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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