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This is my baby...LOLA...
...a Congo African Grey parrot.







Cindy

Does she enjoy taking a bath?????

She LOVES it!
She goes wild in a few inches of water.

she is the healthiest looking bird I've ever seen !

my cockatiel LOVES being misted with a water bottle. i haven't tried setting him in a pool of water yet though.

Get a shallow bowl and put an inch of water in it...and maybe a toy. Set it on the table with a towel under it. He'll probably get in it!

OH MY the pictures of Lola in the tub are adorable. She looks like quite a clown. I have always wanted a parrot, ah well may be some day.

Be careful what you wish for!
It's like having a two year old...forever!

But, I wouldn't take a million dollars for her!

Cindy

Trent likes to get in his tub then get out and shake water on the dogs as well as me. He will say cold I go over to put a towel around him he shakes water everywhere and laughs. U.P. listen to Cindy be careful what you wish for because they are baby's that never grow up and require constant watching as well as care. And are very messy. If Trent my sun Conure ate half what he waisted he would be too fat to fly. As usual Lola is beautifull Cindy.
Jimmy

ya got any more pics of lola? I just love her! she is SOOOO beautiful! and look at those pretty eyes!

Thank you!

Lola is so cute Cindy! She looks like she could be quite the handful! There is a bird here in one of the pet stores that I am in love with. The feeling is mutual, as whenever I go in she starts hollering until I go to her cage and play with her.The ladies that work there just laugh. She is a rosey breasted cockatoo. I can't afford to buy her though, so we will have to be pet store playmates until she finds a forever home.

Thank you!

She is quite a handful...she's the boss of me!
Oh, I wish you could get that cockatoo...they are such sweet birds. They like to cuddle!

Awwww.... She is so cute.

Does she swear at you?

No, and it's a thousand wonders!
She has said a bad word a few times, but only when I sneeze a few times in a row.

Lola is so cute, but she looks like she could be quite a clown. Do those kind of parrots learn how to talk?

I love birds too, but with my new kitten I guess I better just enjoy all my birds outside.

Have a great day!
patches1414

Hey ShirlS,

Don't those rose-Breasted Cockatoos just tug at your heart? When I had my Cockatiel, Driscol" I used to go to "The Bird Store" here in town to get his food and supplies. They had all kinds of birds there, so I would buy Driscol's food in small amounts, then I had an axcuse to go there more often. Sometimes it took me a couple of hours just to buy food.

Once when I was there they had four rose-Breasted Cockatoo babies for sale and I fell in love with one of them, so I started stopping by there more often. I got to thinking it might be nice to have another bird in the house and they really aren't that big, so they probably don't cost too much. Now, I was seriously considering it, so the next time I was in there and talking to the bird, I causally asked, "How much is this bird?" Oh my gosh, it was $2,500! I about died when I heard that and I couldn't believe it. I figured the huge parrots they had there were probably pretty expensive; BUT, this was SUCH a tiny bird!
The one I liked was the first one someone bought and it didn't take them long to sell the other three. We must have some rich people here in town, but I'm not one of them or I would have had a new bird.

Have a GREAT day!
patches1414

Lola talks extremely well. African Grey's actually know what they are saying, as opposed to mimicking...they have cognitive speech. They have the intellectual capacity of a 5 year old child with the emotions of a 2 year old...so you can probably imagine how demanding Lola is!

Even though most Grey's talk, there are many that never say a word their entire lives. Those that don't talk are just as smart as the ones that do, they just choose not to talk.
Greys are the most sought after of all the parrots because of their capacity to have a vocabulary of over 2000 words, and it's so sad to hear about people who get a Grey for that reason alone then just discard it if it doesn't talk. I would love Lola just as much and have the same relationship with her if she didn't talk as I do now.

Lola didn't talk until she was almost a year old, and I was beginning to think that she wasn't going to...her brother started talking when he was just 4 months old. But, once she started talking she never shut up...literally.

here is our Gabby trying to rearrange our rugs.


here she is laid back on dad watching tv before bedtime


and a kiss for dad goodnight


and here she is out by the pond in her small cage, watching the fish in our pond. she loves it out there.

Cindy, Lola is gorgeous!!! Thanks for posting the great pix of her. I bet she is a clown!

Lola is gorgeous. I love the bath picture too. My zebra finch bathe in their water cup. So cute!

Kyangel Gabby is great too! I love the picture of her lying on her back on 'daddys' chest!

kyangel...
It's nice to hear that you don't leave Gabby in her cage all the time, and she gets a lot of attention...especially after reading the PM you sent me about her previous life. I guess she feels like she's in heaven now!

My daughter called the other day really upset. She had taken my grandson to a motorcycle shop and there was an African Grey in a tiny little cage there, and it was so unhappy it had pulled all it's feathers out. She said it was completely featherless except a few little red feathers on it's tail. It broke her heart to see that.

She said they would start motorcycles up and the poor bird would start screaming and thrashing around in it's cage...it was so scared.

Is there a rescue group she can call?

No...no one in this area cares much about how you treat your pets.

