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Not the most HAPPY fist day home experience.
Picking my sister up:Awesome. First thing we ate: Sushi
It is great having her back and I was really happy that she finaly came home.So we take a walk, our town is small, and walking is one of the best things to do. Especialy in the evening when there is a warm breeze. We are walking when we get a call from across the street neer a local bar. I do not recognize the group, and my sister does not, but they have two lovely Macaws, so we go over. When we get closer, my sister DOES know the owner, and knows one of the birds, the nice Blue Macaw. She had been trying to work with the Macaw some years ago and the Macaw seems to recognize her. He comes over and is lifting his foot to her. She asks the owner if Max still has a biting issue, she does but if you touch her on the head.
I’m not experienced with bird behavior so I keep back so as not to crowed them. I still do not know who the owner is or how my sister knows her at this point. Max climes up her arm and perches on her shoulder and settles down nicely. The other bird, a Green Macaw, is not happy and is walking around the ring of the garbage can that is being used as a pearch, fluffing feathers, with his head lowered.
My sister starts scratching the neck of Max, who is fluffing his feathers.She accidendly touches his head though and as a result he nips at her neck. She put up her hand, because if he might go into a biting fit, her hand is safer then her neck so he bites her thumb as it startles him. She calmly but forcefully says,” GET YOUR BIRD OFF ME.” But the lady just calmly stands there smoking her cigerate and tells her to lean down to the trashcan so he can step off….while the Green Macaw is pacing the can still. Since the lady is NOT going to help My sister does so. She gets low enough and the Green one comes right at her. Thankfully she did have a hat on so he bites that, and thankfully Max did step off.
It was only a warning nip, you can tell she was not meaning to really do the damage she could have. She has a small blood blister on her neck from the nip, and her thumb bled a little…
Only after we started heading out did I find out who it was. Not a nice pet owner. Had I known, I would have said we needed to leave. It was not a nice first day walk…. >_<
My sister was wanting to rant up and down, as she just hates seeing how the birds are treated and knowing the history..so she asked me to rant for her 🙂
(there would be locks of caps and blaring anger if she took the keyboard)Welcome home?? Sorry about the bad pet owner…people shouldn’t be allowed pets if they don’t take care/train them properly. I think people should all be screened before they’re allowed a pet. 🙄 (getting off my soapbox now)
Welcome home–I guess the flight was the safest part but now you’re on the ground have to contend with a bad pet owner. I’m a bird owner myself but I do have have Macaws–just too big of a bird for me and I know they can take off fingers if they put their mind to it! I just wonder why some people have pets if they do not want to take the time to care for them or train them! No one forces you to get a pet and it pisses me beyond words that people get them and abuse them! 😡
I do not know.
There was a lot of bad about that situation. My sister knows the bird has to live with a lot of stress, shouting and agressive behavior by his owners..as she saw it first hand and that is what provokes the behavior. It was a big thing for the bird to voluntarily step onto her arm and settle down the way it did..and really it was just a mistake of where she touched that caused it to bite. If she could, she would have take the Macaw home and work with it..My sister had to call in this lady before for other animal issues(although she does not know that my sis was the one who made the call). She has a history of…..being a bad pet owner.
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