Originally posted by WolfChan
*grins* I ADORE Parrotlets!! All of your birds are darling, but I melt for Parrotlets!


Sugar was named after the late Sugar, who was a grey cheeked parakeet. He was partial to me until my step dad came around and then he didn't like anyone but my dad. I got the first Sugar free when I was walking down the street and heard birdie noises. I asked the lady if she had a parrot and she said yes and then asked if I wanted it lol. I can't believe she was serious and that she gave it to me, as I was in the 8th grade at the time!


But well she did and I took him home. Birds were the only animals I was allowed to actually keep if I found them...but cats sort of grew on her, hehe. One of the tiels we had, a cute little latino girl we found in a tree, an you believe it! If we didn't find her she would have been killed by the crows for sure. She was my favorite out of all the girls because she was so pretty.


Anyways back to Sugar the first. So I had him for quite a long time until he passed away very tagically. He was in the living room walking around as usual when my step dad got home. My sister who was around 7? or so at the time got really excited and came running out of the bedroom to give Denny a hug and she accidently stepped on Sugar. Poor birdie.

It was Easter that day and we had to take him to the ER vet, my mom wasn't even going to let me go with her! He was still my bird, even though he liked Denny.....we would constantly joke that Denny would marry Sugar before my mother lol, that's how much he loved that bird.

So he went to the vet and they took xrays which weren't conclusive, or at least to me, I couldn't see anything. We suspected hehad suffered internal injuries. We still have his xrays, he looked like a chicken. But they kept him in an incubator and oxygen tank thingy for three days and then we took him home. He died the next day.

We were all sad, especially Denny and my sister, as she thought it was her fault he died, even though it was an accident. My younger brother still doesn't let her live that down when we get to talking birdie talk. So that's the story of Sugar the first and how Sugar the second got his name.


Sugar 2 actually used to have a girlfriend but one day a feral cat actually unhooked our screen door and came inside the house and got a hold of the bird...you can assume what happened to that cat, my mom took him to the pound. They were feral cats I would feed and take care of so my mom blamed it on me, but I wasn't going to let those cats starve!

Oh you know what, my mom has a parakeet too! They found it in their front yard!!! It was so cool because Denny went out there with some seed and the birdie walked right into his hand, he's VERY tame so whoever he belonged to took very good care of him.


The tiel they have now they purchased after Sugarbabys girlfriend died. The tiel and Sugar used to live together but after the keet came my mom put the keep with the tiel and now Sugar is by himself! But they cages are right next to eachother and they do get out time together though.

I could go on and on about out tiels and birdies lol!