet the next day. The bird was miraculously okay aside from malnutrition, but the vet was horrified at the state of his feathers so he asked for the info and made a report to the RSPCA. Which is good because I was going to if he didn’t.
My plan was to sell the bird on since I only really got him to get him out of that place. But Flynn got along so well with him instantly (which apparently never happens with lovies so hurrah) that I’m keeping him. His name is Quinn and he’s a Peach-faced Dutch Blue Lovebird. His feathers are still stained, but he looks WAY better than he did at first. And once he molts he’ll be back to normal.
In the second photo you can see his tail is all chewed because the other bird in the cage with him (they wouldn’t let me take that bird too, I tried) was beating Quinn up out of boredom because they didn’t have any toys to play with. When I took Quinn the put the other bird into a different, bigger cage though so I hope it’s okay now. Especially since they’ve been reported. Quinn’s beak is still stained greenish because of the algae water and it’s still a little beat up but he has calcium now so it’ll sort itself out in time.
He wasn’t used to people at all, but now he will sit on my finger and it’s awesome. And Flynn continues to be delightful. So there. My life is animals.