Rio's Story
It was very long ago. As long as I can remember. About 3 years ago I was shut up in an aviary with all my friends and my real mummy and daddy. They were quite busy with my younger siblings so I played with my friends most of the time. I had a pretty good life there but it got a bit boring sometimes. And also a lot of my friends called me 'fat' cos I ate too much. I couldn't help it really. I mean I guess I was bigger and chubbier than the other budgies my age.
When I was about 8 weeks old, the big hairy human moved me to another aviary. If I could read human language I would have been able to read the sign. My new owner told me later on anyway that it read "For Sale'. I didnt' like it there much because I was seperated from my mummy and daddy but then I realised that an older budgie by the name of 3297 (we didn't have names then...just numbers) and he was my older brother. I was very happy that I knew someone there. Anyway, he was sent here at about my age and I was a sibling myself. He told me all about how these nice people bought my other 3 sisters before they bought 3297.
One day a nice girl with her daddy came. It was our first customer. The little girl wanted a budgie and she picked me because I was the fattest. Actually I don't like being called that. So the nice girl bought me and took me home in a little box. Soon I'm in a new home in a new cage all by myself and a new family. I still miss my mummy and daddy and all my brothers and sisters and friends, but now I have to move on to make a littly girl happy and she made me happy because she didn't call me 'fat' and liked me just the way I am.

