adding animals to our house! We just took in a blue parakeet that showed up at my parents' house. It is likely that someone got sick of taking care of the little guy, and let him go. My parents have a pair of love birds, so their chirping attracted the poor homeless parakeet. He was so scared, trapping him only involved leaving a cage with millet out, and he flew right in.

They certainly would have kept him, but DH and I have a very soft spot for abandoned animals. So now, roughly three weeks before I'm due, we now are up to six pets. At least parakeets are easy, and this one seems to be on the quite side!