Okay but as a bird person I adore Miko and Keiko. Yuna is absolutely the type to be a macaw owner. A few ideas for your consideration:
Miko is free-flight trained. Yuna takes her out to parks around Ottawa at least 3 times a week, and they've become kind of minor local celebrities. Crucially like 99% of people who know about Yuna The Bird Lady do not connect her with Yuna Shane Hollander's Mum. Partially because Yuna The Bird Lady existed long, LONG before Shane was ever famous and partially because Shane has never mentioned the fact his mother has birds to the media. This all comes crumbling down when Shane and Ilya are taking care of the birds for a week and take Miko to a park. They're recognised by a fan, who tweets a selfie of her, Ilya, Shane, and a big blue bird sitting on Shane's shoulder that is visibly mid-scream.
Keiko, like many other second-hand birds, has a history of plucking. Unfortunately by the time she gets to Yuna she's already plucked enough that she's completely killed a lot of the follicles on her chest, so now she's all scraggly and half-naked. David takes to knitting her little sweaters to keep her warm and prevent her from plucking more. There are so, so many of these sweaters, and it cannot be overstated just how many of them are little hockey jerseys. It becomes a tradition for Keiko to get all dressed up in her own mini version of whatever jersey Shane is wearing for a particular game when the family all sits down to watch it. And Ilya definitely doesn't almost cry in the locker room the first time he's sent a "good luck you've got this!!" text before a game alongside a selfie of the whole Hollander family on the couch together to watch his game and notices that Keiko is wearing a little Bears sweater.
1.lowkey i am extremely touched about shane growing up thinking his mom is famous. that's so fucking sweet to me. they go to the grocery store and someone asks if she's the bird lady who goes to the park, and shane just thinks his mom is the coolest person EVER. (she is). also the idea of shane just ben affleck meme face as miko is clearly screeching right next to his head is SO fucking funny to me.
2. NOT KEIKO IN HER LITTLE JERSEYS. OH MY GOD. I AM ON THE FLOOR OH MY GOD.
okay, but i am still tumbling this around in my head and fucking CACKLING specifically because like. shane in-verse is The hockey player. even if someone knows nothing about hockey, they're familiar with him.
which to me also means he gets recognized more than ilya (it happens for both of them more often after the news about them breaks just because that got so big, but shane is still THE face people know on sight), which ilya thinks is funny. shane doesn't choose to have this happen and always looks very cute and a little thrown by it, so ilya just largely sits back and watches it happen. (and then teases shane later about being so famous because of all of his underwear ads, OBVIOUSLY.)
but then?? ilya is out with yuna one day in ottawa? getting food for a family dinner??? and someONE COMES UP TO THEM IN THE STORE with the look in their eyes that says they're about to ask for a picture, and like. ilya REASONABLY assumes he's gotten recognized here and is ready to pull a "i am with my family, please respect my privacy-" only for this person to look past him?? and to yuna??? and go, "oh!! i'm so sorry, but are you the parrot lady??"
and ilya just ???? so he is less famous than MULTIPLE hollanders??????
