 Oh my god, this is it. Hey, buddy. Brando! This is it. Hey, buddy. Little Snippers, Flyders, and Newbies. How are you? My name is Marlene McConan. Welcome to my channel. Today is the big, big day. It is. You guys are about to witness something that you've all been waiting for. I am bringing Brando home. Now for some of you, this is going to be the first you've heard of it. For my Flyders, you're going to have known about this way in advance. Because you get my videos early. If you guys want to become part of the Flyders Club, the link is below. Here's my dilemma. George doesn't know. I want to surprise him. And I've been shipping out all of your merchandise today. And I ran into some technical difficulty. So I'm meeting him for lunch so he can fix it. But I don't know if I should tell him there in case he can come with me. Or if I should just kind of like bring the bird home and not tell him. And then just like wait till he comes home and act like stuff is normal and then Brando's there. Because if he can't come with me, it's not going to be as exciting. You know what I mean? So I'm going to go meet him now. What's up? What's up? Why are you filming me? Because I feel like it. Your camera's dirty. Guys, I want to show you what a lunch for us looks like. It's your schedule for the rest of the day. I am going to pick up some stuff. Your camera's so dirty. Come here. I got something weird. Ah. Hey guys. Do you happen to have that? I happen to have everything. You can keep it. Do you have to go leave straight from here? Yeah. Why? I'm just wondering what kind of time you had. That didn't happen. So we're going to have to surprise him later. FYI, ignore my lipstick for the rest of the video, okay? You think I'm the type of person to kind of walk around with like lipstick to reapply, but no. Whatever I leave with is what stays the rest of the day. And that's it. I get one shot. Off to see the bird. Oh my God. So much traffic. I just want to be in the bird store already and see Brando. I have an idea. Wow. And it gave me a Starbucks. Damn. Guys, guess what? George went to his clients and they didn't answer. So I was like, come to the bird store. Come see Brando. So he's actually coming. The universe just gives you what you want, you know? He doesn't know we get to take Brando home today. Is he coming home with us? Mm-hmm. He is? I don't want to say it. Get him home. Wait, we're taking him home? Ah! When do you think we can get Brando? Like really, you want me to spoil it? Dude, babe. Are we getting him today? Okay. Is that what you did? Like you basically told me to come over here because you're going to pick him up? Yeah. What else would you want to be told to come here? I didn't know. I had no idea. So we're getting him today. Good. Excited? Yeah. So the first 24 hours when you guys take him home, you guys sit at the cage, you put him in there, don't take him out for the first time. Okay. Can you explain that? Because I always take out my birds right away. So I want to know your logic. So he's a baby. He has to adjust to your house, look at his surroundings, make sure nothing here is going to try to harm him. Or things like that. They look around, be able to find his food, look at his new cage because he's going to be different than me. And to make him feel comfortable, you know? So you're saying like he has to stay in the cage because you want him to learn where he's hiding? And also adjust to your house too. You look at his surroundings. What happens if he took a ride? Sometimes, first of all, problems eating. He could drop weight, you know, because he didn't give him time to, you know, make sure he knows what everything is. Second of all, misbehaving. That he could be like, you didn't give him time to settle and didn't give him time to look around, you know, make sure nothing is trying to harm him. So what happens is when you open the door, if you open the door right away and put your hand in there, he tries to bite you because he doesn't want to get out. He might be afraid of a couch, a picture in the wall that you didn't give him time to look at. You know what I'm saying? So in the first 24 hours, you're going to look around. Okay, what's that? What's that? Everything is new. Okay, that's not trying to hurt me. It's okay. That's not trying to hurt me. That's okay. You get it? Okay, I understand. What you're saying is like, for example, Vinny is terrified of ladders. But once I put a ladder in the hallway and left it alone, he knew it wasn't going to get at him. So he stood on the ladder. So you're saying the baby needs time to evaluate that nothing is moving around him. Exactly. You know, he could move, but nothing is going to hurt him. And if I move him, then he doesn't have time to analyze that. But a rescue bird already realizes that the walls don't move. It's not a baby. But this guy, remember when he got here, he was so little, his eyes were closed. He doesn't know what's out there, outside this place. You know, he's going to, it's a whole new world for him. After that, because he's a baby and like a human kid, he'd rather be with you and play than eat it. He could be with you all day and starving out to the head. And not eat his food if you guys don't put him to it. How did you do that? For the first like 10 days in your house, for every