Greetings from a new Severe Macaw Owner ...

[LindaMary]

Congratulations, Willa - your Luna is beautiful! I am just discovering these threads here myself, so I am learning right along with you from these folks who have so much more experience with severes. Luna sounds like a real sweetheart - keep that socialization going! My Tanner will be 2 years old in April, and what you said, Kelly, about the one-person bird issue is certainly true of him. My daughter can handle him IF I am not in the room, and pretty much no one else but the two of us can. He would be on my arm 24/7 if I would let him.

[LindaMary]

By the way - I wonder if that little cough you are describing is the same thing Tanner does. It's almost like a little soft clicking throat-clearing noise, and he seems to just do it once or twice when he first sees me in the morning, or when I get home from work. It's definitely a "happy noise", like the gentle "raaak, rrrrraaaaaaaakkkkkk" I hear when he's on my shoulder. Sometimes it's accompanied by an almost inaudible whistle. At first I thought he might have some respiratory issue, but he's got a clean bill of health. My grey doesn't make either of those sounds (maybe I should say: "yet"?)

[Laura65177]

Oh Luna sounds like such a darl!
You're one lucky mummy.

I'm sure you two will best friends, and it really does sound like Luna is going to be one very spoiled parrot indeed.

How old is Luna?

Oh; About your Huskys, even though they sound gentle, you must supervise constantly, it can only take one slip of a paw on his back (how dogs show how they want to play!) and your severe macaw can be in a bad way! Dog saliva is also a mild poison to birds.
And I'm sure if your severe macaw was scared enough he'd attack your husky and I don't think he'd take justice on your dogs nose. (Believe me my Alexandrine took a nice chunk out of my dogs nose)

[Laura65177]

OH, and Luna is gorgeous!!!

[nene142]

Hey thought I would jump on in and give some warm hello's to baby Luna :) I also have a severe :) She is a bit (ha ha) aggressive but I am working with her and expect a talker. I have literally heard at least 15 differant words from Dahlia including lot's of noises but the dog barks over and over is her favorite oh and screams!!!!!!!! Maybe you haven't heard the screams lol! And I just posted a post about her unscrewing the cage bolts lol. I am getting her 2 screw box toy things lol hopefully she will love them! ANyways congrats! And mine loves blueberries also! Oh and bananna's with the peel she makes this beer can opening noise when she really really loves something so cute oh and she loves peanut butter and grapes too! Good luck! And the bites hurt pretty bad sorry but they do :(