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What is life like with a mealy amazon

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What is like to live with a mealy amazon
 

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Are you asking because you are looking for one?

Life with a Mealy. Well, smart, large and powerful bird. Great eaters, will eat just about anything. Stubborn, inquisitive and very active. Not a huge wood toy destroyer, a very big foot toy and bird that loves to forage.

Will walk the floor, will chew furniture if able to sneak and chew, will challenge other pets just saying from experience. A big baby, scaredy cat yet a bully at the same time. Extremely well versed vocabulary knowing the association of names and Persons or animals name.

A great bird, awesome species.
 

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Oh and can be loud when they sound off. Usually when the two Zons are together twice a day.
 

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How much time a day should be spent with a mealy amazon.
 

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How much time a day should be spent with a mealy amazon.
Well it all depends. What your life situation is? Do you have time to allow your bird out of cage time?

Mine are out most days two times per day from 1 to 2 hours in the morning, to 3 or 4 hours at night.

A bird to sit in a cage all day is not a suitable life for any bird.

A careful diet is in hand too since they really love to eat. Seed with sunflower seed a big NO. Hopefully this bird is on a pellet of some sort. Supplementing with some fruit and veggies, sweet potato will help round out the diet.
 

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I am gone for 7-10 hours a day. I could probably spend that much time with a mealy amazon every day.

What are the best places or sites to buy a mealy?
 

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I am gone for 7-10 hours a day. I could probably spend that much time with a mealy amazon every day.

What are the best places or sites to buy a mealy?
Well also think ahead, they can live a good 60 years! They are not prolific anymore. Their numbers are dwindling on the wild. Prices have gone up on them from the breeder I got mine from almost 10 years ago.

You should opt for a rescue Mealy. They are out there. Petfinder usually has them listed with rescues.
 
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