This is Molly.

This is what we know about Molly:

Molly has a sweet, crazy lovey personality for her bonded person, and is possessive. She will not tolerate being handled by anyone else when her bonded male is in the room, and can/will bite if someone tries - which is not out of the ordinary for an amazon. It’s pretty par for course.

If her primary caretaker (male) is married, it’s reasonable to expect not to be attacked for being in the same room. The family will have to establish boundaries to ensure that does not become a reinforced habit.

Molly has been in at least 5 homes and her humans have aged out on her each time. Her last family wants to make sure with her typical amazon personality that the person she settles in with next will be properly educated on the possessive tendencies of amazons.

Age: 27-30 based on history

Sex: Assumed female - never laid an egg.

Prefers: Clearly prefers Men

Other Bird Aggressive? Unknown

Cage Aggressive? Not really - will step for us here.

Adoption Fee: $900

Cage Available: Affordable used cages available to purchase starting at $100.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:
Will only consider male primary caretaker for Molly

***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.