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Why you ask, well we just have so much on the go here! Lou is now
making Jo her very own Shop for Healthy Bird. Business is
excellent (thanks to all you wonderful folks) and it's high time to
expand. We will be posting pictures as things progress you can be
sure. Jo is pretty, pretty excited. We even have one of our
great friends coming down to paint a bird mural of sorts for us.
Originally it was "supposed" to be painted on the walls, but that sort
of got changed when we have decided to do all pine walls and ceilings.
Keeps in tune with our house!
This is one of the new play stands Jo will be
stocking. Please note we will have in stock some with the perches
in three colours (blue, green, purple) and some with all perches a
different colour. (there are eight perches in all on the stands)
It just happens to be pictured all of one colour. Place to hang
toys, swing, grill, wheels,
26 x 29 x 52, (the top perch is 1 1/2 inch and the rungs up are 1 inch
diameter) all for just $199.95. Watch for many more opening
specials and many new products to be announced when the "dust" is
settled!
Arbie and Muffin, who Jo now has parked beside her desk are
just a delight and too funny. Arbie is quite the chatter and chats
non-stop all day long. Jo made the mistake of telling him he was
her "Stinker Boy". Well he put it all together and now tells Jo "Arbie
is a good, good stinker boy"! Laugh OMG he is just too funny.
His latest phase this week is "I Love you"
Our Jardines arrived, but very unfortunately Jo will not be keeping
them. We have had testing done and determined the exporters sent
relatives. We do have Karlotta and Rascal coming soon, but we are
keeping this as a surprise until we can show pictures!! Suffice to
say Jo is also pretty excited about these two!
We do have much more news, but quite honestly JO has to leave for now
...............Lou is yelling for help and babies to feed
...........................I guess she should hop to it!!
Here is Molly guarding her Jolly Ball.... Does she ever like it
Thanks Joanne
Susan
Ps she has learned the first line to "old MacDonal" what a hoot
I was down to visit
Poppy (AKA Popeye) today. He is getting really spoiled. My
sister Anne has fallen in love with him. Mom says it's just
like having a toddler in the house. He has a new cage which
he does not like to stay in. He prefers to have the run of
the house. He loves jewelery and has very good taste, he
like emeralds and saphires the best and gold after that.
Anne and her husband own a jewelery store, I think they
should take Poppy in there for the day he would have a ball.
Dad is great. My
sisters can't beleive how much better he looks, just like
his old self. Poppy has been just wonderful for him. They
have become very attached to each other.
Here
are some pictures for you. He is enjoying a cherry tomato in
#3. He likes to share your lunch. I was eating my salad
today and turned around for a second and he jumped right in
literally.
Chubber has not changed and still LOVES food!! Just jumps in
and helps himself, Dad's too slow and can't get it out fast enough for
him! Jo may have been in a mess Easter Weekend putting away
orders of product, but Dave and Jennifer sure knew how to make her day
with this wonderful bouquet of flowers
 
Wed 5/3/2006 8:43 AM
Hi Joanne
I got your seed a few weeks ago, so I thought i'd send you a thank
you/update on Kalliope email. She is doing great! She went through a bit
of a molt last week so there were feathers everywhere, but she stayed
the happy bird that she always is. Spring hasn't really affected her
mood, she still only sometimes bites when she knows she is going back to
the cage, but I just scoop her up and put her back in. It looks like she
is getting new feathers on her head too because she has these little
plastic like things coming up. I'm assuming they are casing for the new
feathers. And she can whistle now! She has two different whistles she
does.
Anyways, just wanted to thank you again for the awesome friend! I've
attached a picture of us.
Peter
  
Arbie here in his favorite spot as of late!
   
