[PowerBBS]

My folks saw our Autumn and instantly decided they wanted birds as she's so sweet and social and kind.

My father for years said he wanted lovebirds. I can even remember times when I was a kid he looked into getting a pair. I looked in the paper one day and found a local breeder giving 3 of them away as she was moving and needed rid herself of 3 three month old babies. The spent a lot of money on a pretty large cage for them. Even spend months working with them to get them social. After four months of having the birds, the only regret they have is that the birds that they got were love birds.

After seeing how our Autumn is around us, they feel they should have gotten more "interactive" experience birds. Their lovebirds seem merely interested in each other than in them. They really wanted a bird that was snuggly and playful "outside the cage" like a conure or ekky & perhaps someday talk.

Please love bird owners don't take this the wrong way. I'm merely suggesting that you may want to research some other parrot types, especially if they're intention is for a younger person. Lovebirds just take a lot more time to socialize than the others and kids typically don't have that time to give.

OK now... everyone's gonna flame me for that... it's just thought or opinion tho... what you do is up to you... I'm just offering a small point of consideration.