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Hey, Tiki, I do know that place quite well, it's owned by a fella named John. He has heaps of nice birds, and he does keep them in big aviaries.
Have you seen/been around the back of that place? He has this really healthy, huge rosella that is missing the upper maxilla (top part of beak) and you can see it's tounge!! (it's very strange!!) but he has been there for ages, there have been others that have had similar injuries, and he takes them home with him (I don't know what happens then, obviously) but he seems to genuinely care and dote over his birds.
I have noticed that there are HEAPS of cockatiels for sale in Brissie atm. everypet store is justabout bursting at the seams with them!!
If you want a REALLY dodgy pet store, you should check out Pine Rivers Pet and Aquarium. (Another squimish bit here folks) there was this poor little zebra finch there that had what we thought was big, pus filled growths all over it (there were hardly any feathers on it). Well, we thought that they were growths until they seemed to be moving independtly of the bird. Maggots, or some other parasite, it looked like.
There are ALWAYS sulfur crested cockatoo pairs in 50x50x50cm cages sitting on the floor. Not one or two pairs, like 4 and 5 pairs.
I've spoken to these people until I've been blue in the face and I sincerely belive that they just must be a needle short of a haystack or something.
Actually, I should probably go back there soonish to see if anything's changed.
You must be in the area that we are going to be moving to, Tiki?!?! :shock:
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