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 Favien's
little sister above pictured with Marvin. As you can see in the
clipping he has also won 3rd place at the annual Speech
Competition. Be
Proud Favien, you did an excellent Speech.
FAVIEN Grade 4 SPEECH
DRAFT COPY
MARVIN
What has brown
eyes, green feathers, and a yellow spot? Mrs. King and fellow
classmates, if you guessed Marvin, you’re right. We should start at the
very beginning. It all started one morning when I came downstairs to
see Pickle our last bird laying in my brother’s hands. I asked him if
he was dead. I was told no but that he was really sick. After a few
minutes my Mom was on the line with the bird’s breeder, Joanne. She
told us that Gatorade would help. My Mom went to the grocery store to
buy some. By the time my Mom got home it was too late.
One year later, my Mom was going to the
airport to pick up Marvin. Imagine that Marvin flew in via Air Canada
all the way from New Brunswick. We had such a hard time naming him.
Nothing seemed to fit just right. The problem was this little fleck of
yellow feathers on the top of his head. Then one day we were at the
flower store and saw mud flaps on a truck. The mud flaps had Marvin the
Martian on them. It was perfect. We all love Marvin the Martian and
our bird was rather silly and had a yellow fleck on the top of his head
just like Marvin the Martian’s Roman Centurion Helmet.
As Marvin got older we noticed that he
has a yellow spot on his back that was getting more noticeable. Now he
had two spots of yellow. His feathers are green with black spots. He
is really pretty.
Why is he always getting out of his
cage? I don’t know but he is a real pain to catch when he doesn’t want
back in his cage. We catch him and put him back in his cage and after
awhile he comes back out. Trynity my little sister figured out how to
open up the cage and I think Marvin liked it.
Marvin loves his happy hut. What is a
happy hut and where does it come from, you ask. A happy hut is a little
bird tent. It is made of fabric with cut up plastic placemats inside to
make the bottom stronger. It is a triangular prism and hangs from the
top of his cage with ribbon. Marvin loves to sleep in his Happy Hut.
In the winter he also stays warm there as some of his happy huts are
made out of fuzzy fabric.
Marvin in a Linnonated Parroket. We
call him a Linnie for short. This means that not only is he friendly
but he can learn to talk. I read to him quite often hoping that he will
pick up more words. So far he can say ‘Step up’. He laughs and makes
kissing noises. When he says step up it means that he wants out of his
cage to play.
Marvin has two cages. One cage is
downstairs and the other is in my room. Every night I take him out of
the cage downstairs and play with him and then put him in the cage in my
room. It is his bedtime cage. We also use this cage when we are
painting or cleaning the oven as the fumes could kill him.
Marvin eats seeds, bird pellets and has
fresh water everyday. He sometimes gets treats of fruit, a honey stick,
soaked seed, or rice. Marvin is very curious. One morning I caught him
sticking his head in my Mom’s yogurt and eating it.
Marvin has started biting. So he is
grounded. Now when he tries to bite we can’t take our hand away. This
is very hard to do. I put on my old soccer gloves. Then when he tries
to nip me I tell him that he is a bad bird and blow into his face. We
have been doing this for a week and he is already getting better.
Joanne says that it might take a month. He is doing this because it is
that time of the year for birds to be grumpy and when you move your hand
away from him he has control and thinks that he is the boss. We need to
teach him that we are the boss.
Marvin is my bird and he is the best.
FAVIEN
AND MARVIN
  
Hi Joanne
Thank you so much for the Jolly
ball thought I would send a few pics of them enjoying it. Feel free
to use them on your site if they are any good...just to show they
are just for birds!! lol Brandy said any email would work so I hope
you get these! I will try to get the rats in it too. I was
wondering if I ordered an 8 inch for the rats can you customize it
with just wood. I want to do an order probably at the end of the
month maybe sooner I will let you know. Thanks
Shannon
MILLY in her new Jolly
Ball having a blast!
JET AND JADE - Proud Parronts
Hi Joanne!
I was just thinking...
Raising baby birds is no monkey business! It's HARD!!!
I must take my hat off for you! Why? Because you do a wonderful job in
raising sweet tame birds! Not only they've got their own personality,
but they are quite smart guys. Their body language (when adult) tells
us so much, but it takes a loving and patient heart like yours to
connect bird and human world!
Wow! It makes a whole world of difference!
Thank you so much for all your help, patience, love and care!
By the way, the first baby took a big flight but it is still very clumsy
at aiming on a landing spot!
Thanks a bunch!
Daniela, Jade, Jet, #1, #2, #3 and #4.
 
It's a football!!
Little Blue above here taking charge of two little olive linnies.
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