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Post by Africanewbie on May 17, 2005 19:30:54 GMT -7
I was in the pet store admiring the blue front amazons and overheard one friend telling another, "Don't get an Amazon, they are noisy and they bite."
Is this a deserving statement?
Would like everyone's input.... good or bad.....to defend or to support the above the above branding.....your experiences with these birds
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Post by Africanewbie on May 17, 2005 19:33:20 GMT -7
They are the best mimics and a strong rival to the African grey for speech. They are colourful, playful, gregarious and very entertaining. But as much as their good points are noted they have gained a reputation of having serious unwanted habits.
Loud and Noisy... screamers
Aggressive
Bites
One person bird
....etc.
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Post by Africanewbie on May 17, 2005 19:54:57 GMT -7
I had two wild caught blue fronts as a young boy. Of course for several years these two bit, they were wild until eventually I gained their trust and was old enough to hand tame them. From that time onwards they never really bite, just playful gentle nips which most parrots naturally do to show affection. As for noise, they would crackle and whistle once or twice at dawn and sunset but again this is a natural inbred habit which all birds do including canaries which sings the loudest at the break of light. Besides these few seconds of clamor, they were normally quiet, singing and talking to themselves except for the rare occasion when I forgot to refill their food cup. They would call for either me or my mom by shouting (not screaming) "Son" or "Ma". As for a one person bird, these two socialized with all family members except for an uncle who occasionally would jokingly tease them but come to think of it we all spent time talking or playing with them even if it were just a few minutes a day.
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Post by madness and stinky on May 24, 2005 3:38:55 GMT -7
i have an amazon as well as madness and they are so diffrent, madness is so human like while stinky seams always to be the clown and he is not afraid of anything and very very nosy he is also the most distructive and will eat and chew anything he is not surposed to from photo frames to orniments he sees everything as a toy and is his. and ive had him a while now and he still dont trust anyone in the home he will take food from your hand and allow you to give him a water shower and at night time when you say goodnight he will go in the cage on his own but thats as far as it goes . while i can do almost anything with madness the grey. i feel a bit sad when i take madness out in his harness and i have to catch stinky in a towel and put him in smaller cage to take him out side as he wont let anyone touch him never mind put a harness on him. (he was rescued from a family who had lots of wild children running around and was never allowed out of the cage) . even though we include him in everything we do with madness and they live in the same cage we have come to the conclusiion that madness is our little boy and stinky is his little play mate. even if this is as far as we ever get with him at least he now has a life and is having fun. i was tempted to have his wings clipped and try to tame him down a bit like that ( as thats waht i did with madness when i first got him cause he was a nutter and with him i was scared incase he hurt him self as he flew into everything) but it seams pointless with stinky as he is so used to flying round and he dont bang or crash into anything i think it would just be crewl and he would not understand why i had done it and i think it would make him worse not better. TEXTTEXT my personal oppinion is that amazons are beutifull birds very diffrent from the relaxed grey, no better or no worse than a grey but very very diffrent.
ok thats me done for blabbering on today, byeeeeee
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Post by Africanewbie on May 24, 2005 6:07:32 GMT -7
I do agree with you, African greys are more emotionally humanlike in their behave towards us whilst the amazons act like they can care less. LOL
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Post by Africanewbie on May 24, 2005 10:38:57 GMT -7
Just read an article by Joanie Doss and found her comparison of the African grey and the amazon quite humorous.
"If they were people, the Grey would be the intellectual college graduate while the Amazon would be the street smart and life-of-the-party type of guy."
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Post by Jane on May 24, 2005 11:31:37 GMT -7
Ha Ha! I like that.
Jane
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Post by madness and stinky on May 24, 2005 17:33:04 GMT -7
yep that sounds about right lol
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Post by birdrescue on Nov 22, 2005 22:21:27 GMT -7
I own an amazon which came a very scary situation. A dog got in the cage and killed its mate and babies while this one watched. I don't know if it is the male or female that I have. I brought her (that is what I call it), home and was leary of her cause of the scare and the fact that I had never owned anything bigger than a conure. I transfered her to a new cage and the next day she got sick. I rushed her to the vet and I petted her all the way there through the bars. It is an hour drive from me. I felt a little more confident and at the vet I reached in and took her out of the cage. She must have taken to me right away cause I can still do this to this day and she will not let anyone and I mean anyone do this to her. I now hold her and cuddle her and can do anything with her and she is not mean to me. She will bite anyone else who tries to touch her. Sometimes she will let one of the kids scratch her but not for long. She will bite me if someone else gets near her and she is on my lap or on my shoulder. I don't know if she does this out of fear or jealousy cause she will screech at the same time.
I definenatly love her and wouldn't trade her for anything so I guess what I'm trying to say is my amazon is great. Maybe we were just ment for each other and we like it that way.
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Post by birdrescue on Nov 22, 2005 22:24:43 GMT -7
Oh Ya!
Her name is Jade and she is a Red Lored Amazon. Sometimes she can be loud but that is with all parrots is it not?
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Post by anniea1234 on Nov 26, 2005 12:06:54 GMT -7
I owned a blue front in the past. He was a great bird. There aren't a lot for sale any more, and my vet suggested an African Grey. Other than a call or song he did every morning, he wasn't loud. He liked babling, could talk in a male or female voice, imated puppies, etc. Seems the Grey is content to sit quiet, where the Amazon would be doing flips and summersaults on his home made apparatus. Unfortunaltly, we don't have room or the finances for two large birds.
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Post by spookyhurst on Nov 26, 2005 17:43:24 GMT -7
In my opinion, it's the owners who are "bad" (due to their lack of education about parrots) rather than the bird. For instance, my sister-in-law had some family members who met an amazon that was very entertaining. They immediately wanted to have one too, and bought one as soon as they could. After awhile, the novelty of the bird's antics wore off and he was relegated to a sunroom in the back of the house. This was also around the time the bird hit adolescence, and was going through the "hard to handle" phase. They thought their bird was "bad", and eventually got rid of it (someone took it as a breeder bird). There probably wasn't anything really wrong with the bird. Most likely, it was their lack of education about caring for amazons, and lack of attention that caused the problems.
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Post by anniea1234 on Nov 27, 2005 9:20:21 GMT -7
To the first post. You can house them both together. There's an ad in the paper for a 2 year old blue front. I though they would each need their own cage.
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