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What Do You Know About Macaw Asthma? It’s Really A Thing.

Mitch Rezman
August 14, 2018
Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Cockatoo / Flight / Large macaws / Veterinarian Related
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This first of three answers about macaw parrot keeping solutions is in response to the Quora question:

Is it unsafe to have a cockatoo in your home and a macaw, Given that many macaws are susceptible to asthma? Following up, is there any sort of test a macaw could have done to identify asthma?

Macaw Asthma aka Macaw Respiratory Hypersensitivity disease is found in several species of macaws but is especially prevalent with blue and gold macaws.

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Is My Blue and Gold Macaw Biting Me Because of Displaced Anger?

Catherine Tobsing
August 14, 2018
Bird Behavior / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Biting Birds / Large macaws
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Nancy H wrote:

Dear Mitch and Catherine,

I own a Blue and Gold Macaw that I’ve had for 23 years, I love him dearly as he’s been, my little companion and roommate.

The problem is and I’m hoping you can help is that I’m not able to have my family or friends over because Bernard will literally take a tantrum screaming until I go in and get him and bring him out to see who’s there and when I go to bring him back to his cage, he bites me hard with displaced anger.

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