An African Gray parrot named Grady has become the unlucky victim of a bird-napping. When Marna Geisler left her home in the Alphabet Streets on Tuesday morning, Feb. 9, Grady was securely locked in his cage in the front yard. Geisler returned home around 12:30 p.m. to discover the cage’s lock hanging open and Grady nowhere in sight.
Photo courtesy of Marna Geisler
Geisler had gotten the bird as a baby about a year ago, shortly before she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The two had bonded as she hand-fed him and talked with him frequently. “I miss him so much,” Geisler told the Palisadian Post. “It was devastating.”
Grady regularly interacted with neighbors walking by, asking them, “Where are you?” Geisler speculated that since her neighborhood is very busy she thinks it had to have been someone that knew the neighborhood schedule.
African Gray parrots are supposed to live about 40 years, and Geisler had already written him into her will. Geisler implored her neighbors to keep an eye out for the bird and to ask everyone they could about him.
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