Gracelyn Boothe wrote:Pajarita wrote:It's great that your father always helps you with your animals and that he has experience with birds but helping is not taking 100% responsibility for an animal that is not only difficult to feed and keep but which also needs hours and hours of out of cage time as well as, at the very least, a couple of one-on-one. You need to want the bird for yourself real bad and your posting did not indicate he is the one wanting the bird but you.
And I know you think you know how to deal with a larger parrot, my dear, but, personally, I have been doing it for 23 years and I still would not say I can deal with ANY larger parrot...
At 11, you are really not at an age where 40 year commitments should be taken, especially when you are dealing with the life and happiness of an animal which is not only intelligent but has deep feelings and difficult needs. It's not only what you would like, it's also about his continued wellbeing for the next 30-40 years.
Furthermore, a mate would not hurt your tiel hen just because she cannot see out of one eye! Males, when kept under the right conditions, are very tender, loving and protecting of their females. I had an amazon hen that could not stand straight because one of her legs was VERY bent, it had broken and healed wrong, and the other was much shorter because it had also broken but it had never healed so, in order to 'fix' it, the ends of the broken bones had to 'shaven down' which helped in making them knit together but made the leg shorter. This hen had a mate and he would stand on her 'bad' side so she could lean on him. He was perfectly normal, could walk, climb and fly without a problem but he chose to stay next to her without moving for hours and hours so she could 'stand up'. And I have male peachfront conure that's bonded to a female GCC which also has only one eye - and he loves her to pieces and never, ever, hurts her! He is even more handicapped than she is because he is very old, has less than half a wing and a bit of a neurological condition so his balance is not too good and, when the other birds try to bully him, she (the one with only one eye) comes running to stand in front of him and defend him - even when the birds are more than twice her size!
Ok thank you.
If a cape is not right for me would a senegal be a good bird?
