Post by laura on Nov 4, 2014 17:21:17 GMT -5
Hi all,
I made the heartbreaking decision to re-home my babies this last weekend and have not stopped crying since. Although in my previous posts I mentioned I was keeping them and working through some tough behaviors, we have to move this next weekend into a new rental and despite searching frantically we could not find a place where we could take them with us - we have an incredibly tight budget at the moment and without accepting this property we would have had no where to live in another weeks time. I considered fostering them out but didn't really like any of the options so i put them up for adoption. A lady is coming down to see them on Friday and is so keen to adopt, she has other parrots and seems to be about as bird crazy as i am! it was like talking to myself on the phone, she is big on enrichment, has common sense about bird care and has heaps of time for them all (her kids are adults so its just her and her husband).
I asked her so many questions and grilled her so much about why she would like to adopt that i am surprised she kept talking to me! I turned down about 8-10 people who called/emailed because i didn't like them or they wanted breeders... so i was being very picky. I am so heartbroken over this decision but I will be directing her to this forum as i think it is awesome - so keep an eye out! However, i dont think i will be able to come back for a long while - it just makes me cry! I hope to get quakers again someday, but most probably when we are older and have less demands on our time/lives. This has been the hardest decision of my life and if i ever adopt another quaker it will be for life - i cannot go through this again.
thank you to everyone here for being so great with advice, encouragement and sharing their stories, your all awesome and i hope that this forum will still be going when i get the opportunity to be owned once again by quaker parrots. keep an eye out for Gypsie and Tango's new owner,
Laura
I made the heartbreaking decision to re-home my babies this last weekend and have not stopped crying since. Although in my previous posts I mentioned I was keeping them and working through some tough behaviors, we have to move this next weekend into a new rental and despite searching frantically we could not find a place where we could take them with us - we have an incredibly tight budget at the moment and without accepting this property we would have had no where to live in another weeks time. I considered fostering them out but didn't really like any of the options so i put them up for adoption. A lady is coming down to see them on Friday and is so keen to adopt, she has other parrots and seems to be about as bird crazy as i am! it was like talking to myself on the phone, she is big on enrichment, has common sense about bird care and has heaps of time for them all (her kids are adults so its just her and her husband).
I asked her so many questions and grilled her so much about why she would like to adopt that i am surprised she kept talking to me! I turned down about 8-10 people who called/emailed because i didn't like them or they wanted breeders... so i was being very picky. I am so heartbroken over this decision but I will be directing her to this forum as i think it is awesome - so keep an eye out! However, i dont think i will be able to come back for a long while - it just makes me cry! I hope to get quakers again someday, but most probably when we are older and have less demands on our time/lives. This has been the hardest decision of my life and if i ever adopt another quaker it will be for life - i cannot go through this again.
thank you to everyone here for being so great with advice, encouragement and sharing their stories, your all awesome and i hope that this forum will still be going when i get the opportunity to be owned once again by quaker parrots. keep an eye out for Gypsie and Tango's new owner,
Laura
