Syzygy reborn?!

I could cry.

My local pet store stopped carrying the food I buy the most.

So I went to the next closest one, which has a better selection (and a better array of birds in general).

They had a baby green cheek.

With the exception of wanting to cuddle inside shirt pockets and things, this baby green cheek - who took to me the instant I walked in and thus I had to ask to let them take him out of the cage...

He's nippy with other clerks but not with me. He will lie backwards on my hand. He will let me scratch his little head. He purred with contentment.

And he's on sale ($40 off).

My current green cheeks, Rusty and Scooter, have their good sides, but neither of them lets me scratch their heads. (Both will perch on my shoulder and Scooter will preen my ear but that's about it.)

Of course, will Rus and Scoot tolerate another GCC? Over 2 years old at this point, they hated the parrotlets and were very jealous and vocal... they weren't as vocal, but they actively chased after Syzygy... I'm thinking, if I bought this new bird, they would react the same.

But I'd swear, this baby really is Syzygy reincarnated. It seems too good to be true. And if such mysticism is real and Syzygy's soul returned, sans the penchant for burrowing under clothing or bedsheets and suffocating and such ...

My heart broke as I wanted to get some more information before making the purchase, but I want to do what's right for all involved.

What are your thoughts, apart from "That dude must be smokin' something."?

Thanks much. :)

was him -- I might do just about anything. (Or that's the DWP talking.)

Think of how your life would be if you didn't buy this little bird -- is there a hole? Would you be sad and always wonder? Well then...

(I am, of course, not suggesting, implying, advocating, or even thinking of bestiality -- YUCK!)

Human, emotional love. We anthropomorphize. Pets do give love -- of course, it's as likely a concept as if this possibility: they just look at us and think "the magical foodgiver has returned. Let me appease him so I can get more food and then bite him because biting is fun!" :D

I do appreciate your reply and I might splurge despite my schedule. Rusty and Scooter are as happy with me as they are each other... but I could buy 50 birds and still not fill that emotional hole. Then again, Syzygy was one of a kind...

Or the breeder that sells these to the pet stores takes great care in making them human-friendly, but then why would that little bird bite everyone except me and let me scratch its neck and lay it upside down when birds, being a prey species, usually need to take time with their beloved human owners beforehand? :)

Maybe I will... a difficult decision, with consequences either way.

And it's $300 I'd otherwise put to a 3.3GHz Xeon processor anyway...

I'll admit it straight out. They're not my "kids"; they are definitely animals on the hierarchy in this household.

But my first dog...he was something else. I didn't love him as a kid, either...I just thought he was really one of a kind and I'd like him back.

And $300 is nothing to throw out the window for a woo-woo feeling...but I've done it before. ;)

Good luck to you, no matter what you choose. :)

I also felt that I found a cat who was a reincarnation of one who had died many years earlier. I adopted him and am very happy with him.

I don't know how your other birds will react but how will you feel if you don't adopt this bird? Do you think you would egret not adopting him? Just a thought.

:hug:

I will likely regret.

The day I found Syzygy dead, I regretted the purchase. For such a similar personality in this new little bird... there is more to life and gaia than logic alone. There are even stories of 2 year old boys knowing detail information of historical events that is not possible (mum told me, twice, about some program she watched.) Ironic that there could be empirical evidence to suggest in a condition one would otherwise classify as "taking a leap of faith".

And yet his personality is so similar, sans the desire to burrow. Maybe if I bought him, and he tries to burrow, that's not Syzygy so he goes back... :crazy:

In matters like this, make sure you think with your heart, as well as your mind.

But my heart will always be true.



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It liked you and it would obviously be happier with you than in the store.

There was a reason that you went to your usual pet store on this particular day, there was a reason you found out they stopped carrying your usual pet food on this particular day, there was a reason you chose to go to that other particular pet store where the lil' GCC was lying in wait for you.

You absolutely MUST get the new little fluffy. It wants you. It was a cosmic plan. :D

(Oh yeah--and I also totally believe in reincarnation for all critters, so I wouldn't be surprised in the least that this is Syzygy again. I say go for it! :hi: )

None of the others were even remotely tame...

At this petco, they had a lot of good food items on clearance too... I'd been there before and saw him staring at me. The other green cheek conure was looking, but this one was STARING. He would follow everywhere.

Yeah, the initial cost will put me back a teensy bit, but I'll spend more time in return working on that iPhone app in tandem with the school homework so I can make back the money, and more, sooner. :D

Do it! :D

That reminds me of when I was thinking of getting a black kitteh. Mr. MG called me at work to tell me there was a black kitteh in one of the pet-adoption-agency cages at PetSmart. I went there on my lunch hour, only to find there were two, in separate cages; I didn't know which one he was talking about. I looked at the first one, and she hissed at me. But the other one stared at me with these huge, round, soulful eyes, and I knew which one was mine. I asked the clerk to take her out of the cage, and she laid on her back in my arms like a baby. When she started playing with my hair like it was a dangling string, I was completely sold.

When the pets belong to you (or, rather, when they have chosen you), it's always quite obvious.

Enjoy your new birdie! :hi:

And sun conures, acrobatic clowns as they are, are $500~$600 and can be VERY loud - not good apartment birds...

At $280, this one's passable.

No Xeon for me... (which would shave 10 seconds off of a 800x600 render anyway (58 to 48 seconds). Extra speed would be nice, but it's not much when all is said and done.)

Just sayin... :D

He likes you. You want him. You'll figure out how to manage the other birds. It's fate. Do it.

I'll always miss Syzygy, but even if it's just folk talk and mythology that a soul is recursive and eternal, which I doubt, there are enough stories out there that don't have neat solutions and it's rare, especially when I was warned up front he nips (and never once did for me!)...

Otherwise, you'll always worry about it.

Scooter can be temperamental but he loves me too...

A third conure would be lovely, and I know he is fond of me, but he does cost a bit... and Syzygy reincarnated or not, I don't know...

And I do have other expenses...

You'll probably regret it if you don't get the bird -- you'll keep thinking about him and wishing you had him. And computers don't love you.