An addition to the Dooley family

"Hello, Cocky. Kai kai!" This is our new bird and this is all that he says right now. Yesterday afternoon, he must of said it 100 times!


A teenager brought the bird by on Friday. I really wanted my friend to buy Cocky, because he seemed so tame, but she didn't want to. I finally caved in and thought "Well, the girls can have fun with him. There must be some benefits for living in a tropical paradise." Sure enough, the whole family loves him. Even though I haven't had the courage to hold him yet. I let him stand on a stick and then carry the stick around. Olivia loved him until she saw poo on the porch and said "We have to give that bird back. HE POOPS!"

Yes, that is an ice cream cone. He loved it.
Living in PNG as we do, we expect unexpected things to happen.
Sunday after church, our Cockatoo was missing from his cage and the teenager who sold me the bird was wandering around station with a white cockatoo...hmmm....He said that he had 2 birds at home and this was another bird.
Eventually, we got our bird back. It was the one that the teen had stolen from our house and trying to sell again! Always an adventure!