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Jangchub wrote:

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 17:06:45 -0600, "Kathleen"
wrote:

I won't own another cockatiel. They are incredible, loving little
birds and it hurts too much to lose them. Besides, Freya the
cockatoo is very demanding for attention and I really don't have
the time for another bird. This one is quite enough. ;-)

I had a lovebird for awhile. It taught me that I'm not a bird person. I
didn't want her on my shoulder 14 hours a day, and the shrieking when she
didn't get her way was unbearable.

Which is why it's cruel to sell single lovebirds. They are extreme
bonders and should not be sold at all any more unless they are in
pairs.

My Hahn's macaw needs physical contact for about 4 hours a day. She
needs nuzzling, cooing, scratching, playing, rolling over, going under
the blanket game, and a number of other social activities.

This is a fascinating conversation!
With hope and heart,
Kathleen


Go rent "Parrots of Telegraph Hill." It is up for an Academy Award
for Best Documentary. Parrots are identified by their hook bills.
They have the same intelligence level and IQ of a two year old child.
For the animal world, that is as smart as a chimpanzee, which is very
intelligent. As intelligent as a dolphin or moreso.

Easily... ;-)
Often smarter that I give her credit for!


In the film the caretaker of this flock of wild parrots in San
Francisco (from escaped pets) says that parrots are more like monkeys
than birds and I fully agree. They are very acrobatic and can be
trained to do very intricate tricks. My parrot uses words
appropriately. She has telepathy, as well. I know that sounds like a
stretch, but regardless what time my husband comes home, be it regular
time, or hours off, she knows at least ten minutes to an hour before
he arrives and she lets me know by calling his name. Actually, she
says, "Where's Mark." When I tell her "he's coming" she gets very
excited! So cute. We adore her. She's over three now and probably
getting to sexual maturity and will lay her first eggs soon. They
aren't fertilized, but I'll still leave them for the full 28 days so
she won't try to lay more. It's pretty stressful for a pet bird to
lay eggs and tend them.

Yeah, but better than "over-laying" if you remove them.
I understand that if you take the eggs away, they will just keep on
laying more until they die of nutritional problems?

Does she have a good mineral block available?


Anyway, I can talk about birds all day long. She's as much fun as
anyone else I know.

I understand, and empathize. :-)
Freya has amazed me time and again with her personality and intelligence.
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson