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 I bought my first couple of baby parrots several weeks ago.
They are so lovely with golden heads, green backs, black green wings, gray claws, red mouths, beautiful features and nice voices. They looked as same as the little parrots on the left picture on this page.
Every morning as soon as I got up, the first thing I did was to look at them, to clean their boxes of food and water, to add food, to change clean water for them, to hang up their cages out of the veranda. Every night, the last thing I did was to look at them and to move them into my veranda, put down the curtain of the veranda, to prevent them from a cat or the cold air in the night. My clean lady cleaned their cage every business day. I do that in person on the weekend.
Both of them brought my home so much alive breathe, delight emotion and many smiles. I loved them and fed them as my "little babies". I did wish that they would grow up healthily and happily. Even, I had read something to learn how to raise them...
However, last Thursday night, as usual, as soon as I came back home, I went to look at my "little baby birds", but, they were not there already. With an opened door, what I saw was an empty cage. My cleaning lady forgot to close the door, so that they have flied away or they have been eaten by a cat...
 I did not complain my cleaning lady one word. But, I was really sad in my heart for my little birds.
I am so sorry for I had not taken any photos for them yet, I thought I would have much time to do that. I am so sorry for I had not let them taste any sunflower seeds yet, I had no had time to buy it yet. I am so sorry for they are still so young and I am not sure whether they would have ability to look after themselves.
Then on Friday morning, no matter I was walking on the street, or I was working in my office and at home, as soon as I heard the beautiful songs of a parrot, I would like to look at the direction of the sound and to think whether they are just my little parrots? As soon as I looked at the empty cage, I wanted to know where they were? How were they? Could they look after themselves to eat, to drink, to live in the nature independently?
Now, one week has past,I do wish that they are still alive in the world. I do hope someday they will fly back home. So, I had been opening the door of their cage until my former colleague bought second a couple of parrots for me. Then my new music teacher gave me the third parrots ? her dog wanted to eat them often, so that she wanted to send them to me.
I have had 6 birds ( 4 parrots, and 2 the other birds) already. But, I still often think of my first lovely two parrots. I do wish that they are living happily somewhere with their beautiful songs. I am looking forward someday, they still remember the road come back home and to come back to visit their new little buddies...
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Shirley
Written and Edited on Thursday, Dec13, 2007
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