Grammie's BlogTuesday, February 28, 2006
Tangerine
He arrived one cold winter's night. He was a Christmas present from my two daughters. He was the most beautiful deep orange color I had ever seen and I named him Tangerine. My girls also bought him a white bird cage and a free standing white post to hang the cage on. When we put him in it, he hopped around and investigated every perch, food and water cup and the little white swing that soon became his favorite spot.The next day I woke up to the most beautiful trilling and chirping that I had ever heard. I went on line and read up on the care of canaries, and learned that it was good to give them a little hard boiled egg for protein. From his first taste, he loved it so much that upon waking up, he would immediately hop over to the little food dish that we served it in, chirp excitedly, and do a little tap dance on the rim. He would not touch his seed or treats until he had his "morning eggie".
He was unusually friendly for a little bird and would always chirp hello when one of us entered the room. He eventually developed the habit of singing loudly whenever music came on the TV, usually when we wanted to hear what was being said. At night he would perch and then break into song every half hour or so until we covered him up.
He loved to splash in his birdbath, and then hop onto his swing and dry off in the sun.
When Timmy came to live with us, we had to suspend his cage from the ceiling so that Timmy could not reach him. Timmy loved Tangie, a little too much and never let him out of his sight for too long. I don't know if Tangie loved Timmy, but I do know that he wasn't the least bit afraid of him.
For the last few weeks we noticed a change in Tangie. He had a cataract in one eye that started to throw off his balance, and each day he spent most of his time at the bottom of the cage, as it became more and more difficult for him to hop up onto his perch.
This morning Tangerine crossed over the Rainbow Bridge. Rest in peace my little love. You and your beautiful song will be greatly missed!
Grammie ::
3:22 PM ::
12 Comments:
Grammie - we are sorry to hear about Tangie... Purrs & headbutts
Sweet, pretty Tangie. We'll miss this sassy posts. Sounds like he was quite the little companion and what a beautiful, vivid color he was! It is so hard to lose our little friends. Our hearts go out to you Grammie.
Grammie, we am so sorry about Tangie. He was a beautiful birdie and a wonderful friend.
grammie, we are so sorry to hear about beautiful Tangie. I never met Tangie but I liked his singing and his music video was a hit at my house. Purrayers for Tangie.
Grammie, Mum says Tangie can meet up with all of her parakeets over the Rainbow Bridge. Pretty Boy, Blanco, Squeeky and one more that she can't remember the name of.
Purrrs.
Rest in peace sweet Tangie. Hope you meet up with our birdies over the Rainbow bridge.
Grammie, we're so sorry about Tangie. We'll say purrayers for him to be real happy with all the birdies over the Rainbow Bridge and for you to not feel too sad too long. *fuzzy headbutts and purrs*
Boni, Sanjee, Mini and Mom (Robyn)
Grammie - we are so sorry about Tangie. He was a purry beautiful birdie. We're sending your purrs and furry headbutts!
I'm very sorry to hear about Tangie. He was quite the little diva and I loved his video. We feel like we know him from his blog and we'll all miss him.
We am sssssooooo sorry Grammie! Tell Wimmy to give you lotsa hugs & kisses & we will keep you in our purrayers.
Don't you worry poodies, I'll give Grammie so many kissies on the hand and stinky rubs on her metal legs...she am happy that Tangie am not suffering anymore. I am too.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Thomas Carlyle
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