Growing up we always had pets at home. By pets I mean more than the usual, dogs, cats, fish... We had everything you can imagine, both in cages but also running/flying around our various houses: from every single type of bird you can image (parrots, finches, canaries, hummingbirds, robins, chicks, galahs, budgies, a mina, a tucan) to iguanas, chameleons, a snake, turtles, frogs, a porcupine, hamsters and even a monkey at one point.
Since leaving home 6 years ago I'd always missed the company of a pet and now that I am living by myself, I was craving the company of a low-maintenance pet, preferably a bird, who would sing to me in the mornings and keep me company. Last week I had some good friends over for dinner and they brought Lord Percy Percy in lieu of wine. Such a great present, I am taming him in earnest and hopefully within a few weeks he'll be able to fly around and perhaps, if lucky, perch on my shoulder.
