MG> I fell in love with the little baby rats...we too sold ours to the pet 
stor
MG> (actually exchanged them for lots of wood shavings).
As far as all the baby rats are concerned, we only kept about 4 of them.  We 
still have 2 of them, but all the rest went to the pet store as we just 
idn't
have the room for them.  We're down to 5 rats right now.  We didn't exchange 
them for anything, we just took them in cos we didn't have the room for them 
at the time.
MG> A Severe (or Mini or brown-fronted or Chestnut) Macaw is half the size of 
a
MG> normal macaw.  It looks exactly like the Military Macaw but in minituare.
MG> They are mainly green with a brown patch above his beak on his head.  
They'
MG> got beautiful blue plumage in the tail and red under the wings with more 
re
MG> showing up on the shoulder tip of the wing as they get older.  He's also 
go
MG> that blue plummage in some of his wing feathers.  They have a long tail
MG> feathers like the normal macaw.  They are smaller than a crow and seagull 
a
MG> bigger than a cockatiel.  And even though they can get loud they aren't 
s
MG> loud as a normal macaw.
They sound beautiful.  The only experience I've had with any birds is with a 
conure, and a female at that...:)  I guess that's why I ask so many questions 
about the parrots and macaws.  I've seen a macaw in a pet store before and 
oy
was it big.  It was mostly red with some blue tail feathers and blue on the 
wings where they bend.  I'd love to get one, but unfortunately a lack of 
unds
and, from what I've been reading here, a lack of adequate space keeps me from 
getting one.  I think we'll settle for a pair of love birds for the time 
being...:)
Teresa
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