Rosie Modelo

This is Rosie Modelo, aged 7 mos and some odd days, who has been residing in the cabin for two months since M calls me one day on my way home from work that he's an hour away driving home with a conure on his shoulder.


He is a bird aficionado, I myself have never cared for a perching pet before but fell in love the moment she clamped onto my finger. She knows some basic commands: "up" to perch on a finger, and "down" to go back into her cage (that one she's not as good at). She also knows "unko" to poop (in Japanese) when we tell her to - useful for when she wants to cuddle in M's beard but has just had an entire blackberry....

Rosie loves cuddling in bed with us, tumbling over on her back on the couch and kicking her legs up in the air, bananas, sunflower seeds (junk food), The Who, The Beach Boys, and especially sitting on my head while I wash the dishes. Some busy days we put her cage outside in the shady part of the cabin porch and she watches the other birds play all day - unfortunate to keep her caged but there are so many hawks and owls in the trees on our property that she would get snatched up in a second with her bright feathers.