How Jana get her birdies/Jak Jana k pipíčkům přišla [ENG/CZE]

Everyone, who knows me, already knows that I have two parrots, but how did I get them?

My obsession with penguins and other cute birds started when I was nine years old. I do not know exactly what it started, but I see a certain cause in the choice of tiles in the toilet at my parent's apartment.

When I was just 9 years old, my parents decided to renovate the apartment. The first one was the bathroom and the toilet. I won't describe how it went and the conditions in which we were living during the renovation because that would be a different story, but all the tiles and other design elements were chosen by my mother. I have nothing to complain about her choice of tiles but some of them are quite bumpy and swabbing them was hell.

But to the toilet.... I do not know what led to it, but during sitting on the throne, there are five penguin tiles on the left wall. Yes, you are reading correctly, penguin tiles. A typical toilet animal, right?

Well, when the little Jana was sitting on the toilet, thinking about the immortality of the cockchafer and looking at those five tiles, she probably put on some switch in her brain and started collecting penguins of all sorts.

It was pretty bad at first because there weren't many penguins in the stores, but today they are everywhere. Now I think how easy it is to make a gift for me for Christmas, birthday, etc. because you can only give me some penguin into the hand, and I will be satisfied.

I can't have a penguin like a pet, so I always wanted a parrot because parrots are awesome. They are colorful, cute and they do funny stuff. And they scream... that's the reason why I never got any. We've always had hamsters. They are silent.

Two years ago, however, I had moved away from my parents, and that was my chance! My boyfriend, I will call him as Charles, was diagnosed with an allergy to birds, but that did not stop me. I always wanted to have a birdie!

After X conversations, Charles agreed and promised me to get one after my bachelor. Well, but it will be in two years! How should I stand it?

I did not. Almost every night before bedtime, I told him: "I want a little birdie!" Occasionally, "I want a birdie!" sounded over the day. But Charles always said that it would be my bachelor's reward. However, I didn't stop the pressure on him and, as it was in August when the Botanical Garden of the Faculty of Science of Charles University regularly exhibited exotic birds every year, I increased the pressure on him. It is nice that he promised me a bachelor's reward, but when I do it in June, I will have to wait until August for an exhibition before I can get a birdie. No way!

And so Charles after my regular "I want a little birdie!" bombing retreated and we were waiting for an exhibition to get one.

Unfortunately, our expedition was successful at a second attempt. For the first time I found last year's term of the exhibition, so when we arrived, they just were installing cages in the greenhouse.

But then it came out, and on August 20, 2016, we brought home Pipiczech.

Because I fulfilled my childhood dream, I tried to spend as much time as possible with him. I was at home very often, and I was playing with him. We did everything together, so he stuck to me. I'm just his girl :D But in spite of all the great care, he started to tear himself. We thought that it is because of boredom, so we tried to play with him more. It did not help. Then it occurred to us that it could be from a lack of light, so we moved him to the window. It did not help. Another thing that was offered was to buy a friend or girlfriend to him to have someone to play with, even when we are not at home. But to get Agapornis in Prague elsewhere than in pet shop is hard.

I found a young bird at Czech internet bazaar, but the owner was just in the cottage and did not know when she would return! Well, I was angry, but I searched until I found Agi. He cost almost like Pipiczech x 3, and was supposedly tame and manually dampened, I like it! I made a deal with the owner, and one day after work I picked him up. On the way, I was angry at a transport company because they moved the bus stop temporarily elsewhere and there was no mention of it at the original station.

Eventually, it turned out well, and on June 30, 2017, we joined another household member - Agi.

If Pipiczech stopped tearing himself? He did not. He fights with Agi, but on the other hand, they sleep together in a coconut, into which Pipiczech did not go before at all.

And the owner was kidding. She said he was tamed. Agi only jumps on our heads or the hand and bite like a pitbull. He bites everything. Chandelier, flyers, laptops, people... We'll have a lot of work with him.