Beauty over personality? RE: choosing pets

[Maria Vaerewyck]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Dina Lerret" 
<bunniqula at ...> wrote:
>
> I went into the pet store and saw this *beautiful* white-faced
> cockatiel.  She was almost all white, except for her back with
> cinnamon feathers to create a 'pearl' spotted pattern.  However, 
she
> was too busy ripping up the newspaper in her cage and kept her 
back to
> me.  Then I noticed this normal grey cockatiel and I said 'hi' to 
him
> and he scooted to the front of his cage and got all excited 
like 'buy
> me, buy me'.  Awww.
> 
> Jeez, to fit the human stereotype, gah, I still really, *really*
> wanted the girl bird because she was so pretty but I'm torn by how
> friendly the boy bird seemed.  Gah, the girl bird costs $130 and 
the
> boy bird costs $86--not including FL sales tax of 7%. :-\  I'm also
> torn by the price of one bird but I would so love to get both... 
but I
> just spent over $300+ for an eye doctor visit and new lenses (no
> vision insurance) to find out I'm near-sighted in one eye and have
> astigmatism (translates to myopia again) in the other eye.  All 
this
> time I thought both eyes were just near-sighted with one being 
worse
> than the other.  It's been over five years since I last visited an 
eye
> doctor and got these glasses, so I saved up for new lenses.
> 
> The eye doctor had to do some tests to balance out my prescription.
> He was my third eye doctor; my first didn't do so hot and why I 
kept
> getting headaches--it was explained because one eye was working 
harder
> to compensate for the other.  Dude, if I can see and not get
> headaches, that'll work for me.  As one of those 'da-amn' moments,
> without glasses, the first letter of E on the eye charts was uber
> blurry and I couldn't see the rest of the chart.
> 
> For a gal with bad eyesight, it's amazing how much appearances 
still
> count for me.  Thus, back to the dilemma of I really would like a
> second cockatiel, but I should be glad I already have one, even if 
she
> doesn't like people to touch her... Sometimes, it's too cute to get
> her pissy. ;-)  Try to gently pet her head and she squacks like I'm
> killing her. {chuckle}  She likes attention but no petting.
> 
> Dina
>
maria8162001:

Boy oh boy, you should have gone for the friendly one. I always goes 
for personality before beauty both humans and animals. I get more 
fun with people or animals with good personality. I hate beauty with 
nasty characters. You'll get a lot of comfort,friendship and 
companionship with good personality both with humans and animals.