When the college bound girl tearfully left her “Cuddles” (A nanday conure) with me, it was agreed that it would be just until the end of the term and she had a new home to bring Cuddles to. I never saw her again. I had Cuddles sexed and changes his name to Cutty. He was a bitting, cage bound grouch. I really thought that he would be forced to change if moved into open flying space. Boy was I wrong. He hated the aviary, avoided all the other birds, found a hiding place and escaped the aviary. One day with no food or water and he landed on Jim to get back in the aviary. but he was still not social. So along came Gabby. She is a baby nanday conure, hand raised, loves people and has a minor deformity of her skull. But Cutty and I can’t see it. She is playful and slowly but surely is drawing Cutty out to be more social even if he is still a grouch.
