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I'm pretty new at this, having only had my birdie for about 2 months but when I got Pixel something clicked.
One of my co-workers had a lovebird fly onto her balcony this fall and asked if I wanted it since she had a budgie and they did not get along. I thought it might be fun but I never thought my boyfriend would go for it, and I was right. He didn't. That lovebird has a wonderful home now with my co-workers friends. After that I had been thinking about birds from time to time, even doing some research on the internet on what kind of bird I would actually want. I was looking at a friend's facebook profile and there were pictures of her playing with a lovebird. I showed the pics to my boyfriend and his response was "Cute! Do you want one?" I got very excited and of course I wanted one! I spent that whole night looking at pictures and reading up on lovebirds, budgies and cockatiels to try to decide what I wanted, I even watched videos to get a feeling of their noise level. I ended up choosing to get a lovebird mostly because of their looks and also because they're not as common as budgies and tiels where I live. And when your heart decides something there's no way you can change that! The next day I started to check on availability in my area, there was a waiting list for babies but I could get an older one from a petshop. I decided to check on this little shop that also breeds a couple of types of birds and handfeeds the babies and has a really good reputation. I checked on they're website that night and there was a 1 year old blue black masked lovebird for sale because of the owner's allergies. I got so excited and the next day we went there to have a look. And there he sat, alone in his cage, the most beautiful face I had ever seen, and I knew right there that he was mine!!
I later found out that he had only been for sale for one day. So the same day the previous owner decided it was time to let her baby go I was deciding to get one!
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