I got up and first thing I did was leave with Chris to go pick up the birds from Luis's. I was determined to get them and tell him that I thought it was very rude to not call and let me know he had to cancel and the fact he's done this twice to me now. Also that he doesn't carry his own phone or checks his voice mail or calls back. I was very pissed. I get there and he wasn't in because he went to Puerto Rico to see his sick mother. His wife was home and she let me in. I wasn't going to bring it up to her because my beef wasn't with her. Also it's hard to be mad when you think that that's a a good excuse for not showing up. But still it's not hard to take a few seconds to say, "Sorry I can't make it. Don't wait up I had an emergency." I had my list with me of all the birds I had to get back and how many cages. I got some of the cages. I was more interested in getting my birds. I stuffed a dog crate full of cockatiels, pigeons and doves. Some had babies and some had eggs so I brought the proper containers for them. In the pigeon cage with Turbo and Gorda there were lots of babies. They had one nest that I knew was there because Turbo was sitting tight on it. There were two babies that would rush me when I opened the door begging to be fed. This made me think he was handfeeding them and that they weren't weaned yet. I don't know if these are Turbo's babies or not. His wife didn't know. She only feeds and waters them. OY the last thing I needed was to have his birds die because I took away the parents. So I decided to just grab the two extra babies. I told her I was doing this and I could give those babies back once they weaned or once he got back. I made sure she had my number so he could call me with questions or problems. He's supposed to return on Friday.

That's the difference. I'm very responsible in my business both to the animals and my customers. I had four budgie I'd left but only found two. So I'll have to call him Friday and ask where my other two are. I was nervous and annoyed. His chihuahua had had puppies in the aviary. I'm glad Chris thought they were so funny and cute. Well they were but they were annoying too because I'm trying to catch biting birds and had to content to being careful where I stepped so I wouldn't step on a puppy. ARG!! And it didn't help that the puppies purposely got between your legs and chewed on your shoelaces. Double ARG! So I packed up what I could then headed off to pick up the pigeon from Rick's. Luckily Rick lives in the same subdivision. I got there and saw the pigeon was a short beaked kind but one thing was neat was that she had one red/orange eye and one brown. She looks like a different bird from each side. I love her orange eye. Chris says I should name her Yuna because of that. She flies well but does have a bad leg. I'll have to see what I can do about fixing it. Rick and his friends found it amusing that our truck was stuffed full of birds and I was adding another. I told him I'd just come from another bird house and was making my bird rounds for pick ups. hehe.

On the way home I realized, "OMG!! I didn't grab Titanic and his mate!!!" Titanic is one of my sweet older males that sings a lot. He was my first talking cockatiel and special because he flew into my life. I never found his original owner but I hope they know somehow he ended up in good hands...until now. How could I have missed him? I think with all the puppies and extra babies and eggs my count got messed up and I didn't look at some cages that were on the very bottom. Sigh, well I have to go back to pick up the last of my cages anyway. I didn't take any pictures, but I will and I'll post those here and on my pigeon journal soon. So right now I'm handfeeding two babies. A pied and a normal from Turbo and Gorda. Turbo and Gorda are in the aviary and don't have a nest so I have to take care of these little guys. They were a bit old but I managed to get them banded. WOO hoo my first banding ever. The older bird was a tight squeeze. I had to use soap to get it on.

Then Chris and I went out to Target and a dinner date. He got me this neat DVD set of Christmas movies like Rudolf, the Grinch and a Santa movie. I also picked up a copy of Wicked. It's neat because the edges of the pages are neon green. I love that! I hope it will be a fun read.

Well no pics but I did make a movie of my babies being handfed. I think this is my best so far because I have subtitles and background music.




The music is Insanity by King Diamond. Listen closely and you'll here one squeek and at the end budgies screaming in the background.

Oh, I have two people down on the official list for the calendar so far. I only need three more.
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