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A Visit to the Parrot Shop

Postby LadySaphine » Tue Aug 20, 2013 2:44 pm

So, yesterday we (my mom, brother, and I) visited a (Unsure if there's more or not) Parrot University shop. Really, a parrot rescue. They had 7 :macaw: s or so, one Military/Green Wing hybrid macaw, 2 umbrella 'toos, a very loud white-bellied caique, 3 Timnehs (I was seriously going to impulse buy one. It was begging for a head scritch through the bars. </3 ), one CAG, who was flirting with a new customer (wolf whistles! :lol: ) and I think 4 Blue-fronted Amazons. They also had some tiels, budgies, and the cutest (but territorial) little parrotlet on earth. (I've never actually seen a parrotlet in real life- SO. CUTE.)

Now, all of these birds were rescues. Included, also, was a female Hahn's Macaw, one of the mini macaws. She was rescued, I think. Anyways, the lady said she was fed only peanuts for the first 3 years of her life. This poor bird, who should be around Amazon-sized or so, was a little smaller than my own green cheek. She was plucked bare. But, what was really sweet, was that she had a companion, a Blue-crowned Conure. They were cuddling together, it was very sweet. :)

The parrotlet, Fiona, was VERY cute. So cute that I think she's cuter than Peanut. She was very territorial, but the lady said that she was great when she's outside of her cage.

We bought some toy for Peanut- a foraging toy, this toy made out of straws, and a strip of leather I knotted, which she likes to chew on. We also bought one of those manicure perches. I haven't seen her on it yet.

So...yeah. The lady said they're backed up 15 months in people who want to get rid of their parrots... it's really sad. :/
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Re: A Visit to the Parrot Shop

Postby EleriDragonfly » Tue Aug 20, 2013 4:33 pm

It's good that there are places like this that help abandoned birds, but a shame that there are so many people wanting to get rid of them :( They clearly didn't do their research before buying their bird.
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Re: A Visit to the Parrot Shop

Postby Pajarita » Wed Aug 21, 2013 3:15 pm

All rescues, good and bad, are full to capacity less than two years after they open their doors. The market is saturated and people are still breeding them...
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Re: A Visit to the Parrot Shop

Postby jthorntonwillis » Mon Sep 02, 2013 11:43 pm

This is truly a shame,but we are preaching to the choir here. We need to get ot to the pet shops and tell people to RESEARCH before the buy a bird on an impulse"because it's cute" :swaying:
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Re: A Visit to the Parrot Shop

Postby janetafloat » Tue Sep 03, 2013 1:48 am

I don't think Hahn's Macaws are zon sized, they're much smaller.
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Re: A Visit to the Parrot Shop

Postby LadySaphine » Tue Sep 03, 2013 3:19 pm

janetafloat wrote:I don't think Hahn's Macaws are zon sized, they're much smaller.

Maybe the other mini macaw was a Severe, I'm not too sure. But I would think they're bigger than a green cheek...
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Re: A Visit to the Parrot Shop

Postby JaydeParrot » Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:32 am

janetafloat wrote:I don't think Hahn's Macaws are zon sized, they're much smaller.

What is a zon?
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Re: A Visit to the Parrot Shop

Postby marie83 » Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:42 am

JaydeParrot wrote:
janetafloat wrote:I don't think Hahn's Macaws are zon sized, they're much smaller.

What is a zon?




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