I never dream that I would have a cockatiel. I had never even thought of it or seen a bird so beautiful before. But on 10 May 2025, a Saturday, I had to go to work because the workplace, mft got an event there. The event was Vesak Day Event, a day of prayers, bathing of buddha and transference of light. The event will start at 630pm, work starts at 6pm and I began walking there before 530pm.
As I was walking between the blocks of flats at the linkage shelter, I saw a beautiful bird on the floor. People were walking and no one seem to care about the bird. I thought that the bird belongs to somebody. But it was so beautiful, I did not want to miss the beautiful moment, I quickly take photo of it. It still stay there. So I took video of it. It still never fly off. Then I stretched out my hand and surprisingly, it hopped onto my hand. Thereafter, I had a thought of bringing it home.
On the way home, it never fly off either. I had the bird put at home and asked Isaac to take good care of it while I went to work. After work, the bird was still at home. We searched online on information about this beautiful bird and came to know that it was an expensive bird that cost about $200 and it came from Australia.
We decided to keep it as a pet after some thoughts. The next day after church, I went to buy the cage and food for him. It was so nice to see him able to enjoy eating the food that we gave him. He was able to drink water and even sing songs too. What a wonderful bird it was. Isaac thought of a name for him, which was Kumo, in Japan means cloud.
Everyday we let him out of the cage to enjoy some freedom. He loves to go to our shoulders. However with him around, Taco was too scared, he began to go into hiding and often stay in the kitchen. When I was at work, I would come back during lunch time to take a look at them.
Anyway, last week, on 17 May 2025, we lost Kumo. Isaac was bathing and he put Kumo in the bathroom. When he sneezed, Kumo was scared and he flew out of the window. That was the last time we had him. We went out to search for him but we was not able to find him anymore. We had him for 7days and it was good.
