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If he is the schools bird, how long do you think it will be before you get a handraised baby of your own I've actually been trying to figure out how I'm going to convince the school to let me adopt him. All of our animals have to be fostered by the students over the summer and I really want to take...

Thanks for all the nice welcomes!

Cats- I haven't really narrowed it down for sure yet, but it did occur to me yesterday that I could work for an avian vet. Now I know I'm really hooked.

No he doesn't talk yet. He just does cat call whistles. I keep telling him to "gimme kisses" hoping he'll repeat it back, but nothing yet. It's funny, when I repeat it over and over, he'll hold really still and look at me intently. Like he's trying to figure out what I'm saying. Maybe he's...

Oops. You beat me to the post. I'm in California.

Hi Angie! Thanks for the welcome. His name is actually Sunny. Chick is just one of my nicknames. My real name is Tami, by the way. You're right, they are irresistable little creatures. I'll work on taking some more photos of him so I can share them. I posted a video of him in the video thread if you...

Some of you may have already stumbled across this video on YouTube, but here it is again if you haven't seen it. It's Sunny, our school bird, doing his dance. Apparently he's trying to feed me or my watch. Whatever he's doing, it cracks me up every time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f9ctzlpoM8

I am brand new to the bird world, so I hope you'll be able to forgive my complete ignorance when it comes to birds. To tell the truth, I actually strongly disliked birds about a month ago. But then I got involved with an IRN. I'm a vet tech student and we have an IRN at our school. Since I didn't li...