Sunny is probably the most special feathered appearance in Etten-Leur. Maybe you have seen it fly: a beautiful yellow/orange bird with green wings and clever eyes. The small parrot regularly flutters through the streets and gardens in the neighborhood and then lands with you on your shoulder. Escape from the cage, many think, but Sunny just has a loving home.
Sunny is a sunpool, a parrot -like that originally comes from Africa, with a very affectionate and loyal character. He was just three months old, just squeaked out of the nest, when he ended up with Jacqueline Heeren and her family. A cheerful animal that likes to nibble and drink the buttons of the remote control from the water tap. “The parents of Sunny were Freeflighters, That means that they are released to fly in the free outdoors. Sun parakeets really need that freedom. If you only leave them in a cage, they become very unhappy and they will demolish things, “says Jacqueline.
“Sometimes he is waiting for the door handle.”
The first time that Sunny was allowed to go into the wide world and flew out the door was quite exciting. “Although we had first practiced about three months with flying around in the house, I held my heart. Suppose he wouldn’t come back?” But Sunny turned out to have an excellent sense of direction and just flew inside in the evening, and then hurting loudly. “Since then we let him go daily. He always comes back. And when the back door is closed at the end of the day, it is waiting for the door handle.”
Yet it regularly happens that Sunny does not appear. “He is so tame and a real everyone’s friend,” says Jacqueline. “Then people think that it is a flown bird and they take it inside, or close it in the shed.” In Panic she no longer touches, but she immediately grabs her phone to report in the neighborhood app and on Facebook that Sunny has lost. “In no time there will be a response that it is there and there.”
Sunny is also no stranger to Amivedi, where missing and found pets can be reported. “I have already had a phone call from them that they have come to fly something. Then they laughed the address details where we can pick it up.”
The tropical bird is now a full member of the family. Also with the morning routine. “When I come down early in the morning, he immediately flies up where my husband is still sleeping and crawls under the blankets. If it’s time to take a shower, Sunny also goes along. Kleddernat is then it is not a face. After breakfast my husband walks to the car to go to his work, and then fly out.”
“He liked it so much, and wanted to buy a cage.”
The family is very disappointed that Sunny is taken care of so often from well -intended local residents. “I have stated in the BuurtApp that Sunny likes to fly around, that he has not escaped and that you can just let it go because he really has a home, but it still goes wrong. I really have a Sunny-hotline “, She laughs. “This weekend I had to come and get it somewhere two kilometers away. That man said:” He is so much fun, I even sat on the couch with it. “He already wanted to buy a cage.”
But Sunny just belongs to us, she concludes. “It is a happiness that likes to make flying hours in the neighborhood. So if he sits on your shoulder, then just get it, but don’t get it in. Then he can also find the way home again.”