Hi everyone, I want to thank you for your well wishes. Here’s what happened in FL. I was told that Charlie & Syd would be in the same place when I got there which wasn’t the case. The place (A HUGE DUMP) that I went to get Syd was just disgusting, the only way to make the point was the floors were particle board, there were TONS of fruit flies around his cage and on him, his cage was tied shut with electrical wire that you could tell had been ther, food doors and all. He had no food, water, toys, perches, nada, nothing at all. I ran over to undo the wire as fast as I could and Syd jumped out like he hadn’t been out of the cage forever. I was trying tog et him to step up and the guy that was there tried to hand me a nacho Doritos to get Syd down and then some iceburg lettuce ,,,, then I noticed that some of these were on the bottom of the cage, so that is what they were feeding him. I finally was able to towel him and get him in the carrier and into the car with my Dad.
Then I asked about Charlie and was told that the lady that has him may not be home, and I told him that she better or I will bust the door down, he got into his car and would not let me follow him so I waited and he comes back with Charlie on his shoulder with the window open, I asked if his wings were clipped he said he didn’t know and then Charlie took off, she couldn’t really fly due to the thing she had around her neck, she landed in a dead tree on the side of the dirt road and I toweled her to get her out, when I picked her I found that the thing around her neck was one of the capes that I had been sending them, but it was an old one and was ducked taped and her feathers were also taped to it. By this time I wanted to kill someone.
I got Charlie in the car and we went straight to the vet, and I totally broke down, I really never do that in front of people, I was a mess my poor dad didn’t know what to do, I excused myself and as I was in the ladies room the kid called me and I went off on him (lots of choice words) ending with loose my number. Then I forgot that I was going to hold my tongue until I got Sampson (ekkie) out of there, and started to cry yet again.
Poor Charlie has an open wound ion her leg, her chest and her neck, she is a mess, she doesn’t have as many feathers missing on her chest as I had thought after I misted her, which more than likely was the first time in over a year her or Syd were bathed.
Syd lost weight (easy fix) however has to take antibiotics and she also gave me a topical treatment to spray on her. The vet also took blood and “other” samples and will call me with the results.
Today they are both so happy, they are bathed, fed, water, and loved and will NEVER be out of my sight again.
Now about Sampson, first off I really need you all to realize that I did a home inspection and I knew this woman, I don’t know what happened, and I was just there in Nov-Dec. and everything was fine. But Sampson is a Ekkie that I adopted to her daughter and I was told when I was in FL that he was being kept outside and looks really bad. Last night my son came over to my Mother’s house with a couple of his friends 19 – 21 yrs. old (and yet again the tears went off) one of the boys told me that his mom loved Sampson (I’ve known her 14 years) and didn’t know that I was going to be adopting him out or she would have taken him, I called her and told her the story and she and her son were going to pick him up last night but they weren’t able to get ahold of the woman until today and they will be getting Sampson tomorrow.
I am going to send her a couple of “The Second Hand Parrot” so she will be familiar with how to help Sam.

Wow. Wendy, I can't believe you held it together as well as you did! You must have been going crazy! Good Lord, what a terrible situation. The poor babies are out of there now, that's the main thing I suppose, but wouldn't it be great for those people to do some jail time? Hopefully time and your love will heal Charlie and Syd and help them to forget.

I am so happy to hear that Charlie and Syd are with you now. You'll have them back in tip top shape before you know it. Post pictures when you can.

Oh Wendy - thank goodness your babies are home. What a horrible story. But, it's all behind you now, thank goodness. Like I said in my previous post, sound like you got there just in time.

Perhaps you could have the new mommie to Sampson join the forum. It may be helpful to her.

Thank you all so much. I have been lovin on them all day they are gonna get sick of me soon. then hubby came home and more lovins'
Nate, it would be nice to see them do jail time, however I think there is a special place in he** for those kinds of people...and I feel terrible that i put the birds in that position.
Ohhh what a great idea to have Karen join the board...I WILL do that.

Oh my, the poor things!! I'm glad you were able to get both of them back. I hope your friend is able to get Sampson, hopefully he's in better shape than Charlie and Syd.