Stats
Full Names: Peeps and Reeps
Date of Hatching: Peeps: May 8, 2000. Reeps: May 4, 2000
Died: (Peeps) September 2000
Coloring: Peeps: Pearly-pied (though he would have lost the pearly as he got older; males do.) Reeps: pied.
Uncommon Fact: As seen by the picture below, they liked to eat out of the same dish. So much so that for a while they wouldn't eat without the other!
Peeps, Cheeps, Reeps and Baps were the third clutch. Cheeps died right away, which isn't unusual. Bird babies are very sensitive things, and usually there is a death (or two) in a clutch. It was very sad, but not unexpected. Confetti and Kris decided they didn't want to feed the babies anymore, and when Baps was just a week old they abandoned them! The babies started going to school with me and stuff, because I had to feed them so often! In fact, they even went to Subrealicon II with me!
Baps was always much smaller than the other two. We found out later he had a weak heart, but boy was he noisy! Baps was definitely the most aggressive--even being the youngest by two weeks, he managed to push his older brothers around! He was pearly, like Kris, but died shortly after I took him to Subrealicon II--in fact, Trisha put up a memorial page for Baps. I was stunned at SubconII, because the girls actually managed to get him to be quiet! He was very happy, and got to see the world before he died. He died of a heart attack, in his sleep, in his nice soft bed of shavings.
Peeps and Reeps were very attached to each other. When I was trying to get them to stop being hand fed, they wouldn't eat unless they ate together! I put them up for adoption, and a wonderful woman named Brenda came for Reeps. She was watching them together and said "Wow, they really love each other, don't they?" I said yes, because it was true. In fact, she wouldn't even be able to take them home yet, because they wouldn't eat if they weren't together! After realizing how close they were, Brenda bought both of them, so they wouldn't miss each other!
I called her house one night, and she got Peeps to sing for me on the phone! Peeps was the lightly spotted one--the pearly--and Reeps is the dark one--the pied. Shortly thereafter, though, Peeps got out during the day when no one was home, and the dog got him. Brenda said there was just the tiniest spot of blood on him, and I wondered if he'd had a heart attack--since Baps had a bad heart, it stands to reason that Peeps might, too. I'd told Brenda about Baps and said that the boys might have the same problem, so she was aware of that. We miss Peeps a lot, and Reeps is in mourning, as of this writing. Brenda's going to get another cockatiel for Reeps--when I brought mine down to see him, he was so happy he started singing "Charge" to Kris! He's very, very loving, and from what Brenda says Peeps was the same way! He gave kisses, and sang to us, and generally was obviously a happy bird. We liiiiiiike Brenda. If I had another bird to sell her, I would! She's also training her dog to leave the birds alone, in case one ever escapes again!
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