jwancia

Thanks so much for the warm welcome guys! I just picked up by bushies today! So excited. Ill take some pics real soon. Thanks for the quarantine note as well, but im not planning on introducing them. Rook is my companion and the bushies are for breeding. Saying that tho I am much more smitten with the bushies. I have a feeling my housemate may end up leaving wit Rook (they both like each other), which would be lovely! :budgiedance: Ill keep you all posted (IM SOOO EXCITED about these bushies, the are teeny tiny!

Gday ALL! Id like to start off with a quick thank-you for the site- i think i am addicted alread =D My name is Jessica, I am 21 (young but wise ) and I live in Melbourne. Im currently finishing my Bachelor of Animal and Veterinary Biosciences (although I am a shocking speller! Sorry!) I, like many people, have a passion for all animals great and small. Although living with my parents still has restricted me from obtaining as many animals as I would have liked (which is a good thing, I would have had a zoo by now). Thankfully last christmas by dad let me get a budgie. At the time I wanted a sun conure or something as pretty and impressive with character. But a budgie was what I was aloud.... And how wrong I was. Budgies have all the character, smarts and colour of any larger bird. I was hooked. His name was McKenzie and he was hand reared. I recon he was only 5 or 6 weeks, maybe younger when i got him. I think he was forced weaned because he still looked to my fingers as a food source (he did the head bobbing and crying thingo). He was amazing and smart and i taught him soo well. My partner and I were in love. He was our son. (cheak out www.youtube.com/jwancia for his videos). Unfortunately a few weeks ago I tragically stepped on Mak and he passed away in my hands. I cant really talk in depth about it cause it make me cry like a baby. This left a hole in the house and our hearts, we decided to promptly get a new baby to channel our love onto. His name is Rook and he is a sky blue opaline. He was not tame when we got him so I am having a super hard time taming him Compared to Mak.... But we will hopefully work through this. Tomorrow I am getting a breeding pair of bush budgies which I am very excited about and looking forward to sharing with you all. Feel free to suggest names for the cute tiny pair. I should probably mention that I work in a pet store (GASPS shock horror), but no, I am proud to say that I work in a pet store- more so proud to work at this one. Thankfully we are one of the rare ones that do things right! 4 of our staff breed birds (including eccies and the like) and the owner himself breeds red tailed black cockatoos. We are a family owned pet and produce store; so we may not be sparkling and clean (what do you expect from hay and animals!) like pets paradise, but we are healthy and well run. I do get defencive when people bag out pet stores. But i understand also that its the bad that ruin it for good ones. Either way thanks for making me welcome in this site and I hope to contribute much to it. Kind Regards Jessie, Rook and the late McKenzie

Id just like to add: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE dont let your budgie run around on the ground. I know it sounds like a given (and it is) but its easy to take for granted. I just lost my first baby budgie. I adored him and I taught him all sorts of tricks (wave, spin fetch etc), he wants even a year old yet. Yep... You guessed it.... I stepped on him. He died in my hands on the way to the emergency room. I Cryed and cryed and cryed for days. It was like loosing a child. I cry now as i am writing this. Even tho you may think they are on the other side of the room, THEY MOVE SO QUICK AND QUIETLY. Mistakes happen. And i have to live with that for the rest of my life....

I had no idea that markets were still aloud to sell live stock - maybe it is just a Victoria thing?, Carribean Gardens in fern tree gully used to have a market back when i was a tiny kid. But no live stock has been sold for years. It absolutely breaks my heart to hear these stories! They are important tho. Vent away! If I had have seen that i would be venting as well

yes well put angelic. By The Way where is that store? (in burwood i presume) but where? I havent heard of it before and i am from that area. CHeers

The picture are very very hard to tell. Any ther pictures in good light would be very helpfull! But i think you may be right, the middle is a girl the other may be boys

I agree that Pets at Home looks good from the outside but they are a big co-orporation that care more about their image than the care of their animals. They originated over in the UK. Now dont get me wrong they dont abuse animals or anything like that- BUT they dont know quite as much as you thought. They are not all "educated" staff - most are from non-professional animal back grounds. Those staff that WERE employed and had alot of knowlege, eventually were "let go"- a downside of a large corporate corporation. There is however a shop down the road (Fantastic Pets, Narre-Warren. Formerly Narre Pets and Produce) that do have very knowlegable staff. They are a family owned and run company (the children of the owners are now running the place) that care very much about the health of the animals and their care. They may not be a "clean cut" looking as pets at home- but they are a produce store - im sure you guys understand. Many of the people there breed birds and have a passion for them. The owner himself breeds red tailed black cockatoos. Anyways.... I highly recomend Fantastic Pets in Narre-Warren. Its Next door to bunnings just off the highway. Let me know what you think ;D