 So somebody's walking around with a mustache parakeet I'm tripped out. Did he just walk in with a mustache parakeet and leave? Peek-a-boo! I have a kiss. Peek-a-boo! Tars! Hello my fellow Snippers and welcome to my channel especially for you newbies. Today we're gonna do something very very strange. When I went to Petco with all my pets do not forget to watch the video. They told me that they're having a Halloween costume party for reptiles. Really? How does one dress up a reptile? Wait a minute. This might be interesting. Now of course, if my chameleon doesn't wanna go my chameleon's not gonna go. By the way, I'm already very angry this morning because George promised me he was gonna make the costume but no I had to wake up and do it and I am not one that sows and this guy actually asked me this morning if I have a pattern for the costume. Like a pattern. Oh excuse me. A pattern? Okay, yeah. So now he's super gluing the eyes and I want you guys to check out my handiwork. No hassle sewing. So don't judge. I had to do this really fast because we're late and I wanna go to bird mart today. Not the one with my booth. I just wanna go hang out, walk around and look at birds. How's my costume coming? Is it good? Trying to find the eyes. Here's my costume. She's gonna wear it. Ignore this side, I needed to draw it. This is my sewing, it's kinda no hassle. I just did it real fast. Sometimes I forgot to, you know, I went around instead of through. What are you laughing at? It's a common problem with you. Whatever. So if George sewed this, it would have looked a lot different if anything in the house happens that he's sewing. That's his job. Some crooked ass teeth, but it looks good. Whatever. Let's see if he's gonna wanna wear this. Go see if he'll wear it now. I gotta do this? I'm gonna put it on the lizard? I don't think so. Aww. More than it was Yorkie. You look cute. I think you made the mouth a little too big. All right guys, change of plans. So the chameleon did not like the costume. The chameleon was fine in it for a second, but in good conscience, I just don't think I could have taken her all the way down to Petco in it. And then one option was kinda like bringing her and then putting the costume on later, but I'm not a believer in like torturing animals for my videos. I just don't think it would have been the best thing for the chameleon, honestly. But good news is we're at Bird Mart. I had Bird Mart in Orange County. We're very late. Yeah. We almost didn't make it, but we're here, so let's go see. I'm gonna make him pay severely for this. Severely. Oh my God, guys. Carolyn's here. She has no idea that I'm here. Oh my God. Hershey needs to come back already because I wanna like scare her. So it costs $10 to get in and they only take cash. No, come here. Guess what? We were like, Carolyn's in there. She didn't see me. Really? She did? But I waited for you to like go up behind her. Hold on, hold on. Hide, hide. We have to come up behind her. She can't like see us first. Okay, well, we need that. Here. Thank you. Oh no. There's like nothing going on in here. Seriously, right? I missed a wizard costume party for this. Okay. I guess I'll go see what's entertaining in here. Let's make sure nobody has Picasso. One thing. Right? Hi. I'm such a fan. Oh my God. What's your name? Good year. Good year? Nice to meet you. Yay. Do you have a bird? I have a lot of lorikeets. Lorikeets are insane. They're fun though. They're the most fun. Hi, beautiful. Are you beautiful? Mustache? No, I didn't. I thought I'd come see if he's here by any chance. Got a nice bird to use too now. Thank you. Hi, mom. So beautiful and silver. Big eyes. She's a female, guys. I can't. Look at this one being all naughty. These are from Lebanon. They're called Lebanon. Oh my God. They're sitting on their babies. So I want to educate you on a little something. He's going to help me with this. Obviously, he breeds these birds. And you guys know all my birds are rescues and we believe that if you have experience with birds, you want to adopt the ones that needs homes. But he's going to tell us something amazing about birds that have been bred that are extinct. And because of breeders, we're able to release them into the wild again eventually. So tell me about that. Yes, so pretty much you have birds that are going more extinct each year. The Scarlet Macaw, the Military Macaw. The Military Macaw has recently hit the lid. They're critically endangered and there's less and less of them in the wild because of deforestation, the pet trade, and also the natural predators. So you don't find, you know, militaries as babies. This one, she's only 10 months old. Same thing with a lot of these birds. When you breed a bird, you actually expand the species further on instead of pushing it closer to extinction. For example, take the Spix Macaw. Since the movie Rio came out, they put the bird more on a radar. Everyone knows that the bird is more valuable. It has a high