9/25/2023 0 Comments Goffin cockatoo plucking feather![]() ![]() It’s not all of who I am, and I’m not here just because I’m a woman. However, even though I may not still be running with a track team, I still hold the values and mentality that my high school track team has taught me. (I wasn’t being lazy, I have a double major and minor, so there was virtually no way for me to give 100% to both). It broke my heart when academics got in the way my freshman year of college, and track no longer became an option for me to participate in. To be on a team like that is also to be a part of an incredibly supportive and talented community. It not only taught me physical strength but emotional strength and the importance teamwork as well. Track, at N.P.H.S., was honestly one of the best things to ever happen to me and I wish I would have joined soon in high school. As it turned out, not choosing to run high school track and field earlier in my high school year was a big mistake. I ran track in middle school and figured why not try it out in high school as well. I played soccer for a solid thirteen years and never made it off of the junior varsity team. Sometimes life can be disappointing, though. Soccer quickly became my favorite past time, and actually lasted with me up through my sophomore year of high school. I thoroughly enjoyed the thrill of putting on the shin pads, the jersey, lacing up my soccer cleats and playing out with all my friend on the field. My favorite childhood athletic activity was soccer. As the only fourth grader who was 5’9’’, the gymnast life was also not the right fit for me. I even tried out gymnastics for a few years. I wasn’t terribly coordinated, patient, or quiet, so golf was also not the sport for me. ![]() I tried ballet, but little three-year-old me got bored too quickly and decided to terminate that route, (kudos to my friends who stuck with dance because it really is a beautiful thing). I started out my athletic career trying out multiple different options. ![]() Featherless or not, cute Calypso turns heads. Specialists have assured her that if Calypso is happy and healthy – plucking Has come to understand that Calypso’s feather plucking is merely a bad habit,Īlong with her aversion to water (possibly another abuse-associated tendency). Loving home, but still, maintains her disorder. Nudist cockatoo is no longer stressed, is in tip-top shape, and lives in a Multiple “cures” for Calypso’s feather plucking, but Calypso still plucks. The bird to indulge in feather plucking.”įamily had taken Calypso to a number of aviary veterinarians whom tried Number of things, such as dryness of the skin due to humidity, diseases likeįeather cysts, or skin inflammations, but usually “stress in any form can cause To PetMD, the WedMD of the animal world, feather plucking can be caused by a (All pictures belong to Kathleen Freeman) ![]()
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