Anniversary birds: 15500th budgie

Samsibams On 06/12/2006 the German budgie owner Mrs. Klauwer who lives in my neighbourhood told me about her new budgie who carries the name Samsibams. This was in fact the 15500th budgie name that was entered into my statistics. Regrettably there is a sad story behind this special anniversary bird. When Mrs. Klauwer first heard about this budgie she had been told that the bird has been kept solitary for many years. She adopted Samsibams and wanted to introduce him to her other four budgies but he got scared and preferred to stay inside his cage. Besides this one can hear a wheeze when Samsibams is breathing. An alternative practitioner examined the bird and found out that his lungs have been damaged by the smoke of cigarettes. In his former home the bird had to breathe in a lot of smoke all of the time. Now Mrs. Klauwer gives him a special care and she hopes that she will be able to cure him. And maybe one day he will be bold and leave his cage to make friends with Melanie, Dennis, Sandy, and Benni, the other budgies.