Your birds are beautiful!Aw, duprasi are so cute! I never owned any myself but I had a friend who owned some fat-tails. They were banned at the same time as the whole monkeypox scare and I haven't met any who owned them since then. I bet they are super hard to find now, just like gambian pouched rats and zebra mice. I also really like jirds. I know someone who has a pair but they seem to be infertile.
I forgot about the kangaroo rats I used to have. They are hard to find too, but they are one of the Texas white list animals so I may go out west at some point and collect some for pets.
Right now I am trying to start up a colony of pygmy mice but those seem to be getting rarer too!
Raptors are awesome, aren't they!? I used to work at a bird sanctuary and the owner had a license for raptors. No owls, but she had lots of hawks and falcons. And also pied crows, which is another species I'd love to breed someday.
I work at a corporately owned animal hospital. Most of their locations are preventive care for small animals only but the particular location I am at does a lot more emergency/special/exotic stuff than most other locations. We have an ortho specialist and two exotics specialist DVMs on staff. Which is good because I've done so much work with exotics I'd be bored if all I got to see was dogs and cats. ;P
Is that your macaw in your siggy? Here are my eclectus (and amazon RIP)
The macaw in my profile picture is one of the macaws from the rescue where I used to work. Her name is Meadow. She is definitely a little spit-fire! I generally find I get along much better with cockatoos than macaws for some reason. One of my favorite birds at the rescue (Who I plan to adopt) is named Big Bird and he is a mollucan cockatoo. He decided I was his mate and he'll let me do darn near anything to him. He's not so fond of others though. We will have a lot of behaviors to work on when I finally am in the position to take him! He's definitely a huge flirt though, and so sometimes it's difficult to resist giving in to him! There's a few other cockatoos between my friend's rescue and her friend's rescue that seem to have taken a liking to me as well. They are all males too...hmmm. Not really sure why the 'toos find me so delectable! LOL!
