Share Cypher:
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| Name: |
Cypher
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Age: |
Eight years old
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| Gender: |
Male
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Kind: |
Nanday Conure
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| Home: |
Cedar Grove, New Jersey, USA
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Adding Cypher to my family just kind of...happened. I have a bad habit of going into Petco just to look at the birds since I love them dearly and always enjoy watching the new babies flop around and do tricks for the passerby. One day I go into Petco and I saw this the bird that would be Cypher just sitting there, eating. I had never seen a nanday conure in the Petco before, just green cheeks and sun conures, so he immediately caught my eye. What made him stand out more was his lack of interest in, well, anything. He wasn't doing tricks, he wouldn't come up to the glass, heck, he didn't seem to be interested in anything but his food. I called an employee over and asked to see him. She said he was fearful of people and while she was working with him, he rarely came close to her even when coaxed with a sunflower seed. Now, I already had a bird so I figured I would give it a try. She let me try to coax him out with a sunflower seed. I tried this for a few days, coming back and offering him a seed. He came closer to me each time until he finally stepped up onto my hand. I immediately scooped him into my arms and he just sat there like a chicken, resting against my chest. I had never seen such a mild mannered bird...I knew at that point he was so special and I had to bring him home.
I went back four additional times after that until I had the money to bring him home. I swear, he's like a gift from the heavens. The vet and I thought he was sick because he is always so mellow. He doesn't bite, he doesn't mind people loving on him, he loves to ride on shoulders and snuggle under blankets. He's just such a special little soul, a super snugly little eating machine with so much love to give. Everyone in my life gushes about Cypher, how he's the reason they want to get a bird of their very own, how he's such a sweetheart and "why can't Neo be like that?" (Neo is the other bird I own. He was a rescue and he only has eyes for me. He can be quite aggressive so he has to be fully supervised around strangers). In the spur of the moment to get away from studying, I decided to post a picture of my birds on an art site I had frequented for the latter portion of a decade. To my surprise, Cypher has been getting a lot of love, even on the internet! So here, I want to share him with you, too. I'm sure he'd love you just as much as he loves everyone else! So enjoy my littlest beeb, the teddy-bear like Cypher.
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