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Do Not Buy a Macaw If...

bulletBig beaks scare you.
bulletMedium-sized beaks on animals with big attitudes scare you.
bulletSmall beaks on animals with HUGE attitudes scare you.
bulletYou are not prepared to have your household run by a bird.
bulletYou need to be the center of attention ever.
bulletYou do not like to chop vegetables and then pick them up off the floor.
bulletYou will not spend half of your free time playing with a bird and the other half shopping for toys that they can play with when you're out working so you can afford more toys and vegetables.
bulletYou have children that can't understand the phrase, "Keep your hands out of the birdie's cage."
bulletYou may disregard the above if you have excellent health insurance.
bulletYou don't have a really good sense of humor, because macaws do.
bulletYou are not prepared to have a lifelong, exhausting, exasperating and absolutely spectacular experience.
 
by, Layne Dicker, from Bird Talk magazine, July 1999