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| Pet Of The Day for July 20th, 2007: BeBe |
BeBe |
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Blue Pied Peach-faced Lovebird |
| June 25, 2005 was the day of our wedding. During the reception, with a smile on their faces, Mr. and Mrs. Anderson told us that they have a very special wedding gift, but he was still in an egg. We both were very excited, but since I had to find homes for my original birds because I was going away to college, I was worried that my heart was not yet ready or worthy of a parrot to call my own again. We got the phone call around three months later that the baby was ready. On the ride there, I was very nervous; this would be the first bird I have owned in close to seven years! I turned to Tamara to ask her, “What should we name him?” Without hesitation, she said, “BeBe!” I never imagined myself as a “Lovebird Person”, but as soon as I saw BeBe, I knew he was our baby. BeBe looked just like a baby Amazon Parrot who never quite grew up. He sat on the bottom of his cage looking like a child at day care waiting for Mommy and Daddy to pick him up, and here we were. While Mr. Anderson gently placed his hand under BeBe’s feet, my heart filled with compassion. He placed him in my hand and immediately BeBe lowered his head asking me to preen him. I almost cried, but my joy overrode my tears. Mr. Anderson then told us the story of how BeBe actually had died because he got very cold one night. His fragile body literally shut down as the light left his eyes, his organs stopped pumping, and his excrements were as black as death. However, there is a force much stronger than the shackles of death, and that is love. With BeBe’s determination to live and Mr. Anderson lovingly nursing him back to health, death was forced to release its hold on his life. I knew that Mr. Anderson spent so much time and effort on this little miracle, so I asked him, “Are you sure that you want to give him to us?” He assured us by saying, “He was always yours; even when he was just an egg. He’s our wedding present to you and Tamara. ” Those were the words that sealed our contract and friendship. I handed BeBe to his new Mommy, and she held him in her coat all the way home. While his little head was gently falling asleep on her chest, BeBe was serenaded by the music of her heart beating just for him. While I drove, I knew Tamara and I were no longer a couple, but a family.
~Rodney and Tamara Money |
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