William,
to BP! I loved your introduction. You do have a wonderful flock and other pets in Acworth, Georgia, USA!
By the way, my name is Rita Wien and I live in the Netherlands. So my birth-language is Dutch, not English.
I must say, your large feathered furred and finned family and mine do have several similarities.
And that makes it even more special to me.
You have a female African Grey named Angel. I have a male ongo African Grey named Alex who is a skilled talker.
You have a Blue and Gold Macaw named Baby Jones and a Red Sided Eclectus named Punkin.
Well that's different from my flock.
But I have a female Double Yellow Headed Amazon named Beertje and an Umbrella Cockatoo named Maxi.
The CAG Alex and the U2 Maxi share a cage and they really get along very well.
I'll add a photo at this message that I took of them last fryday-night the 9th. of August!
You have two Sun Conures named Connie and Mango. I have a Jenday Conure named Jopie and a Greencheek Conure named Kiwi. (So we both chose fruitnames for a Conure!
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Then, just like me, you have several small birds. You have a Lineolated Parakeet named Bonnie and a Blue Parrotlet named Belle and several retired breeders, all Pacific Parrotlets.
My first birds were a pair of blue Pacific Parrotlets. They breeded 3 years in a row and every year 1 son hatched. I still have two of these sons, so Pacific Parrotlets (I still am a member of the Dutch Pacific Parrotlet Club) and I also do have several Cockatiels.
You have four dogs a.o. two Chihuahuas named Chi Chi and Timmi. I have two longhaired Chihuahua's named Vicky & Lisa. Vicky is lightbrown and she's Lisa's mother who is blue-merle which is rare for Chihuahua's.
You also have two other dogs, a Malinois named Alek and a Golden Retriever/Chow mix named Joli.
You have one cat named Kitness. I used to have 3 cats named Thijs, King and Trijntje but sadly they all passed away this last two years.
You have a fish tank with African Cichlids. As a child I Always wanted a fishtank and at highschool I took care of the fishtanks together with some others. Cichlids are beautiful. There are so many different Cichlids species.
I've had a large fishtank about 20 years ago, but couldn't keep it.
And you also have a fish pond with koi, goldfish, and a resident snapping turtle.
I have a fishpond too. I really love Koi. I even went to visit Koi-events and shop where they sell them.
My pond just wasn't what really is needed to keep Koi, so I had goldfishes and gold "winde" (that's another breed of fish. I can't find the English treanslation for this breed. And I do have brown frogs and tods in my pond too.
William, I guess you do agree now that our pet-families do have several similarities. Isn't that fantastic!
I look forward to hear from you again. I know you do not have that much time to be active at BP.
That's the same for me.
Greetings from the Netherlands,
Rita