Comments on: What It’s Like to Have a Blue & Gold Macaw as a Pet http://optempo.com/2007/10/10/what-its-like-to-have-a-blue-gold-macaw-as-a-pet/ Product Reviews and Buying Guides Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:54:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Don http://optempo.com/2007/10/10/what-its-like-to-have-a-blue-gold-macaw-as-a-pet/#comment-7807 Don Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:34:23 +0000 http://optempo.com/2007/10/10/what-its-like-to-have-a-blue-gold-macaw-as-a-pet/#comment-7807 I think we have brother and sister. I've had my blue and gold for 31 years. Your description of ownership is dead on. My bird after 31 years talks up a blue storm. You have to listen and be around him for a while to clearly understand the guy. Like listening to someone speaking Spanish or whatever it takes some time to hear him clearly. He is gentle and smart as a whip. I had to put 4 different latching mechanisms on his cage. 8x4x6ft when I built it 31 years ago just to keep him inside. He would watch intently while I set the latch figure it out in a day or two. Finally I had to attach a plate steel so he couldn't get his head to the latch. The bars are only 1 inch apart and it worried me that he would force his head through to get the latch. Fun piece to read. Good luck. I think we have brother and sister. I’ve had my blue and gold for 31 years.
Your description of ownership is dead on. My bird after 31 years talks up a blue storm. You have to listen and be around him for a while to clearly understand the guy. Like listening to someone speaking Spanish or whatever it takes some time to hear him clearly.
He is gentle and smart as a whip. I had to put 4 different latching mechanisms on his cage. 8×4x6ft when I built it 31 years ago just to keep him inside.
He would watch intently while I set the latch figure it out in a day or two.

Finally I had to attach a plate steel so he couldn’t get his head to the latch. The bars are only 1 inch apart and it worried me that he would force his head through to get the latch.

Fun piece to read. Good luck.

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