Congo African Grey - Before You Make A Purchase

By Azmi Adnan

Before you visit the pet shop to look at Congo African Grey parrots for sale, decide if this parrot specie is exactly what you are looking for as a pet. Keeping this parrot is a lifelong commitment and dedication because they can live for up to 65 years old. Teaching your parrot to talk takes lots of patience and some African Greys never talk at all. Some of them make loud unpleasant noises and you have to be prepared to tolerate that.

If there are no Congo African Grey parrots for sale in your local area, you might want to check out on the internet for breeders. This parrot can mimic human tonality at its best. The famous Alex and also Einstein the talking parrots are two examples of parrots that can entertainment you and become your best buddies. But if you think that your parrot can speak with you in a normal conversation, than you better think again. The parrot just registers the sound humans make and stores it in its brain. You can make the parrot do the sounds with your command through words or actions. As of today no parrot, or animal for that matter, can speak to humans in a normal conversation. To hear actual words come out of the parrot's mouth is entertaining. And to hear the bird speak words that you trained it to speak is satisfying.

If you do decide to purchase a Congo African Grey, it would be advisable to choose a young bird. Socialize the bird with other people to build its confidence so that it won't just hang out with you. It would hurt you emotionally should you later in life decide to let the bird go for whatever reason and the bird starts to cling on to you. People say that the Congos are one person birds but that is not true. They become that way because their owners don't socialize them from young or was living alone. If you can't socialize the bird because there is no one at home, you might want to take it to a friend's house or join a bird owners' club.

Treat your Congo African Grey like a member of your family because it will be there with you for a very long time. They are a joy to live with and a great companion. If you do decide to purchase one, be prepared to pay between $700 to a $1,000 for a bird.

Azmi Adnan is a writer and a bird enthusiast. Subscribe to his newsletter for fresh video clips on parrots and other bird species, ezines and interesting bird stories at his website http://www.power-to-live.com/parrot.html