My first bird was a cockatiel - she was given to me for my first Christmas ;D She was a standard pearl. She died when I was 9, we just found her on the bottom of the cage. Then we got Coco and Peekaboo, Moose's parents, and bred them. At one point we had about 15 tiels. From there, we moved on to cockatoos and it went on from there! Here's a pic of Snoopy!

 

That's adorable Jenny! So sad she died though

 

My first bird was a budgie wet to a store asked for a light blue and hey gave me a darker blue but I liked him anyways then a few years later I got him a buddy only had his buddy a short time because he died from getting his head stuck in a rope toy string then a few weeks later I got him another budgie then a few years later my first one died then I had to get the other a buddy and it's new buddy died a few weeks later due to a heat attack all the birds I ever got came from the same store which is a horrible store then got him a new buddy named Piper(still have her) then the male died with six other due to being starved because I was away and asked my mom to feed them she never did and that's how they ended up dying the I had 12 at the time only 5 came out alive my five originals
Piper,Boney which was on the egde of starvating but pulled through,Cricket,****** and Chewy. All 5 originals are almost all 4 and 5 years old this happened in 2007.

 

It's a shame they all died I rehomed all of my old birds and I think Paulie is still alive but hey you never know.

How come all of your budgies kept dying? Were the only ones dying coming from that one place?

 

They all came from the same place this store gets 200 unweaned baby budgies every few weeks they all look sick half them cant even perch they tried breeding parrotlets themselves the chicks were so plucked I think they died there puppies are diseased
I once got a lovebrid their it died 4 days later my mom bought a puppy their it died a week later I've bought a cockatiel their ended up having gardia I had to treat him. I bought numerous budgies their none of them making to a year they have tropical fish which float dead In The tank this stores been introuble for numerous stuff like reptile abuse and puppies coming from puppymills but it's still open. That's why I buy my birds from petco petsmart and pets supplies plus there birds are well cared for.

 

That's horrible!

Why did you keep going back and buying more then?

 

If I don't buy them who will save them?

 

Hmm I sometimes think like that but the problem is either way they die, so we don't really save them

 

Not all of them die I still have 5 or more that came from that store Alfee being one of them.

 

Oh that's fair enough then. Were all the birds kept in one cage? Or too many in them? Diseases may have spread to the ones you bought that died. I hope your others are good though!

 

I actually have a pic that I snuck in I'll have to find it an post it so you can see the over packed ness.

 

Oooo okay then!

 

This is just their budgies

Next time I plan on sneaking a video

 

This is just their budgies

I remember you posting that on TC or TB that is a total disgrace having so many birds in one cage just report them every day till they eventually do something.

My first bird which is my first pet is tweety pie my budgie i loved him so much
i was 8 when i got him, he was very tame. I come in from school and called him and he would fly to me and stayed with me all the time :lovehearts:
My grandad was having work done to the house and he made the work men a cup of tea and tweety pie flew out , many of times door had been open and he wouldn't budge.

 

Oh my gosh! That's horrific! Why don't you report it to somebody? There's so many in one place

 

They been reported like 3 times it don't do nothing.

 

That's ridiculous! Do they sell other birds?

 

Yeah they sell plucked finches lovebirds ringnecks,doves parrotlets cockatiels one time they were trying to sell and African grey in a cockatiel size cage. Conures and Think that's about it besides Alexandreas.

 

My first bird was a cobalt budgie named Rosco. We got him from Pet Supplies Plus when I was around ten years old. I knew a few other people who had cockatiels, and they told me how great their birds were, so I wanted to own one, too. I did some research and my parents took my to Pet Supplies Plus to buy him. He was so sweet and so beautiful.

Less than a year later, seeing as my parents wouldn't let me get anymore birds, I convinced my little brother that he should get one, so he asked my parents and they let him buy one. I "helped" him pick one out, and then I convinced him to put Lola in Rosco's cage. My brother gave up on caring for her and trying to buy Lola her own cage, so she pretty much became mine. Hehe. (That was evil. )

The more research I did and the more time I spent with my birds, so more I began loving them. So it just shot on from there.

 

Awesome Abby !

 

Wow...that really stinks....But the problem with buying more birds and pets from that store you're encouraging them and keeping them in business. I no longer buy pets from pet stores, at least not birds and dogs, because I know where they come from. (Mills) And it's not just that store, it's a lot of major pet stores as well.

 

I haven't bought a bird from their in months that store isn't a big store either like petco or pet smart which I buy some of mine from their and their healthy.

 

What are these mills?

 

They are horrible places where birds are put in tiny, unsanitary cages and are just there so they can breed and so the people running the places can make money of the babies. Most of those big pet stores buy their birds from mills. It is just like puppy mills, just for birds. It is really awful.

 

I didn't even know about puppy mills

 

They are horrible....just plain horrible......

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb-VzeVA1ZE"]YouTube - "Be Our Voice" by Irena Schulz[/nomedia]
This video is sad. I'm not sure if the clips in these videos are from actual bird mills or not, but that gives you a bit of an idea what the conditions are at bird mills. They are horrible. You might want to look up puppy mills as well.

After seeing clips of these bird mills in several different places, I really want to put a stop to them. It's sort of a cause I've found. It just breaks my heart...

Okay, after reading the description under this video, I see where the clips come from. It will tell you more.

 

My fist bird was savannah(still alive) and she is from a petstore thats small and family owned that watched me grow up.They arent the best but they take care of the birds and know everything about them this is savannah(blue n white.)soon later we got her a bud tatertot(yellowish)

 

n'awwwh!

And Abby those places are revolting

 

They are. The line that breaks my heart in that song is, "You throw me some food, you must know I'm here."

 

My first bird was Sammy (in my signature). Then my sister got a budgie, Claire, who died after a couple months Then my sister wanted another budgie, so she got Mitsy (in my siggy) who she later gave up on. So Mitsy is mine now

Then I got Vanity (conure), then Pumpernickel (RIP), and then Biscotti (in my siggy).

 

And what kind of conure is Vanity, Bethany?

 

Jenday I love the name Vanity

 

My Sun looks like a Jenday right now. It hasn't had its first molt, obviously.