I’ve had a whole email about Claude, basically asking for an update.
And there is some news, but it’s not great.
Claude was not hand-reared and he was not as young as we had been led to believe when we got him.
And those facts mean that he was untrainable. We made virtually no progress in the 6 weeks that we had him, and the bigger problem with that was that if we couldn’t train him, we couldn’t allow him out of his cage, because we would have no way of getting him back in. And consequently, he wouldn’t be able to fly freely at all, and that’s not right.
We made a few calls and found a local aviary that already has some lovebirds (and a plethora of other birds) who was more than willing to take him in. They won’t be able to train him either, but that doesn’t matter because he won’t have to be kept in a small cage and will have a nice big aviary to fly around in and some other friends to do it with.
So we made the decision to let him go (not like that), and he went to his new home yesterday.
It will take a while for him to settle in, but early indications are that he’ll be very happy there.
