Friday

This is Friday.

This is what we know about him:

Friday was with his last family for 25 years, and was purchased at a pet store when his first home had to surrender due to death of the primary caregiver, who was a female. We don’t know how old he was when he was adopted by his last family.

He loves to whistle, make coughing noises and bark, he’s not a picky eater, loves red grapes and corn as his favorites. He’s been on a seed diet his entire life, and is currently undergoing his feed conversion.

His favorite activities are shredding paper, paper towel rolls, receipt tape and waffle balls.

He doesn’t really know how to step up, but he is stick trained and likes hanging out with you if he can stand on a stick to do it.

He was surrendered because his current family of 25 years is suffering some very serious medical issues, including terminal illness.
Age: 25+

Sex: Assumed Male, 25 years no eggs

Prefers: Males or Females? Females

Other Bird Aggressive? No.

Cage Aggressive? No. He’s more nervous.

Adoption Fee: $900

Cage Available: Affordable used cages available to purchase starting at $100.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
Needs someone willing to nurture him and earn his trust. He’s a very sweet hearted tender bird.

***Information that is universal to every bird:

1) Birds are typically not family animals. They usually choose a favorite and at best you can expect them to tolerate everyone else.

2) Birds are not great with kids, dogs, other birds, and are not cuddly with everyone, nor can they really be trained to be. Birds are flock animals, who are social creatures that need to be in a communal area where they can see the rest of the family, or you may eperience serious vocalization and behavior problems. We’ve never met a bird who is great with kids, but we have met kids who are respectful of birds.

3) Birds bite. But, you shouldn’t “take the bite”. If you’re getting bit, you haven’t earned the trust of the bird, and are pushing the bird past his/her limits. You must figure out what the bird needs, and make what you’re asking of the bird more attractive than what they are already doing.

4) Birds are not “dominance” based creatures. Your only option for birds is to earn their trust. If they are, say…on top of a cage and don’t want to come down, that is where they feel safest, not a dominance thing. They are not trying to exert dominance, they just don’t want to come down. Your job as a parrot owner is to figure out what you can do to help them trust you, and whatever you are asking to be more attractive than what they are already doing.

5) NEVER send money over the internet for adoption with any individual or organization for the adoption of an animal you have not met in person. That is almost always a scam.