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Originally posted by K9soul
Aly, so many compliments I'm blushing! Thank you very much for your kind words.
Thank you :). Dawn is a cinnamon pied pearl and I also love her colors. She is also so inquisitive and sweet. Within a couple hours of getting her home when she was still a youngster, I had earned her trust enough that she let me touch her head, and ever since then she has just been the most cuddly and affectionate bird I've ever had. My mother bred parakeets for a time when I was a kid so those were mainly the birds I had exposure to. I've found the tiels to be so laid back and sweet natured. The keets were more comedians but at least the ones I grew up around were more interested in the other keets than with people.
Dusk was two years old when I got him, I saw an ad on the internet that someone was selling him as they had gotten him but then found otu they had an allergy to the feather dander. He apparently had a wing injury when he was younger, not sure exactly what happened but he has never grown his long flight feathers back in on that wing and so he can't fly at all. When I got him I thought it had just been clipped short, and maybe someone did overclip it? I'm not sure :(. Those feathers never grew though. He fell in love with Dawn right away but Dawn wanted nothing to do with him. She was attached to me and that's it. I think she thinks of herself as a person more than a bird. Dusk was so heart broken and always crying and calling to her.. day after day. I couldnt stand it, and didn't want to get rid of him, so I decided to get a young bird to be a companion for him and that's how I ended up with Twilight.
All three seem happy now, Dusk and Twi are such a cute little couple. I will get more pictures of them soon :)
I was just showing your pets' pics to my parents, and they were awwing and ohhing over how BEAUTIFUL Dawn is! I swear, she is just gorgeous! So are the others, but Dawn's coloring and pattern really catches my eye. My Muffin is also a VERY cuddly little girl. I think its a *girl thing*, because the boys are more vocal, and the girls more cuddly. I also find cockatiels to be much more interactive and human loving than most parakeets I've been around.