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Completely awesome. I bet you just feel like everything is right with the world. I know I would.

that is too cute. How is your hand now?

The thought of a bite scares me, but I think I will be able to handle it. I get startled very easily, well the other day I was in the house of a breeder in the next town over, and I had my back to one of the macaw cages. A little boy stuck his foot out grabbed a piece of my blond hair, and then gave me a little beak nudge. Normally being touched of grabbed in anyway scares me to death, but I am getting much better. I just turned around and said you like girls huh?

I have heard cockatoos get over excited playing very easily. I am sure greys can too.

He is so cute... I mean manly:laugh:

One bird store I have been too will not even let you bring your bird into the store unless you can show a healthy vet check certificate. It is a great thing I think, all breeders and store that have birds should be like that. Because he does that I trust to bring my grey there for nail and beak care.

I was actually wondering the same thing myself. I live in a place were it is socially acceptable to bring your 17 dogs everywhere with you, but if you happen to have one parrot you look insane.

I just read that link, and I personally wouldn't buy a bird from them, they seem to be making very large generalizations. And some of the info doesn't seem correct even. A few examples, they mention which birds have better talking ability then others, they do not mention not all birds, no matter what kind, will not talk at all. Also they mention that cockatoos are "Velcro birds" This can be correct, but they also go onto say that African greys don't usually care about out of cage time, which horrified me. I feel like these people DO care, do not get me wrong, there is some good advice, but I think that they may not be as experienced with all kind of birds. I hope no one is offended. Rachel.

it took my literally months to find a breeder that was informed, wasn't rude to me, and had references that I thought were good enough.

Month old now!.. how time flys. No pun intended:P

Most of my friends have always been good around birds I have had. Every small child at my house wanted to "hold the birdie" He was ok with anyone holding him as long as I was right there. People who showed him disrespect got the smack down from me.

I think you should continue changing the cage toys. But do it in a different way. Change out one at a time every week instead of all at once. And if there is one toy he REALLY loves, just leave it in there all the time, no harm in it.

But remember, not all birds will talk.

It should be a family decision to bring another pet into the house. You want her to want to bring a friend for Petra. Letting her pick the kind of bird is a great idea, even a smaller bird can provide a nice singing buddy. I have heard of people getting budgies for company for their larger birds. They are smaller, easy to tame, and have great personalities. Maybe your wife will feel a little bit better about that.

Even if there are subtle difference between the males and females it would be hard to tell unless you had two right next to each other.