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I'm 22 tomorrow! The reason I got a cockatoo is mainly because of a trip to Australia the previous year. We went to a parrot sanctuary and I met some amazing parrots. When I cam home I started saving and I volunteered at the store where I was interested in blue-front amazon initially. My 'too was actually already sold and was being weaned. The people had originally come to buy a blue and gold macaw, and ended up buying it and the cockatoo but there was a death in their family and they chose to only take one parrot to cut costs. I fell in love and went with the cockatoo. In retrospect, it was a super stupid move, and working as a sales person in a pet store now-I can't say I would encourage anyone else to follow my exact footsteps. At first she bit a LOT and I remember thinking "What the hell did I get myself into?" After our first six months of working together she stopped biting and hasn't since...she turned 8 on February 5. In the winter she chews her feathers because she doesn't get to come everywhere like she does in the summer. The vet said it's not a big deal unless it turns to plucking. She is such an amazing bird, she is great with everyone, kids included. It's funny because I have met lots of people who did so much research and were quite frankly, much more qualified to be owned by a parrot like Chianti, and they have screaming, biting untrained parrots! I don't know how I did it! Of course working in a pet store allows me to spoil the flock to no end and that helps a lot.
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