 And then there is what I think happened and if this is what happened there's always a chance of me finding Picasso Here's what I think happened Hello my fellow sniffers and flighters for those of you who are wondering what a Flighter is it's those of you who have joined my VIPs on my patreon I call you guys my flighters because you're gonna help me in the plight of just making things better for birds Whether that's by helping me get more videos out or joining my community overall My name is Marlene McCohen and this is Cody my African gray for today's video I thought that Cody would kind of be the perfect bird to be in the video although he can get kind of rambunctious But if you read the title, it's what I think Happened to Picasso Okay, oh see you guys like always say like did you forget about Picasso? No, I just like can't even talk about it for those of you don't know Picasso is my mustache parakeet that I lost on July 3rd 2018 I already made a video on how I lost him and those of you are up to date like so I won't go into that you can check out my other videos and follow the story thought Cody was kind of a perfect bird for this video I don't know why cuz all the other videos I haven't had Cody in it But also cuz George my African gray used to be Picasso's best friend. Okay, so I thought I could keep it together until like the video But apparently I just can't keep it together because I just can't so okay It's been a while now since Picasso's been missing and I want to tell you what I think happened to Picasso What I really really do think happened to Picasso I don't want to show you a video of something very odd that happened a few months before Picasso left I'm laughing because Vinnie Vinnie found the Vinnie gang shirts and I hope he doesn't Peer through the packaging hold on Vinnie you want to come here and be in the video too? You can come here too Okay, well either way trying to get Vinnie was kind of that break that I needed But he went over to be with his box not his box It's a refrigerator that I got that didn't turn out to be the right colors So I meant to return it, but he's eaten the box. So I don't even know how I could anyway Okay, so for those of you guys who know me really well, you know, I always said Picasso was my favorite bird Obviously there shouldn't be any favorites, but he was just super special also because my African gray had died This was a while ago. He now Picasso had been the longest bird that I had had out of the entire flock So I definitely had him for 11 or 12 years. So it was just like Picasso What is just Everything anyway, this is what's hard about having a flighted bird because I mean people are like was he recall trained? Yeah, he was in the house. He was very very good at flying to me But when you take a bird outside that's never really been outside and not a free flight parrot or anything like that They just don't know like where they are and where they're going and there's big gates behind me and everything So just to get that out of the way. Anyway, um Obviously you guys know I'm on YouTube and mustache parakeets are not the most popular bird in the world So if anyone found him and really had any interest in finding the owner Then I believe they would have found me just with all the posting everywhere with all the publicity with him being on the news I really do think if there was any good Samaritan that like found him They would have returned him to me or at least called me or something the other thing is that if someone found him and didn't want to give him back Then I think they would have at least met someone that's like wait what you got a bird Oh, I heard about it Let me look for it one day my friend found a dog and he posted on Instagram and he said he couldn't find the owner He looked everywhere and then he brought the dog over and I went on Craigslist and found that dog's owner And they were reunited and my friend was happy that he was reunited too He was like this was the best thing he couldn't find the owner at all So I do believe that like if anyone would have even heard of that bird They like I do believe that if anyone else would have come in contact with someone finding a bird They would have at least tried to look I just believe that it's like in my karma just in general but And I also know that like every pet store around me every bird store knows what happened They know me and I know Los Angeles is really big But if someone would have come in and been like hey, I found this bird. I need a cage for it or whatever I also feel like that would have led Picasso to me too And that never happened So it's funny how a lot of you were like did you forget about Picasso? And I don't know why you guys say that but maybe it's because I don't like mention them all the time And it's just because I can't because look at how I am like I can't I can't even deal with it Some other possibilities include Include, you know something happening to him Maybe like with a hawk, but I just doubt it. Picasso is just way smart and I don't I That's not something I want to believe and you know how birds are like unless he was swooped up by a hawk in that First flight, which it's not something I saw happen Then I don't think that happened to him because I would have seen something in sight and then There is what I think happened and if this is what happened There's always a chance of me finding Picasso, but here's what I think happened I'm gonna show you guys a video. I don't know. I think I'm all over the place. I know Well, the first thing I want to tell you guys is that I kind of instinctively knew that something like this was gonna happen I still never clipped his wings because Just like the way he flew and the gift of flight for him was just so valuable and I kind of wish I would have but yet I still have flighted birds But that's a whole nother controversy for other people to argue about if they just want to be Like that, you know within the community, but I'm not like that. I just support everyone loving birds We live our lives with flighted parrots But my main thing is that birds are taken care of and engaged and not caged So it is hard knowing that like, you know, maybe if he was clipped I would still have him So a few months before this happened just instinctively I just had this feeling and I kept telling him please don't ever leave me Like, you know, I won't be able to make it without you like you're my everything I would tell him that and whisper it to him. It's really odd the day that he flew away 10 minutes before I took him out and put him in a separate cage and said to my sister I don't want to lose