Cockatiel News 02-19-2005

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Cockatiel News & Information for 02-19-2005

Cockatiel News from Yahoo.com

Hickory Daily Record | I'm a believer. Snakes are fun! (Hickory Daily Record)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com

"I'm a believer. Snakes are fun! I was more than a bit skeptical about using snakes and birds for therapy. I m accustomed to seeing dogs assisting people, and the benefits of having pets are a given."

Mozzie returns to the nest (Bendigo Advertiser)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com

"MOZZIE the cockatiel is safe and sound after his unexpected holiday. The bird, who turns two in May, escaped from the back yard of his Kangaroo Flat home in January, but was recently returned."

Lovebirds on Valentine's Day (BellaOnline)
From: us.rd.yahoo.com

"What is sweeter than candy and a Valentine s heart full of love? The answer to my riddle is a lovebird perhaps the perfect gift for a loved one on Valentine s Day. If the love of your life has been contemplating a bird as a pet, it would certainly be a gift of love."

Cockatiel News from NewTrove

Prescott Newspapers Online
From: NewsTrove.com

""Love cures people, the ones who receive love and the ones who give it." (Karl A. Menniger) Ed and Carolyn Greuling of Paulden, met 13 years ago at a Friday night social. "One Monday morning when I went to work, I told my co-workers, I've met the man I'm going to marry," Review/Diane DeHamer "Mikey" the Cockatiel sits on owner Carolyn Greuling's shoulder. Married for 13 years, Carolyn and Husband Ed are celebrating Valentines Day by being happy to have more time to spend traveling again as Ed recovers from illness. Carolyn said."

Sonya Kimbrell, Features editor
From: NewsTrove.com

"I usually close it quickly and pretend I didn't see it. When I moved to Vicksburg, I had two cats and a bird. I had cared for several kittens and cats, and I considered myself a pro at caring for animals. Little did I know of the nature of birds. Adopting a sun conure into a house with two cats wasn't the smartest thing I've ever done, but it was one of the most educational. Sun conures are beautiful parrots about the size of a cockatiel. They typically have brilliant yellow bodies with orange heads and wings in gradated shades of blue and green. He came into our lives when he was just five weeks old."

East Valley Tribune | Daily Arizona news for Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale
From: NewsTrove.com

"Mozell Bracken Mozell Bracken, 92, of Baker City, died Jan. 31, 2005, at her home with all of her six surviving children at her side. Her funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday at Coles Funeral Home, 1950 Place St. Pastor Bill Cox of McEwen Bible Fellowship will officiate. Vault interment will be at Mount Hope Cemetery. There will be a reception afterward at Community Connection, 2810 Cedar St. Visitations will be until 7 o'clock tonight and Friday from 9 a.m. to noon Friday at the funeral home. Mozell was born at Marion, Ill., on Oct. 20, 1912, to John and Emma Douglas Strobel. She married Edward R. Bracken on Aug. 18, 1929, at Corning, Ark."

Cockatiel Blogs from LiveJournal

From: www.livejournal.com

"I am really puzzled. Last night when we covered Fiona up for bed she was perfectly fine. This morning when I went to give her fresh food and water I noticed that her left eye is closed. It's just closed. No outward signs of irritation (i.e.- it's not red, not swollen, etc) and she doesn't seem to be in any pain. She was functioning pretty normally aside from being a bit skittish when I approached on her "blind" side. She attacked her Avi-Cake and her poop is fine. She doesn't seem to be in any pain. Should I be worried? What could be causing this? Sometimes she gets feathers near/on her eyes but she seems totally unaffected by that, normally. Our 'keet likes to preen her head so he may have injured her, but they are in seperate cages so if that's the case the eye should have been closed last night while they were out playing.

Advice, anecdotes, and encouragement would be welcome!"

From: www.livejournal.com

"UPdate on Wuzo (my female cockatiel)

We brought Wuzo home from the hospital on Tuesday afternoon. With a bottle of baytril she's getting 0.04 and some pro bacterial powder. I'm so fed up with the avian vet Im going to. They still can't find anything wrong with her!!! Well she looks awful. Yesterday I thought she was going to keel over and die!! I was so upset and depressed. I've given her baytril three times now...and today (I'm on my lunch break from work) she looks a little perkier. She's only eating her millet spray...but at least she's eating!! and her poop is solid again. SO I guess whatever it is, is some sort of infection. I've got her in a budgie cage with a heat lamp, in my bathroom (the warmest room of the house). They still arn't being clear with me as to what the "egg like thing" we all felt was/is. *sigh*.

crossposted to cockatiels, parrot_lovers and my own journal"

Awesome Hair Day
From: www.livejournal.com

"
Yes my crest is awesome,
Glowing brightly in the sun.
A tuft like this I'm proud of!
I'll bet you want one too.

I am a handsome Sunshine
Strong and fit and lean.
I like to sing and fly and play
My wings I love to preen.

Couscous and Sunshine sitting together in the morning sun."

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