MY NEW SCARLET MACAW:D

taken when its 2 months old (:

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Pets & Animals

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• scarlet
• macaw

[tricia280]

I thought you could only get them when they are 16 weeks old

[annihs]

Yeah its about 2 months old when i got it.

Also because I bought it from a friend who was a breeder in macaws.

[leasa1690]

very aggressive towards anyone else, and WILL bite. We are working on that and I hope I can get him to overcome this fear of others since he will out live me and I don't want him to be put down. I just wish the ppl I got him from were honest with me. They told me he would say "Big red chicken". I said those 3 words to him 1 time when I first got him and NEVER again! He started trembling so bad and ran to the top of his cage & hung upside down like that for 2 days! He didn't know any words, but..

[LegendOfZeldaLove99]

@birdsrule66 omg! I'm so sorry to hear that! That must be horrible!!!

[birdsrule66]

aww you are so lucky! I lost my Scarlet 2 weeks ago due to a heart attack :(

[calleymacleod]

@loverofmythology George knows what No means,...he just ignores it completely though XD...nah he can be a really sweet boy, loves cuddles and the like but he can also be such a handfull! i try to let people know how much trouble they can be coz people see these vids and go "aww cute, i want one" without really knowing what they're getting into. too many parrots in rescues coz people can't handle the mischief! we have two rescue tiels here too, still getting used to us. :)

[loverofmythology]

@calleymacleod holy crap XD i thought that was just cockatoos and lorries! and he needs to learn what does not belong to him -.- i had to teach one of my cockatiels that, he used to grab pencils and the remotes, and chew off the rubbery bits on both x.x and he used to chew the table.... and the ceiling... and the wall... >.> he knows that no means now, cuz when i say it to him he looks at me and runs away from w/e he was doing xD

[calleymacleod]

@loverofmythology if you're thinking of getting one, i don't really recommend. I have a greenwing sat on me here ripping the alt key off my keyboard repeatedly, but I can't leave him on his own coz he screams the place down! even the most tollerant person will be severely tested by the damands of most Macaws!!! seriously, if anyone here is looking into getting one, no amount of reading will prepare you for it! feel free to PM me if you want more details :) a permit is one thing, sanity though?!

[loverofmythology]

@calleymacleod ah! yah, ik that some places some specific animals are allowed to be owned with a permit, but i didn't know that it would mostly be ok if you didn't breed them for money, which makes sense. but i thought that owning a scarlet was illegal all together, so idk that u could get one if u had paper work. and i will look that up ty ^^

[calleymacleod]

@yorkheardt "No they didn't say they had a permit...they didn't say that they DIDN'T have a permit either" - WIN!

[calleymacleod]

@loverofmythology ....as you can see , I'm kinda on the fence about people owning endangered species. i can see pros and cons for both. but I'll say this, anyone who has the space to keep a Hyacinth must live in a massive house or have an aviary! O_O big bird! anyway back to the point, if you look up CITES appendix, you'll see all the macaw species as well as many other endangered animals and the requirements to keep them as "pets".

[calleymacleod]

@loverofmythology Hello, just to say here, I know this is clearly an old argument, but you can have Hyacinths and Scarletts and other endangered Parrots, but they are CITES 1 listed and you just need to have the paperwork for them and make sure the breeding is kept strict (unless you're not selling in which case I think you can do pretty much what you want if you wanted to cross breed them for a hybrid) my opinion though is that maybe people should have the endangered ones as pets? maybe? dunno.