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1:52pm April 13, 2012
Peri, my friend’s Quaker parrot. She likes to dance with me. She has a huge receptive vocabulary, and she talks a lot but her “Quaker accent” is too thick to hear a lot of the time even with practice. She also seems to speak budgie. We think she was around budgies before. She’s a rescue, from a really horrible “shelter” where the woman who ran it actually punched the birds with her fist, and starved them and did who knows what else to them. So we don’t really know where she came from. When she was first adopted, she was so emaciated that we didn’t expect her to live out the week. But it’s now been years and she’s really happy now. She blows kisses and whispers “I love you” into my friend’s ear. She’s very protective of her cage and wary of people besides my friend, but she’s made a couple other friends even if she won’t always admit she likes us. And she’s so well behaved it’s hard to believe, other than that she would peck people who got too close. But if you don’t get close she’s amazing, especially for a Quaker. (And when I’ve had to towel her to give her meds, she visibly enjoys getting her head scritched. But it’s like she has to have an excuse like “I was overpowered and couldn’t do anything about it” before she allows such things, even though she’d be able to get away from scritching even in that situation if she wanted. It’s all part of her thing where she won’t quite admit people are friends even when we are, which we think has to do with her history of abuse. I actually identify with her a good deal due to my own past, and she’s coped with it in many of the same ways I have, including self-injury.)

Peri, my friend’s Quaker parrot. She likes to dance with me. She has a huge receptive vocabulary, and she talks a lot but her “Quaker accent” is too thick to hear a lot of the time even with practice. She also seems to speak budgie. We think she was around budgies before.

She’s a rescue, from a really horrible “shelter” where the woman who ran it actually punched the birds with her fist, and starved them and did who knows what else to them. So we don’t really know where she came from. When she was first adopted, she was so emaciated that we didn’t expect her to live out the week. But it’s now been years and she’s really happy now. She blows kisses and whispers “I love you” into my friend’s ear.

She’s very protective of her cage and wary of people besides my friend, but she’s made a couple other friends even if she won’t always admit she likes us. And she’s so well behaved it’s hard to believe, other than that she would peck people who got too close. But if you don’t get close she’s amazing, especially for a Quaker.

(And when I’ve had to towel her to give her meds, she visibly enjoys getting her head scritched. But it’s like she has to have an excuse like “I was overpowered and couldn’t do anything about it” before she allows such things, even though she’d be able to get away from scritching even in that situation if she wanted. It’s all part of her thing where she won’t quite admit people are friends even when we are, which we think has to do with her history of abuse. I actually identify with her a good deal due to my own past, and she’s coped with it in many of the same ways I have, including self-injury.)

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