Our Sweet Pea - Sun Conure Rescue

by Brenda
(Belmont, NH USA)

Loves to look out side

It was a little over a year ago that I received a call from a friend who heard about a Sun Conure that was in a bad environment. Just for the record I was not look Sun and a 1 yr old Green Cheek Conure and two Cockatiels and two Society Finches, but much to my surprise this Sun was living in my home town (which I might add is a small town in NH).

So I went there to see this bird and my heart sank right to my knees. In all my life I have never seen anything so terrible. This place was not fit for humans never mind a bird. I won't go into details but lets just say you could hardly have room to walk and stuff was every where.

There in front of the stove on the floor sat this old nasty cage with this bird in the corner with no toys, only one perch and the dirtiest cage I ever seen. My eyes were burning from the smell, I mean tears were running down my face. I paid the person a hundred dollars and ran out with this little guy.

He was abused so bad. The children must have poked him and taunted him because he hates children so bad that he will try to attack them. He is also missing part of a toe. We clipped his wings right away, his feathers were so dull and nasty looking.

He wouldnt let us touch him at all. Now a little over a year later he lives with my other Sun, Sunny and my Green Cheek Pickles. All three are buddies. We can now touch his beak, do the step up command, and give him a bath in a bowl. He looks beautiful, his feathers are a amazing color.

If you cough he will copy you and he loves to dance. The most amazing thing is that he no longer bites. If he is upset with me he will just put pressure on my finger. He has come a long way. I just can not believe that there are people out there that could treat a living creature like that. No matter what happens I shall make sure that Sweat Pea never will live in fear, neglect again.