I YouTube because I love sharing videos of my adorable and hilarious cockatoo, Maui Lynn! This silly little bird has changed my life in so many positive ways since she's become a part of our family. Maui was 22 years old when I got her a year ago, and she was in horrible shape. Just give a little information on her history, her previous owner was my uncle, so I have known Maui since I was 5 years old. He had Maui for the first 22 years of her life, but I ALWAYS wanted to "adopt" her. When I met her when I was 5, I totally fell in love with this beautiful little angel. However, her previous owner did not take the best of care with her. She is a corella cockatoo, which are the smallest of the cockatoo world, so she only weighs about 1.8 pounds. When I got her a year ago (because her owner was a drug addict and went to rehab so he could no longer care for her) she was an entire pound underweight. Now I know being 1 pound underweight doesn't sound like a lot, but understand that she is at the ideal weight she should be now which is still only 1.8 pounds, which means she was less than half the weight she should have been. She also had a really bad mite infestation, and had begun plucking her feathers so badly because she was so stressed out. He never got her out of her cage or gave her any attention, so she was completely unsocialized and would bite anyone who came near her. I've had her for a little over a year now, and it is like she is a completely different bird. She is such a beautiful success story! It took MONTHS to socialize and properly train her, but we finally got there. She is so healthy and so happy now, and I couldn't be happier! She's my baby girl
Now that she's made so much progress, her personality has really come out of hiding over the last year. I have so much enjoyed making videos with her and sharing them with friends and family, and since everyone always responds to these videos so well, I thought I would try posting them on YouTube to see if other people enjoy them as well.
