For Feather the 53-year-old cockatoo, life has turned around after spending 15 years alone in a gloomy basement. The bright bird now spends her days wrapped in love as part of a young family and one special member, in particular, is her favorite.
In the first week of April 2021, Stephanie Vito, who was pregnant with her first child, took Feather to stay at her Pennsylvania home with the intention of finding a suitable sanctuary for the rescue bird at a later date. The very next month, Vito’s baby daughter was born.
“Feather’s immediate reaction to Sophia was infatuation, literally. It was love at first sight, ” Vito, 33, told The Epoch Times. “She would scramble out of her cage and couldn’t run fast enough to the baby rocker to climb in and snuggle with my daughter….