It took weeks to raise the money to save the sick bird and in the process I noticed the people HATED Joey and I feared for him. My macaw came from this place and they'd hit him for being "mean". One day I checked in on them and Joey climbed on my & hid his face in the crease of my arm. I asked what was wrong and he looked up at me. His beak was badly cracked. I got him out of that place too. Vet wasn't sure his beak would totally heal but it did. The other bird lived too and was later adopted out. Joey never lost his anger towards people. He would only go to me and one of my friends. She died a few years ago from cancer..so it was just me.
Every morning he'd tell me Hello and ask for "Crack" which was his peanut butter crackers. When on the phone if I was repeating numbers to someone he'd throw out random numbers at me. If I were on the phone with my friend Pam he'd constantly yell "Mommyyyy" like Stewy from Family Guy. I never saw the show so he must have picked it up from the commercials.
He had quite the vocabulary it was obvious he had previously lived with a man...if one of the other animals annoyed him he'd say, "I'm gonna kick your ass!" If I told him not to do something he'd blow a raspberry and laugh.
His first day with me he wanted held and asked for a kiss. "Gimme a kiss" so I went to kiss him..he put his beak on my lips and made a farting sound and laughed. Yeah he had a man in his life at some point.
He'd yell "Joey sing!" and then do the Andy Griffith theme whistle.
The other morning I came home & found him struggling..making awful sounds. I called the vet. She got me in right away. He was dying & I put him to sleep. I held him and told him I loved him as he took his final breath.
He trusted me from the moment he saw me. Wish I could have saved him. Even among the chatter of the other two birds...there is a void left by Joey. I miss his voice...he called me mommy...
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