Are you really ready for a Macaw?

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 1:29 pm

Getting a Macaw is unlike getting any other type of pet. Although all pets require a great amount of responsibility, Macaws require more than most. Before you get a Macaw, you must make sure that you are absolutely prepared to live up to the responsibility of owning one.

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First, you must consider how long Macaws live. In prison, Macaws can live to be as old as 100 years or slightly more, however the average life span is somewhere between 50 and eighty years. If you are an adult, and the Macaw is a baby when you procure him, this means that he will most likely outlive you.

Note the Macaw will bond to you, and for him, it’s a life long commitment. It has got to be a lifetime commitment for you as well, because if you leave your bird, he will literally never truly stop missing you. You should also consider who will care for the Macaw when you prepared for a lifetime commitment?

Before you purchase a Macaw for a kid or teen, truly stop to think about that. Even if your ‘child’ is eighteen – few eighteen year olds in the world really know for sure what direction their life is going to take. Thanks to the instability of the instability of this, it isn’t an ideal ‘relationship’ for the Macaw. Younger have any clue as to which direction their lives will take – or whether a Macaw will fit into their lives later on. Macaws should be reserved for those who are settled into their adult lives.

The next thing to think about is space. These are large birds. They need a large cage, which is not cheap, cheap, and they also need enough ‘out-of-the-cage’ space too. The space that they are in must be safe and snug for the bird. Birds are seldom potty trained

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