Here are some pictures sent to me this morning by my vet.. I think he is adorable...

The vet said he was 1-2 years of age, and he is the sweetest thing.

what a cutie ...now make sure you always treat MATER as top bird as there will be a pecking order and you don`t want him to resent Elvis and be come jealous..open his cage first say hello first pick him up first offer treats first ..lol..
Good Luck and Congratulations ....

I will thank you, I am getting so excited about getting him home...

Awww! I'm sure Mater will let Elvis know who's top bird. Clyde certainly has left no doubt in Jade's mind that HE is the Grand Poobah around here. Hubby sometimes opens Jade's cage first and she gets uncovered first in the morning because she's the first one up, but Clyde knows he's No. 1 and insists on it. You'll be fine. When does Elvis come home?

how sweet

Tomorrow morning I go an pick him up at 10!! I spent the name makeing sure there was enough room for him in my office so that I can keep him there there first month then after that I'll move him in by Mater and Shylo and IKE I know he is healthy but don't want to take a chance. My ver said he was healthy, but I want to play it safe for now..
Cindy

Wait ... you have a squirrel??? How groovy is that? We had a couple of nearly-tame ones outdoors who would take a cookie from our hands (or, in one case, come right up to the deck and order us to go inside and get him a cookie ), but they weren't really "ours." I want to know about yours. Does he live inside with you? Where'd you get him?

Last Year when Hurricane IKE came thru, I live in Baytown, Texas a suburb of Houston, Texas we werent expecting to have anything left. no house nothing, and when we came home we were one of the fortunate one to have a home left and minimal damage. My husband was helping our land lord clean up around the mobile home park we live in and he went to cut a tree off a house and there sit LITTLE IKE as we call him. He was so scared and very hungry.. My husband called my cell and asked" Honey we have hope everything is going to be ok, I found a baby squirell and he needs a temp home I told my husband to bring him home poor little thing lived in a Plastic box for 21 days and I was finaly able to get him a cage at that time, we didn't have no electric, and we made it thru the worse of it. So after that he grew stronger and tamer we played with him everyday and he got to where we were the only parents he knew.
So I had went to the gro. store one afternoon and when I came home Ike was laying in the bottom of his cage and I noticed Blood was comeing from his tail, my cat got ahold of him..
We were planning on turning him loose thanksgiving weekend but when we seen that his tail was hurt and he wouldn't let no one touch him except myself and my husband we decided that there would be no way he could survive out side... IKE has the run of the house during the day, he play up high so the cats won't chase him and if they do he is bigger now and he will chase back or bite their noses.. And he became part of our family... He will never have to worry about food, shelter from the cold, or getting ran over..
That is how IKE came to live with us..
His real name is : IKE HURRICANE DENNIS our youngest son named him..
He is very tame and is very spoiled. Just like the other critters..
The wild squirells know there is always food on the trees from them and water in a tub for them and they have a safe place to come too I have 6 nests in my tree's that I made and put up so they all come here to stay. Its nothing to see 10 squirells around here at any time..
Ike is a sweet heart, he and my husband will lay in the middle of the floor and wrestle... gently on my husbands part.. Kind of rough on IKE's part LOL

I was going to ask about the squirrel, thanks for sharing.

That is one thing I love to talk about is my babies whether they are my human children or the fur babies. Ike is a very special lil boy to me, he survived a storm that could have taken everything from us..
I often tell my children if they acted half as good as my fur babies, from the squirell to my dog I wouldn't have to worry so much.LOL

Elvis is a cutie, I'm sure he can't wait to get out of that cage! What a wonderful story about Ike, thank you for sharing it! I always love having squirrels around my house, my neighbors don't agree with that so much though

Neither does mine. But ya know you would be surprise at how many people that come to your house will ultimately not listen.. Especially when you tell them" DON"T STICK YOUR FINGER INSIDE THE CAGE HE WILL BITE"
Well 90% will get tehir finger bit.. and IKE will draw blood..
Ok Folks I am headed to go get my new baby.. Will report back in when I get back
Cindy

Ok well I went to get Elvis this morning and he such a beautiful baby..
I got over there and to my suprise he is cage agressive any sugestions would be very appreiciative (sp)...
His cage that they sent him home with was the most disgusting thing I have ever seen in my freaking life.. He had green stuff growing out of his pan, and the poo was i know and inch deep..
I spent an hour cleaning it and I had to go get him new toys those were disgusting..
I literally wanted to slap the dog snot out of these people for letting him live this way.
IT peeved me off to no end...
Any advice on how to get him out of his agessiveness?
I literally wanted to cry when I seen how they makeing this baby live....
Why do people treat them like this??

Poor Elvis won't know what hit him when you get through! A clean cage and new toys and a loving home (with a squirrel for a sibling, ). He's going to be VERY confused.

I hate to see people treating their animals like that, too. Makes me want to throttle them. He's probably cage aggressive because that's all he had that was his own and his only place of security, even if it was disgusting and filthy.

Jade was VERY cage aggressive when she first came and while she still wants us to understand that's HER cage and HER toys and HER stuff (and we respect that or bleed, ), she's much improved. Don't poke around his stuff any more than you can help. Talk to him while you're changing his paper and filling up his food and water and tell him what you're doing. I tell Jade, "Maid service!" when I work on her cage and while she watches me VERY carefully, she doesn't peck me anymore when I clean or even when I do something like take a perch out to scrub it. She's used to the routine now. Sometimes for fun she'll grab the edge of the newspaper and play tug of war with me when I'm cleaning, but that's just a game.

The way we got to that point was I took a few nasty bites at first. I had bruises on my arms and hands! But I didn't let it stop me and I just pretended she wasn't hurting me (though inside I was going "YOWCH!!!") and went on cleaning and changing food and talking to her as if having her try to eat me was perfectly normal. It really didn't take very long, maybe a week or two -- and maybe my brain has mercifully clouded my recollection -- and she figured out what was what and we've been fine ever since.

Don't try to dig him out of his cage. Just open the door and let him come out when and if he wants to. Trust me, he'll want to eventually. Bribe him with a treat if you have to. But reaching in and trying to force him to come out will just make him worse. The important thing right now is that he feels safe with you and learns to trust you. Letting him have his space in his cage as his own territory will help him do that.