RICO & SPARKY

This is Rico and Sparky.

This is what we know about them:

Rico and Sparky came to us from an animal control surrender. They are each 13 years old and bonded. Sparky, the Sun Conure has a wing deformity of an unknown cause. The injury/deformity is not life threatening, and will not impact her day to day activities.

Both like to hang with their humans, and are eager to play and get scratches and hang out for treats.

Each has laid eggs in the past, but we’ve had them through a breed season with no eggs or issues - so if appropriate handling is done and they are not provided with breeding materials or an environment that promotes hormonal behavior such as boxes to shred and sit in etc., it’s pretty easy to mitigate egg laying.

Age: 13 & 13

Sex: Both female

Prefers: Males or Females? Not sure it matters

Other Bird Aggressive? No.

Cage Aggressive? No.

Adoption Fee: $600 for the pair.

Cage Available: Affordable used cages available to purchase starting at $100.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
Sparky may get arthritis later in life, so you’ll want to monitor that for pain, but an easy way to mitigate that is to use Christine’s Chop Shop anti-inflammatory blend which will sprinkle on their food and will keep that at bay for longer.

***Information that is universal to every bird:

1) Birds are typically not family animals. They usually choose a favorite and at best you can expect them to tolerate everyone else.

2) Birds are not great with kids, dogs, other birds, and are not cuddly with everyone, nor can they really be trained to be. Birds are flock animals, who are social creatures that need to be in a communal area where they can see the rest of the family, or you may eperience serious vocalization and behavior problems. We’ve never met a bird who is great with kids, but we have met kids who are respectful of birds.

3) Birds bite. But, you shouldn’t “take the bite”. If you’re getting bit, you haven’t earned the trust of the bird, and are pushing the bird past his/her limits. You must figure out what the bird needs, and make what you’re asking of the bird more attractive than what they are already doing.

4) Birds are not “dominance” based creatures. Your only option for birds is to earn their trust. If they are, say…on top of a cage and don’t want to come down, that is where they feel safest, not a dominance thing. They are not trying to exert dominance, they just don’t want to come down. Your job as a parrot owner is to figure out what you can do to help them trust you, and whatever you are asking to be more attractive than what they are already doing.

5) NEVER send money over the internet for adoption with any individual or organization for the adoption of an animal you have not met in person. That is almost always a scam.