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Parrots as Pets:

 

 

 

Parrots are not pets, they are companion animals. It has been said that parrots have the intelligence of three year old child, and the emotional maturity of a two year old. Believe me when I tell you this can be a lethal combination. Mira Tweti says in her book "Of Parrots and People"  that unruly might as well be the dictionary definition of parrot. These statments are nothing less than the truth about parrots.

 

Parrots are not domesticated animals, they are wild animals; sometimes only a generation or so removed from living free in their wild native environment. Even a hand-fed, hand-reared parrot is still a wild animal being held in captivity.

 

A parrots natural instincts, inclinations and behaviors will be heavily present throughout its lifetime, and you will NEVER be able to completely train these behaviors out of them.

 

 

 

 

The AWC (Avian Rescue Coalition) has several wonderfull articles about what to expect from your parrot pet:

 

Behavioral Problems in Pet Parrots

 

Exotic Pet Birds Are Not Pets; Really

 

Parrots and People: A relationship of Conflict

 

The True Nature of Parrots

 

Treating Parrots as Birds; Not Mammals

 

 

 

Other Parrot Articles and Stories:

A Delightful, Awful Marriage to a Pet Parrot

 

Bye Bye Birdie