My son got Fang his senior year of college. In the spring he brought Fang to me, because he was going to be gone for spring break and neither he nor his room mates would be home. Fang lived with me for 7 years from 1995 through 2002. That is when I sent him to my son...
My dogs sure are teaching me a lot. Rudy, the dog that joined our family just about a year ago is part yellow lab and part white German Shepard. He is pure white and his heart is pure also. He was shot as a puppy and we paid a lot of money to have his jaw fixed and to...
“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.” (Rom 15:7 NIV) “Blue-headed Pionus are boring. They kind of just sit there and do nothing all day!” Hum. Doesn’t sound too encouraging, does it? Especially coming from several...
My family and I were busy preparing for our annual vacation. We would be gone for nearly a month this year, and though we weren’t leaving for another 2½ weeks, we were already packing the trailer, stocking the food, preparing the maps, and a host of other things that...
After two early false starts, our pair of Lineolated Parakeets, Splash and Chine, finally came of breeding age. No longer did we discourage them from nesting—not that it had done any good when we DID try to discourage them!—and it didn’t take them long to find the...
"Jesus once again addressed them: 'I am the world's Light.'" (John 8:12 MSG) Years ago, I had a kitten that I loved. It was so much fun to watch her. When we threw a candy wrapper across the room, she would bring it back to us. The game could go on all...
As I started down the steps of the animal hospital, I could no longer restrain my tears. “Why?” screamed my head. “Why are you crying over a little bird? You should be thankful that it’s not one of your children you just admitted to hospital!” Good point, but the...
"Be still and know that I am God . . ." (Ps. 46:10a) Recently I was blessed with the privilege of caring for my family's 13 birds. Since this was my first experience with such a lot of them, and since one of their birds had died the previous year under the care...
This story actually began about a couple of months before we left on our vacation. Four Lineolated Parakeets (linnies) in New Brunswick were being bullied by a larger parrot. The two males had already lost toes, and one of them was missing a large chunk of his beak....
On one of my many trips home, I was flagged down at a 'drive and revive' stop point. I was handed a cup of tea through my open window and the gentleman who gave it to me asked courteously, "Where are you going, Ma'am?" My thank-you smile broadened, "I'm going home!" I...