Trace was retired to our home and little did I know just what great talkers Double Yellow Headed amazon really were. Trace had been passed around and was an aggressive biter. I have no overwhelming desire to hold my birds or to be bitten, so Trace and I worked it out. He had a big play top cage and I would let him loose, if he didn't bite me. Almost a perfect solution.

When the college bound girl tearfully left her "Cuddles" (A nanday conure) with me, it was agreed that it would be just until the end of the term and she had a new home to bring Cuddles to. I never saw her again. I had Cuddles sexed and changes his name to Cutty. He was a bitting, cage bound grouch. I really thought that he would be forced to change if moved into open flying space. Boy was I wrong. He hated the aviary, avoided all the other birds, found a hiding place and escaped the aviary. One day with no food or water and he landed on Jim to get back in the aviary.

This is a love bird on the left and a sun conure on the right. Two different kind of birds, but now buddies for life. The sun conure, Wookie Woo was born with a deformed spine and hips, generally breeders put such babies down. But Wookie was lucky, he was born to Linda Kelly, a breeder that gives every bird a chance. Yes his spine is still twisted so he has trouble walking, but absolutely none flying. The little love bird was just another unwanted pet. His name is Tarzan. When the two birds were released into the aviary, they became fast friend.