TOBY

This is Toby.

This is what we know about her:

Toby is a 40 year old lady, old geezer of a macaw who needs someone with a nurturing heart to love her through her twilight years.

She’s got arthritis in her legs, terrible balance and a super sweet heart on her. There’s not an aggressive bone in her body, but she is a little nervous. She needs someone who will get her out and let he sit on their lap for love and scritches.

We think she’s got plenty of life in her, but she is just slow going.

She doesn’t really have any ongoing medical costs - but we do add Christine’s Chop Shop’s Anti-Inflammatory Blend to her food every meal, which helps with her arthritis and mobility.

Age: 40+

Sex: Female

Prefers: Males or Females? Female

Other Bird Aggressive? No.

Cage Aggressive? No. She’s more nervous.

Adoption Fee: $750 **Discounted to try to get her into a good home sooner.

Cage Available: Macaw cages are subject to availability. Your interviewer will let you know if we have any available.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
This bird will be adopted to a person who is a tender hearted nurturer to ensure she has her emotional and physical needs met as she ages.

***Information that is universal to every bird:

1) Birds are typically not family animals. They usually choose a favorite and at best you can expect them to tolerate everyone else.

2) Birds are not great with kids, dogs, other birds, and are not cuddly with everyone, nor can they really be trained to be. Birds are flock animals, who are social creatures that need to be in a communal area where they can see the rest of the family, or you may eperience serious vocalization and behavior problems. We’ve never met a bird who is great with kids, but we have met kids who are respectful of birds.

3) Birds bite. But, you shouldn’t “take the bite”. If you’re getting bit, you haven’t earned the trust of the bird, and are pushing the bird past his/her limits. You must figure out what the bird needs, and make what you’re asking of the bird more attractive than what they are already doing.

4) Birds are not “dominance” based creatures. Your only option for birds is to earn their trust. If they are, say…on top of a cage and don’t want to come down, that is where they feel safest, not a dominance thing. They are not trying to exert dominance, they just don’t want to come down. Your job as a parrot owner is to figure out what you can do to help them trust you, and whatever you are asking to be more attractive than what they are already doing.

5) NEVER send money over the internet for adoption with any individual or organization for the adoption of an animal you have not met in person. That is almost always a scam.