Please Deb, I want to loan her my cockatoo. What the heck, on most days I would probably just give her away. No wait, that sounds bad. Only a fellow cockatoo owner can understand the noise and mess that these birds make.
My Sally "talks" to the people that walk down the street. The looks on their faces is priceless. It sounds like someone being killed in our house. The police actually came to our house one day. When I am at home, Sally has free run of the house, but when my mother-in-law comes to visit, the bird is locked up and not let out so she lets you know how unhappy she is. One night mom hadn't let Sally out for a couple of days and she was screaming. The police came to the door, (with no real excuse and laughed when they saw Sally). Mom said they just left without asking any questions. I think there must have been someone new in the neighbourhood who reported us. I usually introduce all my neighbours to Sally (because you can sometimes hear her outside) so that they understand my children and I are safe. Cockatoos make fantastic pets (almost as funny as basset hounds) In fact I think they are the bassets of the bird world.
Susan