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  • 1 year ago
He was plucking out his feathers for over 20 years — wait to see his mom's reaction to finding new feathers growing in. We spoke with Samantha about what it was like to adopt a 26 year old parrot, and how she won Salem over!

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00:00it's gonna be okay honey he was just shaking he was like looking around he didn't know what was
00:05going on hi buddy my vet contacted me because his owner passed away and his late wife could
00:14not care for him anymore and i i of course couldn't say no it's okay and he hated me at
00:22first i was like i'm gonna give him a chance and when i brought him home it was a whole different
00:27story it was a really really really well-loved bird he's been plucking out his feathers for over
00:3520 years so we've changed his diet drastically this is how i have to get you to love my job
00:44he's got 10 feathers coming in there those are new wing feathers the one under there he is getting a
00:50new ones i'm so proud oh we bonded super fast
00:55within a month he was more comfortable sitting with me for more than five minutes at a time
01:05now that we've been together for like three months we can sit together on the couch for a half an hour
01:11and watch a movie or a tv show what are you doing salem my husband and i and salem and i we all have
01:19the same amount of time we're all going to live the rest of our lives together it's a crazy thing
01:24it's happily ever after for all of us
01:28you
01:36you
01:38you
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