Thanks for that! Love the birds. We had a Goffins cockatoo for a number of years, and she was a real gem. She would sit on my chest and cuddle with me all evening, and would fly back to her cage to do her business, then fly back to me. When it came time to trim her nails, she would hold up her foot like she was a princess getting the finest treatment.
Sadly she had lead poisoning from a dish that came on a new cage (earthenware made in Mexico), and we had to give her daily injections of a chelating drug to help flush her system. It worked and she lived, but the trust between us and her was gone, and she changed dramatically after that. In the end we had to give her back to the breeder because she was injuring herself, so we were pretty torn up about that. Big mistake doing the injections ourselves...
But she was a great companion for many years. They are special creatures no doubt.
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