Webinar: The Grey Way: Saying Goodbye – Preparing & Bereavement
Date: Friday, February 7, 2025
Time: 12:00 pm PDT (double-check your local time with this time zone converter)
Join us for a FREE, live, interactive webinar hosted by Laura Doering, former editor of Bird Talk magazine and Birds USA magazine. Our special guest, Lisa Bono, CPBC, owner and operator of The Platinum Parrot and a certified parrot behavior consultant specializing in African grey parrots, presents Episode 29 of The Grey Way, a Lafeber Pet Birds Webinar Series focusing on Congo & Timneh African grey parrots as pets. In this episode, Lisa will discuss loss. Whether the owner loses a pet bird or the pet bird loses an owner, the grief can be overwhelming. Lisa will also talk about preparing to say goodbye – either for a terminal pet bird or an owner who wants to provide for their flock.
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Piewacket is a Grey of the most extraordinary brilliance which I am sure you will just think “that’s just an owner talking ” but it’s not….. if I could only figure out how to post some of her videos you’d see !! :). So, I am her second family …..17yrs ago when the husband died the wife put Pie ( for her nick name 🙂 ) to a pet store. I came to that pet store quite a bit…fish Jenday Coner ? Sp? Sorry rushing to write….. and there she was ……I have no Idea why but for some reason I have always thought Grey’s just so beautiful w/ the hombres of grey’s to white and then the surprise tail of brillant red…..the manger said to me as I spied Piewacket that if she had the money she would buy Pie because she’s special…..well, back then I still had $’s so Piewacket went home with me….she bit me for about year seeing of course having had the husband’s attention only….but I knew she and I were meant to be together…..now I have never taught her anything except MOMMY I pointed to her and said Piewacket and pointed to me and said Mommy and within three days…..” Mommy! “
From that day on we just talked….and when I said “ Pie come here …..which probably means she was getting into something she shouldn’t she evenly actually came to me and I would have a talk about how she can’t do etc etc….of course it was a one way conversation….BUT one day I was in the kitchen ( I shared her bedroom 🙂 ) and I heard this very clear totally human voice say very loudly I may add “COME HERE MOMMY….COME HERE !!…”.well, I really thought I was hearing things but I walked to “our” bed room and there she was once again saying Mommy come here……Now you know when kids are relating to adults you have to very careful how you react…..thus, I walked closer and said “yes whatcha want PIE !! “…well I rue the day I taught her Mommy…..from then on like a little kid my name was mentioned and given instructions a whole lot and exactly what she wanted Mommy to do !! 🙂
So, I tell you this story so you can understand my next question….I die and she keeps calling Mommy…… ( I do have a diary of sorts that I am leaving with my will to be given to whomever Susan ( she rescues birds and loves Pie ) gives Pie to how she and I have talked and lived together for aa whole lot of years….BUT what I don’t know what too say or do to the new person that when she calls. “Mommy” what to do ….I am hoping she will stop eventually BUT when my last cat I had only a very few months when I got Pie she kept calling Robert for a very long time however it got less and less …But I think it will be a lot different with Mommy…..I think that the new people should just talk about other things that they have found she loves talking about and not address any explanation which not matter how smart Pie is she just won’t get…..I have gone on very few vacations mostly surgeries…..but on one occasion I went to pick Pie up at the Vet ( they use to board ) and from the front desk she heard me cause she started yelling MOMMY MOMMY so there ends my story and I have thought a lot about this subject and thought what a wonderful way to share this story and get advice from experts who can help with what to do or not do ! thanks so much for your feed back….see you sort of at 3pm
Looking forward to the webinar