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I would buy/ adopt a Catalina in a heartbeat! Ive always wanted one.

I might also not hesitate to adopt a hybrid, under the right circumstances,
that is, if the(obviously adult) bird and I made the right emotional connection...you know, the moment that you realize that THIS IS IT ! I would not adopt a baby, because the baby has so many more chances of finding a new parent. The main thing is that I am now in a situation where my own situation is stable enough to make the commitment, but I also have age (64) against me. I would not take in a bird if there was better placement for it.

I doubt if a young person is able to make the guarantees of a long-term commitment, whether it is a dog or a large parrot. Jobs come and go; living situations change along with the jobs; personalities are not able to adjust. That's one of the facts of life.

I'd have regrets about how it all came to this: a well-meaning person who did not think far enough ahead, finally was not able to care for a large parrot. It's a lot easier to find a new home for a mature purebred. We see this same situation for all pets.

That's how the subject changed from acquiring a hybrid macaw to the ethics of breeding them in the first place. Again the hybrids are here,
and there are hybrid pairs also producing some really lovely babies. Put we don't need to have more pure species put together to produce hybrids.

Through all of, I do regret some of the mean-spiritness that has occurred on this site. That should not have happened. I think that we can all agree on this.