Kalie is an Albino female DOB approx 2001
Crumb Bum is a brown Sable female DOB approx 2001
Crumb Bum earned his wings on October 11, 2008

Crumb came in August 2006 with her sissy Kalie. They came from a home that loved them but mom had some real crap going on in her life, so she asked me if I would take them. Both girls were awful bitters. Their current mom got them from a abusive neglectful home. Margaret understood the girls enough to know she was going to get bit but was unable to change it. She knew if they went anywhere else they would not be understood and cared for. So I did agree to take them. They were here only days when crumb got a hold of my right hand at the wrist. She bit so severely that she damaged nerves in my hand. I was about a month without feeling in some of my fingers. The only reason she let go was to get a better grip.

I worked with her and her sissy. Kalie came around easily with my love and care. Crumb however was a harder case. I had resigned myself to the fact that she may NEVER come around. Crumb has done wonderful. One morning when I was getting the girls up; (Crumb and Kalie know they get up first) they dance and prance until I open the cage, this particular morning I opened the cage, Crumb was right there in the front as usual. I put my hand in the cage and she lunged grabbing my wrist.

I do not know what it was I did to take her back to the old times but for a second she thought she was some place different. She did not latch on, she did not break the skin, she really did not hurt me, it was like she realized when she got my hand that I was safe and she did not need to bite. Crumb let go immediately. I picked her up, talking softly to her, asked her what I had done to frightened her, and offered her some ferretone from the bottle. Crumb had some licks; I set her into the play room she was to go in, again happy and secure. She is lovingly called Crumb Bum.

After note: I had parked the newest surrenders in the cage UNDER the girls. Crumb was upset with the new neighbors, once I moved the neighbors out into a new cage away from the girls Crumb settled down again.

Crumb has a far away mom in N.M.