half an hour that he's with you, for out of the cage or playing with you, you guys need to put him back on the cage two hours with the darkeners, okay? Every half an hour, just for the next 10 days. Because you need to put us, how you're going to make him. Every half hour. Every half hour with you, he has to go back two hours on the cage. Time doesn't add up. Doesn't mean that we were working all day. We were out all day. So we were out eight hours. Let's stay come out an hour and a half. No, you know, if you guys have time to do every half an hour whenever you can, but if you guys are busy and all he gets is one half an hour before eight o'clock, that's his bedtime, okay? As a baby for like at least a month, eight, eight p.m. He should call. So if you guys are busy and you only get one half an hour, that's okay. For his first 10 days, he's very important. He's only 10 days. You know, after that, he leaves the door open. He'll go and come and he'll go once. You know, but as a baby, the first 10 days, you are like that, all right? And then you have to bring him. We're gonna weigh him for you. You have to bring him next week and we'll weigh him to make sure that he hasn't dropped any weight. He hasn't been eating baby for the last five days. You mean he's been eating by himself? Eating by himself. You know what, that actually brings up a good point because our first cockatiel was obviously a baby. It's not a baby like as a baby. It was already eating on its own. When we brought him home, my dad noticed we're kids, we're like seven years old. My dad noticed he wasn't eating on his own. So my dad had a hand feed him. Lucky my dad noticed that, but my dad like hand fed him and that's probably why we probably gave him so much attention that he didn't eat. Yeah, very much. And so my dad had a hand feed him again because it wasn't like 100% ready. This is strictly advice for baby birds. Baby birds, huh? Yeah. This is a rescue. He doesn't apply. He's already, you know? Yeah. He knows what things are about a baby. I always had to get the bird out right away so when I haven't had a baby bird. Oh yeah, nobody's going against it. It's a baby, it's different. Okay. You know, same thing like, you know how the cage, you know, it's, you know, the bird should be out of the cage whenever you are home, you know? Or only, the cage should be only sleeping purposes on when you are nothing. Exactly. You know? That's it. Give me five. Yeah. But that's a baby, it's different because he won't eat, they won't eat. Kidding you, if he could be with you all day, with you guys, he'll go all day, he will never eat. You have to make him eat. Same thing like a kid when he's having fun. A little kid when he's having fun and doesn't want to have lunch or screw dinner. Same thing, you know? You have to make him stop him and make him eat. That's how you're going to do it like this. Do you love birds? Of course. What do you think? I love all animals. What do you want? You got three more muskash pair of feet? Yeah. And they're wings? But I can't even take them out because they're so baby. Is that in the income? Like they have no feathers? No, nothing. But how do you know they're muskashes and not ringers? Oh, because they don't know. She knows. I thought they were ringnecks when I saw them. Oh, my God. I was like, we don't know the colors and we just ring next to them and they just don't know. Oh, my God. What's that? Oh, so if anyone's looking for a Brando. We have them. Okay. Marlene's signature. Burn them. We cannot have these cameras. How can I help you? Oh, my God, this is it. Hey, buddy. What's up, buddy? Brando. This is it. Hey, buddy. It's been a long journey, guys. I'll see you in the next episode. Remember when we first came in and bought all that food and broke and all that? This is it. Came in close enough on Brando. Thank you, Brando. Okay, when do we come in to bring them? When do we bring them for the wing? Monday. Next Monday. Next week. Okay. Sounds good. Week. Brando. Oh. We're taking him home. I know. Are you excited? Yeah. Oh, he's so cute. Hey. He's peeking out. Hey, little buddy. You're a hard buddy, okay? What should we do? We've got to take him upstairs to sleep in our room. We won't be disturbed by noise. Yeah. We also have to watch the cage. Yeah. Okay. Let's get to it. Oh, we won't be introducing him to any birds today. Obviously, he's going to be in quarantine anyway. George is going to go pressure wash the cage. I got to kiss him while he gets his cage to look. You know what I thought? If Brando's a female, imagine if Picasso came back and then Picasso like had like a girlfriend or something, you know? Like, I don't know. Weird things have happened. Like the universe cares about all its creatures. Maybe Picasso really needed like a mate. And this was the way it happened for Picasso. You never know. And for those of you asking me if I'll change his name. No, because if he is a she, if Brando was Marlon Brando's last name. It's not necessarily like a boy or a girl's name. Sounds very much like a male name, but you know, there's lots of females named male things. Brando had a sister. I don't know if he does or anything, but if he did, her last name would be Brando too. Sure, Brando's mom's last name was Brando. Or maybe I don't know enough about Brando and