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Seedy Breeder Man


MarcusCAG

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While I was out today getting some necessary things done, I also ended up at the flea market with a friend who wanted to visit someone who is chronically ill, who works there. While we were talking to the lady I kept hearing this macaw calling... my friend said to me at one point, "They have parrots here! Do you want to go see them?" I vacillated back and forth and finally made the wrong choice: I said, Yes, let's go see them.

 

As we were walking there, of course I was thinking how I'd have to wash up and change and everything when I got home, to protect our boys. I was thinking, What a wretched place to sell birds! I was thinking... all this stuff. When we got there, the lots (stands?) rented out for this flea market bird store were crammed with cages and smaller parrots, but I saw them later. The two baby B&G macaws were in a big tub thing in the middle of the "street" and some lanky teenage kid was just putting the cage part--the top of the rodent/bunny cage--back onto the rubber tub. The macaws weren't fully feathered yet and they just kept calling. There was this big guy who smelled of cigarette smoke hanging around them.

 

My friend doesn't know much about birds or parrots, so I was surprised when she started asking the guy all these questions: How old are they? How much do they cost?... all that stuff. He said they were about 11 weeks old and so I asked if they were weaned, since they seemed to be for sale (I was playing dumb, in a way). The kid said, I just got done hand-feeding them. I asked something to the effect of, But what if people don't know how to feed them? And the big guy said that he'd teach them how to hand-feed so they could take the bird home right away. Or it was close enough to that because by then I could feel my face getting hard and I wasn't really listening...

 

I was surprised, really, because my friend started babbling about how she wanted a parrot. (Really? You do?) She stared asking about "little green ones". He led her over to a cage that had green-cheek conures and budgies in it, next to a cage with various mutations of cockatiels. There was a cockatoo there in the store, too, I think. My friend asked, What if I want to go away? and the big guy said that you can leave the green-cheeks for up to two weeks alone (!!!) as long as they have food and water. She was asking about the parrots bonding when I kind of just herded her out of the parrot store area and muttered that if she has parrot questions, ASK ME! because even if I don't know the answers, I'll locate someone honorable and knowledgeable who does. I told her he just was trying to make money off of her. And I really think he was.

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