my Picasso because that would be the worst like I wouldn't be able to go on if I lost Picasso and it was just ironic that you know half an hour later I lost Picasso, but I just kind of knew intuitively that something was gonna happen and I still couldn't prevent it It's like the actual length that I went to to prevent it Essentially caused it, but I have this video. I want to show you and it's of Picasso a few months before and I can tell you the date May 26 like a month a little more over a month before I had brought the Finch downstairs because the Finch his partner had died after his baby had died This is a side note So that's why I only have one Finch who I call Finchy now And I wanted to bring Finchy down and include Finchy in all of the other Activities and make sure that he felt included and you know, just really better bond with Finchy And until that point Finchy as soon as we got the Finches They were laying eggs So I had wanted to do all these different things like maybe work with them and tame them and like you know But here now I had these two Finches with babies that they were feeding and I couldn't interfere. I couldn't change their cage I answered this on Instagram. So after Finchy's girlfriend died and Wife and baby and that's a whole nother thing to get into they are not great at taking care of their babies in the beginning So like you would see like these stillborn eggs all the time until like one day this one Finch kind of lasted a long time I was really excited about it And then that Finch died and like soon after the mom died and so I let Finchy grieve I brought him down and also I was able I was telling you guys on Instagram I have a bigger cage for him, but I couldn't move them at that time I brought Finchy down and it was Picasso's first time seeing Finchy This was after like he was corn like you know just after he was quarantined because his wife died I have this video. I'm gonna show you now Picasso walked over to the cage and he started looking through it and George said Marlene You have to come here and look at Picasso and I filmed it But I I got it But not the way he was looking through in the beginning He just stared at Finchy like wow, you're a bird in a cage like you're stuck in there in this cage You know, I just looked at Picasso and I thought he's thinking is this me like am I also that bird? I know it's a lot to project on a bird But he looked at Finchy and just the way you know that Jersey always wants to unlock every bird when they first come home You'll know like that. I just got this feeling like he wants to be out and he wants to fly Obviously, I would never do that but then when he flew away and I didn't get him back I really started thinking and some of you emailed me the most amazing things and a lot of you felt very strongly about Picasso being out in the wild a lot of you felt like maybe This was all meant to happen in a certain way Obviously a lot of things are meant to happen just the way they do but I want to tell you guys something about mustache Perikets mustache perikets and ring necks in general. They're very very good at surviving in urban life. They Really adapt to the weather conditions. I've seen them all over the world. I've lived in Israel. I've seen them in Obviously in the valley. I've seen them in Malibu I've seen them in so many countries where you wouldn't expect them But you know, they got loose and they adapted to living there Which is why they are illegal in a lot of states too because they really can adapt well and also in California We have a lot of fruit trees Picasso was no dummy He knew how to forage for fruits and vegetables and that's part of the reason I do think he is out there in the wild surviving and Enjoying himself is because I would leave fruits out on the table and because Picasso was flighted He would fly shred of fruit and fly back. He would fly and go potty and fly to me He was kind of living like a wild bird in my house. I used to joke like oh You have to fend for yourself here But that was only with Picasso like as a joke because he just knew how to get into everyone's cages and finds food if He wanted like but he also knew how to go find all my fruits and vegetables and like to care of himself Is the best way to explain it like more than any other bird part of me feels like out there He has all the survivable skills both naturally and the way he grew up in my house but also you have to remember that Picasso I Got him at a pound because he was a found bird after being outside Which means he survived that and nobody came to claim him Which might also mean that he had been out there for a very long time There must be some instinct that he had to survive that and I believe that there's some instinct he is Has if not more to survive what he's gone through now And I want to tell you some of the things that people have told me in messages that are local It had been very hard losing Picasso also looking for him and posting about him because the prank calls I had someone find my post before I ever made it public just on Where I posted it got my number and attacked me and said I don't believe because it's missing because if he was you Would have made a video and it's like why would I make a video? I'm busy looking for him. Like that's what I care about I don't care about views. I don't care about anyone knowing anything I just care about like where's my bird and they're like why would a youtuber post I'm like I don't care if I'm a youtuber. I only care about People having access to me to find my bird, you know, so that's kind of funny Like that people would think that and then I had to go through people pranking me and like lying and fake calling And like all this it just it's not been the easiest thing And then of course like getting offers of other people's birds and you know, that's how I have the Senegal's and those things have Been a lot, but I want to let you know about some things that may have been Picasso that I got calls about so a few people Called me about something that they don't know each other just people in the neighborhood I got calls and a lot of people said that they remember seeing a bird like mine and what struck them as Weird and why they noticed the bird was because he was drinking out of a hummingbird feeder and looked way Too big to be a hummingbird and the fact that I got Multiple calls on that and I followed up on everyone in every area is just tells me one that if that is Picasso And it's definitely somebody's bird That they literally learned how to take care of themselves and find hummingbird feeders for you know I guess like electrolyte