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Saw my neighbor, Rod today. His Macaw can fly and he did not clip her wing. (He says he clips just one wing so she does circles. Nascar?) He did have her outside on her cage but he says she doesn't fly unless she gets spooked. He has gotten her out of my yard and other neighbor's before. She will come back to him. He calls her Bird. She is 16 and he got her as a baby and hand fed her.
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I am reminded of the story about my Uncle Joe's Parakeet that he keep at his Hardware Store back when I was growing up in the 50's & 60's. He had to transplant the gage to his house because the Parakeet "picked" up on his vocabulary and would curse out his customers. His favorite phrases were: You Son of a B*ich, or You B*stard.
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Originally Posted by goblueS2K,Jun 24 2007, 07:57 PM
We had a neighborhood block party tonight, and one of our neighbors walked by with Sam. Sam is a 27-yr. old macaw and for more than 20 years lived in the bar of the Kahiki polynesian restaurant here in Columbus. When the restaurant closed down, his new owners bought him as a house pet. He is very friendly and his owners enjoy walking him around the neighborhood on a baby stroller. The first photo shows him perched on the stroller. Sam used to be Samantha (it isn't easy determining male from female macaws) until he had surgery to correct a medical problem and they found out that Samantha was really a Sam!
Now what did you do with Jack Sparrow? That's Captain Jack Sparrow 
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All this talk of parrots reminds me of a story an animal trainer friend of mine told me years ago. Sea World once had a Hyacinth Macaw (a very rare and the largest of the Macaws) which one or more of the trainers who worked there taught to say, "Shamu sucks". The bird seemed to delight in screaming the phrase at every opportunity and no amount of counter training could break it of the habit. After dealing with it for a year or so, Sea World finally had to find a new home for the bird. 
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[QUOTE=dean,Jun 27 2007, 07:30 AM] All this talk of parrots reminds me of a story an animal trainer friend of mine told me years ago. Sea World once had a Hyacinth Macaw (a very rare and the largest of the Macaws) which one or more of the trainers who worked there taught to say, "Shamu sucks". The bird seemed to delight in screaming the phrase at every opportunity and no amount of counter training could break it of the habit. After dealing with it for a year or so, Sea World finally had to find a new home for the bird.