I hope you get as good a laugh out of this bird as I do, nonstop. Rex McCaw blows me kisses, purrs, sidewaltzes, displays his wings. He does this very ecstatic dance when he locks onto the bars with his beak. Watch all the stuff he does with his tongue, too. You can hear Athena Stepinupoulos attempt at singing (Grays are not known for their musical ability, but the three of us sing and dance together anyway...its just about expressing joy). He still doesnt feel comfortable stepping on the heated Thermo-perch...or maybe its just warm enough in the room anyway. Im impervious to cold, so the heat is really for their benefit, anyway. Last week I was told that the reason volunteers would not come to help out with him and the other three birds that were here (as an official part of Wilton Parrot Rescue) was that they felt depressed about the deplorable conditions Rex was being kept in, felt sorry for him, but couldnt handle the whole scene. Apparently, they were all going to show up in early October as a posse and bring him back to our so-called main site, i.e. the one where the owner has not even shown up in six months, where I and others continued to do shifts. Riiiight, because that would really be best for him---and he obviously hates it here, smfh. And if the conditions here were so bad: you go help the three birds across the street (two of whom are not rescue birds, but belong to the owner anyway) and abandon this one? How does that even make sense? I also found out that people think I was not a real volunteer. Interesting, since I did one to three 3-hour shifts per week for three years, longer than anyone still working at the rescue as of a month ago. As we became short-staffed (the owner vanished, other volunteers quit), I switched to doing three shorter shifts so as to cover more days....all while taking on up to five rescue and boarding birds in my own house, as a satellite rescue. Part of why Rex likes me is that, uniquely, I consider it important not just to clean cages four times a day (!!!), but focus on the behavioral aspects that will actually make a parrot adoptable...whereas some volunteers would not even handle the birds. So I spent a lot of time working with him, as I did the other birds. And the sad thing: no one would even be honest with me and tell me this to my face.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 00:54:14 +0000
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