Pet Portrait Gallery - parrot portraits in oils, Congo african grey

Wilma was born in November 2003; we got her when she only was 10 weeks old. Usually you get parrots to your home when they are about 14 weeks, but I gave her food by hand the last weeks. She learned everything from us, even how to fly. I bought her a harness to be able to be outside. She loved to be outside, on walks, climb in trees and getting out to cycle. Then she sat on my shoulder and I held on to the leash right next to me so she couldn’t fall or fly away. Often I took my birds to the park, so they could sit in a tree, climb and nibble for hours while I was reading. We have a weekend cottage and there were they always with us. Parrots are very demanding animals to own so I took every chance I had to take them along.

Wilma was a rowdy and very special girl. Most of all she loved being with us, if we were at home that was the only thing she cared about. She flew after us all the time, sat next to the dining table on her own stick and ate our food.

She was very kind to us, loved to sleep with me in the bed. She sat on my arm under the quilt and enjoyed her self. When we went to sleep she crawled up there, putted her beak in my “eye corner” and whispered “Goodnight…sleep?” with a asking voice. When I came home from work she immediately climbed up my shoulder, pressed her beak against my cheek, made a kiss sound and then said “ I love you”. She was smart! All toys and clever candy search solutions I did/bought she solved very fast! I used to teach her some tricks too, to wave, to spin and dance. She also knew two different colours. If I asked after green (she had a plastic puzzle for children) she picked it up and got candy for it. She was always happy, always on good mood and rowdy.

Wilma got sick suddenly and even if we tried to save her, we didn’t succeed. The last visit at the vet she died in my arms. I saw how her body just gave up and we couldn’t do anything else then just being there for her. Wilma was everything for me, we were supposed to live a lifetime together, instead she didn’t even get 3 years old. Life is terrible unfair.  All I can hope for now is that she has it good where she is now, looking down at us, knowing how much we loved her.

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