liquids if it really had been Picasso as well that he had survived All through that time because there was a great time difference in between those calls. So that's another thing One day I also got a call from somebody saying I think I saw your bird and it ran away with another bird And I took it seriously because the guy said that there was like a fish place nearby really really close He saw a bird two different kinds of parrots one might have been like a love bird Yeah, he sent me the picture of one and it was like a love bird And then there was another bird with it that he didn't catch a picture of but they were flying together Hanging out together and they were eating you know like the leftovers from that store I from that restaurant. I went there. I went on the roof over there. I went behind there. I returned to there I left the guy my number. I mean like I did everything I could but I never saw Picasso But that's just a fact then that two separate birds were at least hanging out together and even if that isn't Picasso Just goes to show that like these parrots can find each other in the wild to know They're different and lean on each other if it is Picasso then he's flying around Handling himself and has a friend. We've had a lot of bad weather here lately in Los Angeles Something very unusual for us. It's not bad. It's actually great for us a lot of rain Which makes me worry a little about Picasso But it also makes me think if he's unsure at least he knows to go to a person and maybe one day That is what will happen. He'll go to somebody randomly like he'll be like I'm tired of this or the weather is bad and like, you know Hey take care of me and I do believe I still have enough info out there that like people will still find me If they find Picasso all the bird stores know. That's what I think I think he has the tools and I think he has the survival skills and I think if this is what he wanted like if he's out there Enjoying himself Then I Don't want to take that away from him. I Just want him to be safe, you know like Not in someone's hands, that's the wrong person or Anything like that. I just want him to be happy and Someone wrote to me that like they feel like I gave him the gift to be able to survive out there And I know I did like I don't think many of my birds could survive out there But I know Picasso could so that's what I really think happened to him and I think he looked at that bird in a cage Finchy and saw that maybe he could live his next 10 years out In a different way. Otherwise, I think he would have went to somebody and I think Just between the apps and the posts and the Facebook groups and the posters all over here I think I would have found him and with all of you guys looking through Facebook posts And you could still do that for me I love that sometimes like I look and I just my heart breaks and I can't look anymore because like I'm afraid I'm not gonna find him so just join every group you can and Type in mustache parakeet M-u-s m-o-u-s ring neck. That's another thing, you know I've been very diligent about like spelling it in multiple different ways paying attention to every kind of bird And it's just never too late people find their birds after years and maybe one day He'll be like too cold or too tired or too much rain and he will go to somebody here Maybe he'll go to the wrong person and fly away from them and then I'll find them. I don't know into my life I've always found an answer that I think can be confirmed. I don't believe I've Officially found it yet with Picasso, but I believe I will I just hope it's good news when I do find Vinny's being weird. He's over there nodding. I'm just sitting there going. Yeah. Yeah When tragic things happen, I always think of everything else that happens in terms of before or after the event So like if I look at a picture of me or a video of me I'm like, oh that was before Picasso left or that was after Picasso left I did that for the longest time with George too like after my African-grade George died is just like in terms of like how much trauma was I having at that moment You know, I look back on something. I'm like, oh, I must have been really happy then because like I didn't have this pain Carried with me all the time, you know about losing a bird for those of you that think I forgot about him Obviously never and I never will and it just hurts me so much to talk about it But also for those of you who are my young followers and and not young followers that that are watching me I want you to know that like you can always go on and you you have to go on and make good things out of bad things And like don't let things kill you so much that you can't go on because that's not what anybody would have wanted for you And it's important that I show you guys. I can't recover I'll never recover But how I can recover and I can still go out and do great things because you are probably meant to do great things So don't let anything get in the way of that let it lend itself to your experience and have you do better and Promote better and just be better for the world because all of you have something to give and you don't have to give up Your lives and your sanity and your health I just want to be able to be that person that shows you that because it's important It's important that you don't ever throw away your worth over sadness because he may be happy He may be happy and just where he needs to be and I have to also consider that You have been such a good bird throughout this entire video. He just wants cuddles and love Anyway guys, so that is it. I'm sorry. It's such a depressing video I don't like to do depressing things, but I love you guys so much Don't forget to check out my links below if any of you guys want any kind of special shout out or cameo gift for any of your Friends family or even yourself or just for a break check out my cameo link below I can do it with any of the birds for you if you want some Vinnie merch And if you want to become a flyer and join my patreon and help me focus on getting videos out to you Rather than editing them then that is what I'm focusing on right now There's big things I want to do in the bird world in the name of Picasso in the name of George in the name of all Our birds that need help. I'm just one person, but hopefully through the community. I'm building on patreon I can do big things one day and have more time for the little things to be done and for us to Worry about the birds. I love you guys so much. Thank you for being with me always and forever Please keep looking for Picasso. It's the best thing that you can do for me and I love you guys