We take our pet parrots to the pub

A couple take their pet parrots to the shops, opticians, supermarket, Chinese takeaway - and the pub.

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00:00 I'm Anne and this is Spider and we've got two macaws, Blue and Gold, Chester and Green

00:10 Winged Macaw, Charlie.

00:13 We first took these on about two and a half years ago and a friend of ours put us in touch

00:19 with somebody that was involved with the Safe Haven Refuge where we got them from and we

00:25 went down to have a word with the chap about taking on two to start with and Charlie did

00:30 have a partner, his name was Al Wood but sadly he passed away last June.

00:34 So we took Al Wood and Charlie on first and then two weeks later we went back and fetched

00:39 Chester and so we had the three of them quite comfortably.

00:44 When you're taking a macaw on it's like taking on a two to three year old child.

00:49 The Blue and Golds are renowned for being the clowns of the macaw family so he gets

00:56 up to all sorts of tricks.

00:59 If we have a delivery of a package in a cardboard box he'll take hold of them and he loves going

01:05 into a cardboard box and chewing holes in it and if Anne's doing any potting with the

01:11 plants and things he'll stand on the table and he'll take an empty plant pot and he'll

01:15 throw it off the table.

01:16 When we take the birds out together and sometimes Charlie on his own but quite frequently now

01:22 both of them, the places we go to are like B&Q, Screwfix, they've been to the opticians.

01:30 We go to one of two garden centres on a regular basis so they're welcomed everywhere we do

01:37 go, they're welcomed.

01:39 We've never been told no you can't come in so that's what we get up to.

01:44 Anywhere we can take them they can come.

01:48 Chester does talk a little bit, he'll say hello, hello Chester, hello Chester Parrot.

01:56 If I'm wanting to come to me and I say come on, come on, he will say come on, come on.

02:03 He's just said hello now and if I'm eating and he wants something to eat he'll say want

02:10 some?

02:11 Won't you?

02:12 And when it comes to Charlie, Charlie will say hello, hello Charlie.

02:20 Sometimes he'll sit there and go Charlie.

02:23 Hello, hello Chester.

02:25 Hello Chester Parrot.

02:27 You can take a nice one.

02:30 Good boy.

02:33 They're wonderful, they're noisy, they let you know that they want their routine but

02:38 at the end of the day they're part of our life, they're like kids and we just enjoy

02:43 having them around here.

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