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The Rescue of Peanut "
Wednesday I took off of work all day, because I was not feeling very well,
when one of my friends called me at home and was telling me about a
woman she knew that had a red front macaw, that only lived a couple of
miles away from me, well it surprised me, because
I actually felt like no one
in my town owned any birds whatsoever, except another woman that
raised Quakers and Nanday conures, well that's another story, I thought I
would ride down to the woman's house since I was at
home and see her
macaw and also to let her know that I also owned a b/g. She was a real
nice lady she let me in and I was playing with her bird she had named
Crackers. Well after being there for about an hour, I kept hearing this
noise, it sort of sounded like a ferby if anyone has heard of the ferbys you
kind of know what they sound like my daughter has 2 of them so I knew
what they sounded like, or sort of like one of them gizmo's like in that
gizmo movie. I kept hearing it for about 30 minutes, well finally I asked
the lady what was that noise. She kindly informed me it was nothing, I
finally persisted to find out what that noise was and she finally told me
that she had a 5 month old yellow crown amazon, and I said really where
is it, she kept telling me I did not want to see it, it was real mean. So I
begged her to let me see it, so she finally went to get it, you all will not
believe what it was in, my heart went down to my stomach, I thought
that I was going to throw up, it was in some kind of little crate, you know
one of those wood crates that you have, it was dirty, it's feathers were all
matted up together where it looked like it had been rolling around in it's
poop, it stunk so bad it took my breath away, I could not believe it, I asked
her why it was in that condition, and she said no body could do anything with it, because
it would always bite them, I said what are you going to do
with it, she said that she thought about selling it but, she did not think
anyone would buy it because it was so mean. I asked her how much do you
want for it, she told me $500, 1 went home and just cried, because I knew that
I could not get it. I did not have the money for it, what with Christmas
coming and getting Pebbles and a cage for her. I could not get her. I did
not sleep at all Wednesday night and when I did I had nightmares. I finally
got up and told my husband I was going to get that bird, I could not stand
to think about it being locked up like that. I knew that if I did not get it
the baby would die. I could not live with myself if I let that happen, so I
took the money that I had been saving up for Pebbles and went to the
lady's house and bought the bird. I went to the closest pet store and bought
a big cage for her for $700. 1 took the baby home and give her a bath and
cleaned her up and everything. Oh she was so pretty. She can already say a
few words I was really surprised. I took her to the vet yesterday. She does
have a bacteria infection and one foot was fused together. The
vet did surgery on it and got her foot apart. She is way underweight
and the vet wants me to hand feed her for a while so she can get her
weight back up. I just hope that she makes it because she is a little baby doll.
I will not be able to get Pebbles now, I am real sad about that, but I knew
that I could not let this bird die. I know that Pebbles will be able to get a
good home somewhere. Maybe I am real stupid to do this, but I felt like I did not
have no choice to do it. I do not think that I could have lived with myself if I did not
do it.
I think I will name it Peanut, because it is so little.
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Marsha |
