Hi!  My name is now Pistol, I am a Sun Conure. I am really handsome or so I am always told! My Mom, Kathleen adopted me from Beak N Wings an educational bird club/rescue.  I was formerly called lots of other names but was known then as RAMBO! 

Why I do not know.  My former owners said I was mean and nasty like a Rambo.  Well, today I am part of a large family and I proud of my name Pistol.  I am a Pistol; sometimes I’m also called Pistol Pete. I love to groom one of my flock mates and he is so much bigger than me.  His name is Fanni and is a Yellow Nape Amazon with an attitude, like me he is an adopted member into our family. 

Fanni and I have only really been friends for about a year, we decided it was better to get along than to fight. So now we groom each other and both get to ride with Mom and sit with Mom instead of separately. 

My big brothers Justin and Calvin play with me!  I bite Justin and he does not care, but Calvin will run and it is fun to chase him away from Mom.  But it really is only a game since when Mom’s not around I will ride with Calvin. But we only like our family members they consist of Abbie the Calico Cat, Tara a white ball of fluff dog and Jackie the barkingest dog in the world, Morgan the big chocolate moose dog and Yoyo, he is a white eyed conure with an attitude that is yappy and noisy in one, who belongs to grandma and grandma alone, then there is the big birds Sam, Scooter and Coco they are all macaws and I respect them unless Mom is around to intervene and of course my buddy Fanni. 

We have a couple of new family members that I am not sure of yet but in time I might start to trust them like I do Mom, Dad, Grandma and my brothers.  I have other flock mates now, and we converse and raise havoc for everyone in the house to hear.  Being adopted is great!  I finally found someone to love me for me and I realized that being the little guy in the house has privileges.  I get to ride in warm places when it is cold out. 

I get special baths, I get a peanut when I am being good and lots of fresh food and if I am lucky might get an opportunity to steel some of the warm freshly cooked food Mom just cooked.  I like it best!  I get to hitch a ride under mom’s shirt. 

Everyone else is too big.  HaHa!  So being adopted is great and more families should be like mine and give it a real try.  Time and patience has given me a big happy family, Happy family is what our house is about.  It is always full of love and lots of excitement that is for sure.

5/12/04 adopted and became a member of the Siska family.