ticket on its head. So you have poachers taking the babies, killing them for feathers, trapping them in illegal pet trading. There are facilities around the world that breed them that's focusing on preserving them. Once you breed them, then the species will survive as a whole. The Spix Macaw, they're extinct in the wild. There was 100 as of a few years ago, there's zero now in the wild. So it's not a bad thing to breed them. I do encourage rescue. There's a lot of birds that need homes. A lot of people give up on them because they're pluckers, they're chewers, they're screamers, they're aggressive. I think a lot of people don't understand the importance of the fact that there's people that are able to preserve the birds that are becoming extinct. We've been able to save a lot of them. Yeah, take the African gray. The African gray is the most sought after bird. Everybody wants it for their talking ability. As of now, they're getting harder and harder to produce. So that's when you get people start smuggling and posting these animals out of the wild to try to get them in other countries. Wait a minute, you're saying, I never thought of this before, you're saying that if we don't breed them, that's when people import them illegally and that's also what leads to deforestation. Interesting, I never thought of that. So for example, when you have less captive bred offspring, there's gonna be few of them. So when you have few, you have poachers that go, the supply isn't there, but the demand is. So we go and take these birds from Africa, put them in a very tight shipping crate, cram them all in and bring them here, we can make a bunch of money. So every bird they take from the wild and put them in captivity, that's one less bloodline out in the wild to produce, to preserve them all. I honestly never thought of it that way, but yeah, if there's an abundance of these birds here, then we're not gonna go to Africa and South America and import them. Not necessarily importing, because importing in the US have been outlawed in 1992, but they're being smuggled where they put cockatoos in two liter bottles. They put hundreds of grades in small crates and the portion of those birds don't survive. So that's less birds for the world, for future generations. It's better to breed them and preserve them. Look at all these guys, these guys are all happy. They look great. Your birds look great. Hi. And they're loving. You've got a lot of loving birds. They're obviously getting a lot of attention. Oh no, look at trouble. I know trouble and I see trouble. Do you come to me? Yeah, of course. You don't like my camera? I trick you, I trick you, look at me. You're so beautiful. Oh, I know you don't like the camera, it's a big one. Oh, I wanna kiss you and love you and squeeze you. There's that tongue I always talk about. Look, he's trying to like look for nectar in my hand. The powder's right here, little bud. There you go. Look at you. So somebody's walking around to the mustache parakeet. I'm tripped out, I'm sure it's not Picasso, but I wanna see. George went up to him, let me ask him. What did you say? I don't wanna go over there and be a creeper, but I still wanna meet him. I just asked him, he's a pretty bird with his name. It's a Charlie, but I can tell like his chest is like. It's not Picasso. No, it's a different chest. But I still wanna see it. He's cute. The guy nice. He didn't really respond like as soon as I was talking to him, he was like turn around and walk around the other direction. Oh my God, somebody has a mustache parakeet on their shoulder. It's not Picasso. It's not Picasso, George says, but like I wanna go see it and read it. Let's go. Oh, look at the fluffy toucan. George was like, yeah, it's not Picasso. Not that I'm gonna accuse anyone of a mustache parakeet, but why is this guy not here anymore? Did he just walk in with a mustache parakeet and leave? And it's like, I would have loved to have met one and cuddled one. We might run into him. It's so small here. It's small because they're competing with another day in Arizona. Oh my God. Pigeons. These are like cockatoo pigeons. They're so cute. There's some really cute birds here, guys. I don't see them. Guys, look at this, wow. Look at all the feathers. I can't believe I never found the mustache parakeet guy up close. The guy at that booth over there, he knew me and he was like, I'm sorry about your mustache parakeet. And he's like, I've been looking. Everyone's been looking. That guy with the cute eyes? Right here? Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Hey guys, all the promoters here don't wanna be on camera, but you gotta come out to this bird mart. It's small, but if you guys keep coming out, it'll grow. And we can promote responsible parrot companionship. Oh my God. Look at all these amazing toys. That's a good toy. Oh my God. How long? That's probably the one and only time you made that, right? No, I made quite a few. How would it be worth the effort? Like this for the price? Like that would be so many hours of work. This is nice. Oh my God, amazing toys. It's all just little puzzles. Amazing toys, right? Guys, her last name is really Bird. And she made all, this is like, have you guys ever seen the episode of, what do you call it, emergency care where they actually say that people's last names detect the emergency they're gonna have? Like yeah, like people have had all sorts of emergencies like pole man and they got like a pole stuck through them. That was a bad example, but like spear and they got a spear, spears, stuff like that, yeah. This is amazing. This guys is beak busters. Beak busters. Do you guys go to the Pomona Bird Mart? Yes, we do. Yay, they're gonna be both there too. A big YouTuber booth. Yay, Pomona's. So yes, at Pomona Bird Mart, I'm gonna open the Silver Play Button, yay. Silver Play Button. Oh my God, this is gonna be so exciting. I don't know if you've fallen in love with any bird. I did, she was over there. Don't know. Wow, hi, he's in love with me. I'm such a macaw person. Yeah, hello, he chooses people. Hi, no, damn, you're a macaw person. I'm like, I'm like an African gray person. What? Birds go away. Like what bird? Like, is he up there? There's always flyaways at these things. Where? Oh. They're gonna get him down. He's in there. It's a conure? It's a conure. I don't know if that's a good idea if they're running that room up there. I don't think so. All right, so they're trying to get this bird down and it's like disturbing me. I don't know. It's like get a ladder and get him down, don't. Never rise anymore. That bird's not coming down, right? What'd you do? I'd leave it until it gets. That's what she wanted, the paparazzi to be on her all day. She makes one comment and we're like, tell it more. Okay, they're gonna come back and get him tomorrow. If I didn't take him home first. Ha ha ha. What are you doing, George, kissing all the birdies? Yeah. One of your friends looks like Jenna's boyfriend. I'm not kidding. No way. You'll see, you'll see. Caroline just asked me if George finished the stand for Rocky and he finished it, but he's still gotta change out something. And she goes, see, trust your guy. And I'm like, it's not ready yet. We love you too. Bye. Guys, come to Pomona Bird Mart. Yes. Play button. Yes. And you will have red carpet and everything? Yeah, I have a little plastic red carpet. But I have a big backdrop with a step and a repeat. Yeah. I'm all set. Yeah, I'm all set. This is a girl on fire and she's leaving a dreamer energy work. I love that. We're gonna have a cake. Gluten-free? No, but I won't be able to eat it. Jenna's gonna make me gluten-free brownies. But for everybody else, normal cake. Yeah. Yay. Yay. He's getting a new one. Yeah, the pump. Can you get this off my finger? I fell for it. Come on, let's go. The five-decker, it's fun to touch them. Oh my God. So here's the situation with the bird that's up there. Because I don't wanna leave you guys not knowing. Maynard works here. He's gonna keep an eye out. And we're gonna get one of the vendors, actually, Jay, to leave some food. I'll leave you my number if you wanna. Contact just in case. I mean, if the guy doesn't come back for him, I think the guy's gonna come back. But if he doesn't, you can call me. So we're setting up something so that the bird can at least find some food. Maybe we could put it in here. I think on that table, probably best. Okay, we'll put something on this table so that when it comes down, he has food to eat. We're gonna put food for you right here. Here's a little birdie soul that needs help and maybe making his great escape to my house. Just kidding. What do you have? Oh, perfect. Okay, let's show him. See if he's interested. Look, mama! Is this where the table has to stay? We could move it. Maybe we could move it so that he sees it. Oh, good. I hope you guys get him. Yeah. The last thing I wanna do is leave a bird here by itself. They're gonna turn the lights off and see if that helps him. I really want this bird to come down. I know. I left you some food and water. I did that. That was all me. What about us? But he's gonna watch out for the bird, right? Yes. You know what? Pay attention to see if the seeds are actually getting up. If you see leftover seeds all around, maybe it came down. He came down and ate. Good call. It's closing time. Thank you for watching this episode and coming with me to this very special Orange County Bird Mart, do not forget to come out. It's a Pomona Bird Mart. It's a big one. On November 25th, I'm so excited to see you there. One more thing, guys. This is a small bird mart, but it's important to go out and support your fellow bird vendors. There's toys, there's cages, there's vitamins, supplements. You can learn a lot and you can see a lot that you've never gotten to see. So always go out and support the bird world because we need it. We need it, guys. I love you. Bye. It's so beautiful.