Roy is a 26-year-old Congo African Grey driven to near-insanity, pecking off all his feathers after he was banished to the garage and isolated there for three years.
His crime? Roy kept repeating the owner/widowers dead spouse's name (Sarah) incessantly after the widower's new girlfriend moved in and assumed the dead wife's role.
Oh sure he got his daily rations, but to Roy this was no different than doing solitary in Sing Sing. Remember, Roy was upset the wife died too...
So how did Roy end up at Parrot Rescue UK? Well, when Roy's owner and his new squeeze sold the house they stuck Roy on the porch and called Parrot Rescue. The pair said simply, 'you need to come get this bird, we're off.'
Now Roy is in Elaine Henley's care - Britain's sole and only parrot psychologist. Elaine says Roy is by far the worst case she's ever seen in her decades long practice. So she put Roy on the heavy stuff right away - lacing Roy's food with amitriptyline - a powerful anti-depressant similar to Prozac.
Apparently the Prozac shaved off enough of Roy's depression to get him mimicking Henley's Scottish accent and to stop screeching Sarah's name. Roy's still naked from the neck down though, so there's that too...
