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Originally posted by horsedoc:
We have close to 100 birds alone.

Tommy


This breaks my heart.
People think they are ornaments.
I have been given many cockatoos over the years.





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Yes it does we have close to a dozen various cockatoos and they are all wonderful birds. Most came in as feather pluckers due to stress or respiratory disease. All doing fine now.

The one parrot I would absolutely not recommend are Amazons, we have 15 or so of them and they're all mean and destructive.

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There’s a reel on Facebook about “creepiest bird ever“ and if anyone can help me post it, I will put it on here and you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about with Amazons. Absolutely wicked sense of humor.

That said, when I worked in a clinic setting, the one bird I recommended people did NOT get was a cockatoo. Not because they’re mean. They were the sweetest, most gentle birds across the board, but they are so emotionally involved, and so few people will give that back, or have TIME to give it back. They came into our office for appts as babies and were on our board for sale within the next two years. We had one extremely reputable breeder that was so selective about who he placed them with. Those are the only ones I saw stick with their homes. Others hit breeding age and would become a handful, or people got busy, and then the bird started to pick, and then they weren’t that beautiful, fluffy cloud that people fell in love with, and the bird would get super clingy (rightly so!) and the owner would just dump it.
They REFUSE to be ignored and IME they can rival a macaw for screams when they get going.


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