Why did you get a parrot? Is it because you just like parrots or you like a certain amount of animals and own those.I got a parrot(s) because I like them I have always wanted one and started off with budgies.I like them better than any other pet including dogs I think theyre great pets you can play and have fun with and they make you laugh all the time.

I have no idea what made me want a bird. I started off with my first bird, a budgie hen named Jail Bird.


I fell in love with her, and then I adopted my neighbor's lovebird, Teak. They became best friends, but JB died from a prolaspe and Teak became very sad. So I got another budgie, Beck. Then I got Beck a friend, Mack. Mack turned out to be Mackenzie and she was a terror and almost killed Beck, so I gave her away.

Then I adopted Beaker for Christmas, and around this time, Teak suddenly died, and then I got Jaid for my birthday in October that same year and then got Poppy as a friend for Beck in February.

I don't know what drove me to get my first bird, but then it kind of became a chain reaction after that.

My mom's always had parrots (mainly cockatiels and budgies, but there's also Dudley, our pionus), so I basically grew up around them. When I got Lucy, I actually wanted something different. Something I've never had before. Though it's funny how thing's turn out, huh?

I am glad I have her though. She's such a character!

I got a budgie because I had one when I was growing up, and I loved him. He was a great bird and talked a lot.

One budgie in a cage looked lonely, though, so I got him a friend a week later. They were kind of hard to tame. I wanted a friendly bird, so I got a cockatiel (Emma). She is a strictly "hands-off" bird. So, I got Silver. He is p e r f e c t! He is so friendly and playful with me. So, now I have four birds. I love watching them.

My husband brought home 2 cockatiels that somebody at his work couldn't keep. He never asked if I didn't mind. One of them had a great personality so we fell in love. Soon I became very involved

Rio squished through the cage bars of Tiko's cage and was eating her food and drinking her water and then was bathing in her water.Tiko of course was nervous and scared hes like a little clown he always does funny things and hops around.

Saw a cockatiel in a petstore and fell in love with it so asked my mom for one for my birthday. So my mom got me budgie but i died short time later. And then my mom got me a cockatiel for Xmas (justice) and liberty for graduation gift from high school.

I had to go to Petco to find out what birds my husband brought. I saw birds with crest in the store and tag was saying "cockatiel". It was about 3 years ago.

When I was 6 years old I got a budgie for Christmas. I've had birds almost continuously since then. It was all budgies until the day an escaped cockatiel flew into the neighbor's yard, and they couldn't find the owner so they gave her to me. Since then it's been mostly cockatiels.

My parents never let me have a dog so I turned to chickens (teacher brought chicks to the class one day and I fell in loved) and I managed to convince them. Police came and said chickens aren't allowed as pets so I turned to parrots (from the movie Rio) and I have had them ever since.