Family Pets - Click for larger view

Figured it was time to have a pet page. We've had "Burlap the Brat" since she was a couple months old in April of 1995. Our former cat had died in February of that year, just shy of her 17th birthday. I'll look for a picture of Velvet and add it if I find one. Though we got Burlap in April, she was born in February and have given her a birthday of the 1st.

Our new additions come to us with sadness. They previously belonged to a very good friend, Richard Borup, who died 17 Jan 2004. During the couple years that Richard was waiting for a new liver, he knew that he might not live long enough to get one. Dave would go over every week to bond with Sweet Pea, since Richard wanted Dave to have him if he died. He added cockatiel Tweetie Bird about a year ago, shortly after she was born. Not sure of Sweet Pea's age, we need to ask the vet (he's a boy). We think we remember that he's about 10-15 years old (a teenager since they live to be about 80). In any case, the colors other than green are red on her feet and the back of her crown, and a beautiful blue in her tail feathers, with some blue hues on her chest. Sweet Pea's a Nanday Conure. Note that in the third row, Sweet Pea likes to drive. Tweetie has been assigned 1 Feb 2003 as birthday, and Sweet Pea arbitrarily as 1 Feb 1989.

"Buddy the Budgie" (aka Parakeet) joined us in Jan 2005. Kathryn was working at the home of a client (Gwen), when he landed on Gwen's shoulder in her garden. She would have loved to keep him, but doesn't trust her dogs, so we volunteered to keep him. We did the obligatory search for Buddy's owners, but feel confident that he is now ours. The vet estimated his age at 7-8 months, so her assigned birthdate is 5 May 2004.

Sweet Pea likes to play dental hygienist (4th row). Since the dentist wanted a picture, during the picture taking we took a movie clip as well. Buddy hopped up on Dave's shourder and started picking on Sweet Pea, who was surprisingly indulgent. The mpg movie clip is 9 megabytes. We also have two clips of Buddy as well, one (playing with Dave's finger) is 7 megs, the other (in cage chirping) is 10 megs.