Happy 3 week old Birhtday Jackie!

Today Jackie is 3 weeks old! She is still on baby bird formula, and is doing great. Next week she will be 4 weeks old and I will have to start weaning her. I am very sad that I will have to wean her that soon. She looks like a young adult now, but is still just a little baby. She learned how to fly last week . She could fly very high so we had to cut her wings a little. She knows her name and when I call her, she will fly to me. She will even come to me when I open her cage door. She is very sweet, and even Daddy likes her. (which is very neat because he seldom likes animals)

~Shaylah~

Jackie

As you know we are all animal lovers. If we see a dog on the road we will stop to try to catch it, if we see a cat outside we try to catch it, even if our cats catch a mouse we go out and try to get it from them.

Well let me tell you about our newest edition to the family......

Last Tuesday me and the boys were in the front yard taking out the garbage. I went around the corner to get Tiggie who had gotten out of the house. When I was rounding the corner to come back I saw 3 little wigglie things on the ground by the porch, not thinking about them I keep going. When I had almost made it to the porch Shannen yelled, "there are 3 baby birds over here"! Shayden and I went running over to where he was. And just like he said there were 3 baby sparrows there. Shannen and I picked up one and ran to the house. When Shelbie asked were the third one was we told her it was dead. She went out the to make sure it was. It was dead so we had to throw it away. The one Shannen had picked up was gasping for air. He did not have a a chance to name his because 30 minutes later it died. The one I rescued lived. It was 4 days old when we found it and it was completely bald with no feathers (sparrows are one of the fastest growing birds). It is now 12 days old and has all its feathers. It is a girl and her name is "Jackie". She can also perch on my finger and will soon learn how to fly.

~Shaylah~