maybe that was a stage name. You got to know some more about Brando, Brando. What do you think? When I was on the phone today with Dawn, one of the store owners, she was like so sweet. She was like, thank you for all the excitement that's come into the store. And we really just want to show you that we appreciate you. So there's something I want to tell you guys. You saw me flight training Brando in a video. And then we came back and Brando's wings were clipped. Wasn't a decision on my part. The store did it. I didn't know they were going to do it. Somebody had noticed that and said, why did you clip the birds wings? And I didn't. Most importantly, what's done is done. I'm not going to make anyone feel bad or blame or anything like that. For me, relationships are extremely important. Would I have liked Brando to have been flighted? Absolutely. I have no reason to clip a baby bird's wings. This is what happened and I just want to address it because I know a lot of you will ask. I did speak to the store about it. Actually, she brought it up because she noticed that someone wrote about it on Instagram. And she said, we're sorry. We didn't know. And we try to keep the birds safe within the store. And if you guys get anything from me at all, it's that things happen. And when you can't change them, you don't attack people. You have to realize, appreciate what good has come of some things. And other things can be a little unfortunate. But Brando's wings will grow back and we will have a flighted Brando. And he will be confident, just like my other birds and just like Picasso was. And that's the story. And I guess the main thing I really want you guys to get out of it is how to handle relationships. It's very important that you approach everything with class and integrity. You just have to understand other people's sides because in this world, I know there's a lot of impassioned parrot people, myself included. But I never like impose my views on anyone without seeing like why did they do a certain thing? Because I'm open to hearing everyone's side. I don't know if that's the actor in me. I don't know if that's the diplomat in me. But it's got to be that way. And you have to like be able to put yourself in people's shoes and just see what it is. Just inquire, be educated, because you just don't know until you walk in somebody else's shoes. I didn't think I would have a baby bird, honestly. And it happened. And I don't think I'll regret it because anything that I do at this point is an opportunity for me to teach and show you guys. And if you guys learned something and learn how to have a better life for your parrots because of me, honestly, the only other bird I want now is Picasso. That would be the most beautiful gift I could ever have in this entire world. If anyone brought me Picasso back, they would be the hero of my life. Wouldn't they, Brando? I'm already in my pajamas waiting for George to get the cage done. Yeah? A towel? A towel? So, you need some stands? Okay. Hey, I only have that one moment. Oh, I need some stuff. Let me look what I have. One thing, guys, when you bring home a baby bird or any new bird, obviously, I've told you this before, but before you handle any of your birds after touching, a bird can always want to wash your hands, make sure everything is super clean. You know, disinfect your hands before and after. Just because, you know, baby birds could be susceptible to something, but also your birds could be susceptible to anything that a bird might have had being among all the other baby birds. So, I talked to the store owner about, you know, testing the bird for beacon feather disease, and she said that they're tested, so the bird is okay. But, you know, just to always want to inquire about those things, you know, you can always check for yourself, too. So, that's just one important thing. So, we have this little swing, but we don't expect him to swing on it yet, so that's why you put it close to the perch so that it's stable. And we put this right here. Like, Nelly, she loves to be storefront property, where she can see. And then this, that he can reach his food. This is just a small perch where his small footsies. And we put two toys. We'll find out where he sleeps, where he prefers to sleep. He's got to go to bed now. And another thing is that we can't change his food yet from what they had, because, you know, that's what he's used to eating, so he has to eat that. What puppy is this? Pooper. His first poop. It's okay, baby. This is your new stuff, okay? That's exactly what I was going to say. Like, when you watch them do this, you see where they naturally might need to step. So, that's why I think, like, this might need to be higher. So, by watching all this, you get to see, like, where he falls and where he stumbles and what you might need to add. He's floofing there, and that means that that might be where he feels comfortable. That's not covered enough. His cage has that thing on top. I'm just curious, like, how is he reacting to the cover? Is he still in the same spot? Oh, he's moving. Guys, I hope you enjoyed us bringing Brando home. I want to thank you guys for being on this long, long journey with us. I love you guys so much. I hope you learned something today. 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