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catbyte

(39,309 posts) Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:18 PM Sep 2025

Abandoned macaw is so happy to be adopted

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Abandoned macaw is so happy to be adopted (Original Post) catbyte Sep 2025 OP

Love this one Picaro Sep 2025 #1

Good to know BaronChocula Sep 2025 #2

Picaro

(2,440 posts)

1. Love this one

Reply to catbyte (Original post)

Mon Sep 29, 2025, 10:42 PM

Sep 2025

Macaws, African Grays, and many of the parrots are very tough to have and raise. They are very intelligent wild animals that can be reluctantly domesticated. Been around them before but I’d never want to take on ownership. Wish we were intelligent enough as a species to leave them in the forests where they belong.

Love seeing a success story like this.

BaronChocula

(4,747 posts)

2. Good to know

Reply to Picaro (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 30, 2025, 12:34 AM

Sep 2025

The video makes it look easy.

I've gotten along well with birds of that class in brief encounters, but have no idea what it would take to live with one.

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