I'm sorry that I haven't been more active in this forum! I'm a little bit all over the internet, so sometimes I forget where I have been and what to update!

This forum has been an invaluable resource to me when dealing with our twice adopted, now home forever quaker--Guppy. In a quick run down for those of you who aren't familiar, we're Guppy's third and final owners. The first person who owned him for the first year of this life, we don't know anything about. The second was a lady who admitted she lied to us: that he wasn't trained to get up on a perch at all, and that out of the three years she owned him, the last two were spent entirely in his cage. She said he was very "bitey" and "aggressive."

We got him early September. We could not handle him at all when we got him, I have the 27 some odd scars on my hand to prove it. Eventually, we moved from bleeding every time, to occasional and lots and lots of bruising.

So here is a short cell phone video of guppy today:

There is ALWAYS Hope (Click to watch on YouTube)

For those of you in tears (I've been there), frustrated, (been there, still am a lot) and about ready to give in the towel: don't. They may not ever come around and be the bird that sits on your shoulder, cooing into your ear--but they WILL learn. They will love you. The scars, the bleeding, the bruising, the pinching, the screaming and squawking? It'll be worth it someday. Hang in there with me.

Awwww...what a sweetie! So glad he found a forever home with you! He's a beautiful quaker! Congrats on your progress!

Awwwwwwwwwwww nice to read stories with happy endings....

WAY TO GO! What a sweetheart ... you've done an amazing job and thanks for spreading the word and encouraging others.

Jen

What a great job you have done!

That is so sweet! Don't you love the way he shuts his little eyes when you stroke his head? Just melts your heart. Patience won in the end. He's a lucky little bird and it sounds like he was due for some luck, poor baby.

Congratulations!!!!

EXCELLENT JOB!!!!!!!! It take a special person like you to turn a QP around!!!!!