Lisa Shea Forums Parakeets Non-Budgie Pets and Animals Work Birdies!!

I took some great pics of some of the guys at work. Enjoy!!

Shack. I taught him to stretch his wings up and out when I say 'Woo, Shacky is SO handsome!'


He kept trying to bite the lens of the camera!


When I come into the shop in the morning he says to me 'Hi, Shacky!' Which is what I say to him when I see him. When I open his cage to let him out for the day he tells me 'Hello, Darlin!' I've become really, really fond of him, and vice versa. Nancy says she's never seen him take to someone like he has me.


Shack'y Closeup...I LOVE this pic!


Dylan...who is looking really rough since his mate died, and Lacey, who loves to dance!


Lacey has a really dainty girl voice, and she sounds too, too funny when she talks! Dylan really likes her and it's helping him to have her as a friend so he doesn't grieve to death.


Odd clutchmates.


Little Finch!


Ringneck babies. I'm thinking I'm going to keep one! LOL


They look like little dinosaurs, don't they?


Yo-yo Finch, you toss him into the air and he comes right back! LOL He's a funny fellow!
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Cute! I want one of each!! Lucky gal. I need to find a job like that.

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO,MAKING ME JEALOUS.

poor Dylan,and your descriptions sound soooo funny!!!

thanks for sharing the pics!!!!!

awwwwwww they are allllllllllll so cute!!! i love it! poor dylan

They are AWESOME! I totally LOOOOVE my job!

Lacey tried to make an escape the other day. We had the door propped open and she went walking right out the door! Thank God her wings are clipped!! I had just clipped them a few days prior, too. I hear Nancy screaming to me "Get Lacey! She's outside!!" Lacey hates Nancy and would've fought her and might have flown into the road and gotten killed. I was all the way in the back of the shop and I came running to get her. There she is, standing on the sidewalk, looking around. It was kind of funny, but scary, too!

omg,so scary!!!

is the finch a plucker?

(feather)

No. He has hand rearing formula on him. It makes his feathers all cruddy. His chest is naked because he hasn't gotten all of his adult feathers yet. You can see it really well because his crop is full.

there just darlining...thanks for sharing them I love the macaw close up

That finch is soooooooooooo hilarious! I was laughing so hard when I saw him getting trampled by the other babies. He's like "Look at me! I'm just as big as them..." *Squish* Lol, he is soooooo adorable.

I am sooo working at the bird store next year.

It doesn't pay much money wise...but there are definitely other rewards involved. It's really cool how you form friendships with the birds. They come to know you and are genuinely happy to see you, which is more than I can say for most jobs where you work with people!

Like Shack, he has picked up the way I talk and laugh and mimics me, people even say how he sounds like me when they come in to visit.

It's really fun

EVERYONEneeds to do a few days working with animals every once in a while...like working in a shelter a weekend here or there. It's really rewarding. You can't help but smile when you're playing with an animal!

Awww they're all so precious. I especially like when Shack is biting the camera haha. He sounds adorable

Yes! I totally agree. That's why when the museum closed I was so depressed. Animals are so wonderful to work with. Even on the worst days I would go take one of the raptors outside and *poof* instant smile. Very rewarding.

I also agree! I volunteer at the local animal shelter every other weekend and it is SO rewarding!

I so want a partime job in a pet store but there is no way. I can't touch meal worms/crickets/ those ;long sluggy things that eat the tofu, or spiders or um scorpions. Other than that hmm there may be more things eww but i have not seen them.

I have never touched a gerbil, hamster, guinea pig, chinchilla or ferret, just a bunny but they don't bother me i could learn those ones.

that is so awesome

that finch cracks me the heck up LMAO

its such an odd sight to see the finch!!! you have a great job, lacey is a great name. im glad she didnt get away.

omg i want to buy the finch sooooo cute! he could live with the keets

Someone came in the other day and saw him. When I told him that Nancy had hand fed him, he said 'Why? When the parents aren't feeding it, you let it die.' This guy is a "reputable breeder", too! People are really cruel.

Coco, you have never touched a chinchilla?!!! Seriously they are the softest things in the world. And their little paws are so stinking cute. You gotta find one and pet it soon!! If I wasnt allergic to them I would own one.

i never touched one either.

my PetCo has them,but you can't touch them.

They are seriously so soft. I loved working with them until they made me sneeze!! lol

Ya plus they are sleeping usu. under a log and it says chinchillas sleeping do not bother us zzz on a sign.

AW! the birds are beautiful! Lacey sounds like she's a sweet heart! She's beautiful too! What kind of color mutations does she have? I haven't seen a cockatoo like her before.

I like the Yo-yo finch! I had no idea you can hand train finches, I thought they were too small, and their little hearts couldn't take it.

So much for what I know! LOL!

Is it actually called a Yoyo finch? Up here we don't have those or i haven't looked hard enpough , we have star/ nun/and gouldian finches and a few others but I don't know my finch types.

I think Yo-yo was a joke, as in you toss him away, and he comes back. A yo-yo or a boomerang, etc.

Haha okay, i remember reading that but I though ..maybeee? Anything is possible much like the Nun finch that looks like it's wearing a habit so... okay nmd laugh away!

LOL...yea, it was a joke!

Lacey is a Galah, or Rose Breasted Cockatoo. They are considered very rare in the United States, but are actually a nusiance bird in Australia and farmers kill them. She's a great bird. She talks pretty well, loves to dance and has a preference about the type of music she will dance to, and is gentle.

WOW!Hard to imagine a bird like that being killed... Maybe we need to import them for pets instead of shooting them. (I know, I know... hard to domesticate a wild bird).

omigosh, I just have to say really quick, I LOVE CHINCHILLAS!! they are so stinkin cute and soft. we have a few at work right now and I love to take them out and play with them

They are too darn hyper, though! But they are soft and cute as heck!

I heard they stink worse then rabbits and bite.

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