Tiamet the African Grey

That is such a lovely heart warming story. Tiamet sounds like a gorgeous parrot. She sound like a very special bird. African Grey Parrots are very good at talking. My mum had an American friend when I was a teenager. She had an African Grey parrot but she kept making loud noises. So the lady took the bird back to the pet shop. She then go a Rainbow Lorikeet. But that bird kept dropping food on her white carpet. So she also took that bird back. Then she got a White Fronted Amazon and all seemed well with him so she kept that bird. But then she moved home to America so she gave my mum the parrot and along with four rabbits. That was in 1987. Bingo came to live with me in 2005. He is such a lovely bird. He can talk a little and say words like hello. He is very happy and adores company from humans. He was hand feed when he was a baby bird. Therefore he doesn't know he is a bird although he can fly. He doesn't understand that he is a bird. He hated having a budgie friend. He gets quite vocal around early evening. I love him very much indeed. He enjoy listening to music and hearing people cheering in a pop concert that has been recorded. He had a varied diet of sunflower seeds, monkey huts, other nuts and seeds as well as pieces of fruit and vegetable. He is now about 20 years old.

I don't have a parrot, but as an animal rescuer, I loved your story about her. I am so glad that you found eachother. There is a guy who writes for one of the motorcycle magazines that travels with his parrot or macaw - I will have to find out which one.

What a heartwarming story, I love birds and think they are the smartest creatures. I think that your bird is smart, you are right or it wouldn't be the basket she fell in. I hope that she comes around and starts to trust again. It is nice to hear of people giving animals a new lease on life.

I loved your story. It was very heart warming. I don't have an african gray, but would like to have one some day. I do have a cockateil though. He can talk & he oves to dance to hip hop music. His favorite song is "Drop it like its hot' by snoop dogg.

We were given a Conyer that was also kept in a garage for many years because when he screeched, it hurt the ears badly! I sat by him and talked to him for months, then got brave enough to put my hand in his cage... he bit me hard!! Then he flew out the door and I ducked... he landed on my shoulder and 'kissed' my cheek! Actually, he nibbled me, but at least it was nice! We had no other animals then so he was out of his cage more often than not. And usually on my shoulder. His name was Jocko-Jocko, Monster Birdie, and he loved to dance and sing with M.C. Hammer!

Hi Adoniah, I read a lot about the Sumerian history (His Story), but mostly the books of Zecharia Sitchin as they made most sense to me. He mentined this name for a planet once positioned between Mars and Jupiter, which got torn apart, one half became the shatered asterioid belt and the other half became earth. This could explain, why the landmass of earth was all concentrated on one side, which seems to be an impossible distribution of matter on a rotating body like earth. Matter should really be distributed "equally". And further, even if it was a natural occurence, it probably took some time to develope. I cannot say how long ago this happened, as time is a funny thing in itself. But what I would doubt, if I was a searching soul, what caused this "natural uneven distribution of matter" to break up? Could it be possible, that it was not "natural", that this "collision" actually happened the way the Sumerian described it? After all, how could they possibly know about the asterioid belt? (Without a "hubble", well there are a few possibilities... I would like to find out all the different possibilities people can dream of). I used to be surrounded by animals: Horse, ponies, deers, rabbits, hamsters, mice, a monkey, a parrot, budgies and all the "crawlers" like snakes, lizzards, salamander, whatever we could find. I remember me and my friends catching the shiny green "Eidechsen" (lizzards) in italy and they were fast... However, we took them from Italy to our home in Germany and put them into glass terrariums. I think my mother helped us to do so. To feed the lizzards, we caught flies, ripped one wing out and threw them into spider-webs at the stable, to wait for the spider to come out that we could catch them, as they were a "bigger portion" for the lizzard. I only now see a possible connection why we now have stinging flies, moscitos, poisonous spiders... It could be possible, that nature provided them with a natural "protection" against a "predator", as the "families" of any species might "feel" that "humans" interfered and are dangerous to them. We know that even plants develope defense-mechanisms against "natural enemies". Maybe we should start to consider us as "natural enemies" in some ways too. I just happened to make an interesting observation this morning. Yesterday I was watching a moscito flying about my head, back and forward. So, I tried something else instead of smshing it in mid-air. I let the mosi take its's drop, because it also could be possible that by doing so, the moscito gets enough blood that then could contain enough anti-bodies to strenghten the immun-system. Well then I had some cucumber, bread and tomatoes for tea and left the dishes at the sink. As I got up early in the morning, I saw a moscito on the cucumber and it looked just like it was "sucking". I quickly got my camera out and took some photos and a movie-clip. If I find someone one da to help me to set up a web-site, I will post all this on this website and will make it available to everyone. And allow everyonne to share their stuff for "free" and if we make enough money there, everyone will get their fair share of course! I think it might be worth researching these things, as we could possibly change our attitude towards these creepy-crawlers. Even my 5 year old daughter picks up spiders and carries them outside. I think we will have sooo many more nice things to talk about. Shalom

my grey is very silly he laughs and coughs to

I H ave a 3 year old African Grey and he is silly. he use to fall off his perch all the time but now he just makes allot of chatter he repeats things people say and noises and even rings the phone and says hello what do you know lol he screams like my grandson and rings the bell