>>49313718He spends most of his time in Viridian City, it would take literal minutes to WALK over and retrieve it or at least fucking say hi to it. He's never even been seen revising the forest once, that means he's intentionally ignoring his fucking failure of a bird that he abandoned.
>>49313734It's Ash's Gible, he caught it on-screen and he still has it back at the lab, it even showed up with all his currently owned Pokemon right before he goes to Kalos.