It's a pet peeve of mine for people to cue their birds verbally for things like "stepping up" and telling their bird "no". Sometimes, because it's just instinctive to us, even I will end up saying no to my bird about something. But, I try REALLY hard never ever ever to tell my birds "no!" because I feel like since it's almost always said in a ...

I absolutely love the videos of Marnie (Thanks, Jenevie!), the blue Indian Ringneck parrot that gives kisses to all the stuffed animals and says, “You’re just so cute!”  It’s a common saying in our household if we ever call one of our birds cute, we follow it up with, “You’re just so cute!” on our best Marley-voice.  For whatever reason I’ve b...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Centralia, WA Pictured: Galah "Bandit" I get asked about my pet galahs A LOT. Pretty much everything you could possibly want to know about them, so I just sort of figured I'd write about some of their antics here. Many people want to get them now as pets, not realizing their still in the cockatoo family, so they'...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Eugene, OR Leaning in for a goodbye kiss: Galah "Bondi"  While touring with Ringling I got the privilege of working with an amazing veterinary technician by the name of Jessica. She was only with us for a few months, but my birds absolutely fell in love with her and she was amazing with them. I was so sad to see ...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Eugene, OR Shown: Bandit's healing toenail growing in I'm so happy to report that Bandit's toe is completely healed. The toe nail is growing in, and is about half way grown (well, okay, maybe a bit less than that...) and has turned the proper color and everything. We're so thrilled, so happy and so relieved.   Pho...

Photo by Dave Womach Location: Hidaglo, TX Smothered with love: Galah "Bandit" I kind of love how unplanned my life can be sometimes. I like going by the seat of my pants, and I love offering that lifestyle to my parrots. It's probably the best thing I can offer them. Everyone knows about my baby boy Bandit, and what an all-star he is when i...