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Budgie #2: "Twinkle"
I have been urging the girls to go down into the basement where "Fuzzy" is kept to say hello for a minute or two every day, just to be sure he doesn't completely lack for human company during the day. Annie seems more diligent about this sort of thing, and she mentioned that he seemed a bit lonely. This brought up the idea of getting him a friend from the pet store, so on Saturday afternoon we decided to get our first budgie a friend.

The plan was to get a standard green and yellow budgie, and to make sure it was a female, so that there was the possibility of baby budgies in the future. (In my experience this is a remote possibility, but I didn't want to tell the kids that). Then over lunch I was telling them the range of colours they come in, and mentioned that a few come in a distinctly purple hue. Both girls enthusiastically agreed that a purple bird was the way to go.

We went to the same shop on Queen Street near Coxwell as we did last time. There was a single little female who was vaguely purple (purple grey, really) but she fit the bill. The store owner deftly grabbed her and popped her into a box for her journey back to her new home.

Annie was very instant on carrying the bird home, and at the store she was proudly going on about the hope of having baby budgies some day. A lady at the store assured Annie that if she did manage to have baby birds that she would buy them from us -- and immediately dollar signs lit up in their eyes. I cautioned them that it would be at least a year before any eggs might come, but they both happily burbled about getting nest material and asked questions as to what to expect

The name, "Twinkle", was devised on the way home by Vanessa, and Annie agreed to it.

The bird was reluctantly slid out of the box and into the cage, where she met Budgie #1.

As I write it's the end of the day and there's been nary a peep out of her, so our experience with the first bird seems to be repeated with this one. "Fuzzy" was tweeting his head off, so I think he is happy, though I haven't seen much interaction between the two as yet.