We have no SPCA, Humane Society...nothing.
All we have is a county employee who picks up stray dogs if someone complains about one.

That is just Horrible!! I would have a good mind to go take that poor little thing away from them!! Could you call the Police for animal cruelty?

If I wanted to get that parrot out of there I would have to just try to buy it from them.

I am sure it would not be that much money.. They obviously don't want to care for it!!

I just love the pictures of Lola... Now that is one happy bird baby!!

That is so sad Cindy. Would Lola be able to have a sibling or would it stress her too much?

I'd say it would just about kill her.
She is very spoiled, and I don't think she would like me paying attention to another parrot. But, you never can tell...she might love having a friend.
I just don't know.

i hate it when people mistreat birds. birds need loving just kike all other animals. people tink they can just put them in a cage and leave them. Gabby has a cage that is about 6'x4'x4' with a play land on top, then she has a travel cage too so we can take her with us to grandpa's and iter places too. she loves going to our store and loves riding in the truck. she has her travel cage too so she can go outside with us. and the same for our parakeet, we take both of them with us when we go to our families houses and even just out for a day of fun. they are both spoiled. we are wanting to get another parakeet and hopefully a couple more parrots. to me they are easy to take care of, and we love them. btw, afgreyparrot, where in ky are you?

LOVE the pics of Lola, Cindy! She is such a character!! I was furious to hear about the other parrot in the motorcycle shop.... that person should be shot!

kyangel- Gabby is sweet also! I love the pic of her on "dad's" chest! Too sweet!

I wish Doug would let me have a bird...

Keep the pics coming!

What a gorgeous bird! Those red feathers are amazing!

Lola playing the piano...

How funny! Does she play Rick James?

She plays her own version of "Chopsticks"...
...funny thing is she sings when she's at the piano.
I gotta try to get a video of it one of these days.

That is awesome Cindy. Did you teach her or did she pick up playing on her own?

She is self-taught!
She can even read music...(NOT!)
Here she is finding a song she wants to play...



(...actually, she was trying to chew the song book up) :rolleyes:

This is what she looks like after her bath...

...and this is her Kung Fu pose...

Lola's bath picture is soooo cute!!!

The after bath pic is so cute....she looks like, well a drowned parrot!

Does she sing Kung-Fu Fighting, Cindy?

She is one beautiful bird!

Here's Lola's dishes...
I put them in a regular size plate so you could see how little they are.

Ahhhhhh....how cute is that

She eats good out of a spoon...I put something like mashed sweet potatoes in a spoon and give it to her, and she holds the spoon and eats the taters. She has a little plastic cup she can hold and drink out of...but when she's finished she always dumps whatever's left in it down my back. :rolleyes:

She wants to share with Momma

Her worst idea of "sharing with Momma" is when she tries to feed me...and I won't let her put food in my mouth because I don't want her to get my germs...so she puts it in my ear.

we want pictures of that! not really, but that is just hilarious!

Too funny!! It's a wonder you can hear! What with her "feeding" your ear and all!

Talk about "spuds" in your ear

I was in the check-out at a store awhile back and felt something in my ear...and it was a piece of corn!

Hey! More pics!!!

Lola needs her own vacuum & sponge mop!

That is absolutely hysterical, Cindy!!!

It IS a wonder that you can hear anything!!! LOLA!!!

I keep coming back to Lola's dishes....so cute

You need to get her a child size sweeper, broom, dust pan, whisk broom, mop, etc..
to push around and clean up after herself..

I'm serious too!
I bet she'd like that...

I can only imagine the mess she would make chewing a wisk broom into a million pieces!

Never thought about it that way!!

Lola preening today...

Man Cindy, she is just so pretty.

very pretty!

Cindy I'm in love!! Lola is beautiful!!! And so funny. No wonder you are crazy about her and have so many wonderful stories.

Thanks, ya'll...
I'm so proud of her...so proud of how healthy and pretty she is, and proud because she's my kid!

Night before last when Rachel and Brennan were here to eat, Lola kept begging for Rachel to hold her...and Rachel wouldn't...because she knew Lola was just trying to suck her in so she could bite her and laugh. Rachel said, "No, Lola...I'm not holding you...I don't care if you are my baby sister!" and Brennan said "Is she really your sister?"

That's funny!

That is so cute! She is a very pretty bird Cindy!

Cindy...Lola is awesome! soooo pretty! I just love the pic:-)

That is a really good close up pic of Lola, love the color of her feathers, she is a beauty!

she is......I cannot wait to meet her;-) and I am sure i will....Right Cindy....lol???( )

Sounds like a trip happening Angie!!

Where you at, Angie???
I'm waiting!

You flying or driving?

Maybe she's on her way and thats why you cant find her!!!

love the pictures of Lola and Gabby. We don't have a parrot rescue here in Virginia either but there is one in Maryland. If I can a car I'd have one of the rescued birds by now. But without transportation there is no way I can go up there and do the volunteer work necessary to earn a bird. Maybe next year. I'm sure they probably have a bird about my age that I could have as a companion.