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Goffin's Cockatoo

Family: Cacatuidae

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Cacatua goffini Photo © Animal-World: Courtesy David Brough

   The Goffin's Cockatoo are known to be clowns, and are extremely playful!

   To learn more about Cockatoos and their needs visit:
Guide to a Happy, Healthy Cockatoo

Comments from people who have kept this pet:

I am about to purchase a Goffin Cockatoo and I am very scared because of all the different things I keep reading. I have been wanting a Goffin for so long and have read up on them so much. When I read great stuff I get all excited and then I read bad and get nervous again. I think that he would get enough attention with our big family. I work from 6:30 am to 2:30pm and will be home the rest of the time as so will my husband, 4yr old daughter, and twin boys 13yrs. We also have a cat and a dog. I would do what ever I needed to make sure the baby is happy. Please if anyone can write me back and let me know what you think, PLEASE. Jennifer

Hi again, from Lenka and Dinosaurous. I think that I am so lucky because I seem to fall more in love with my little Dino everyday! He is such an angel and I can't imagine not having him. He plays all the time. He talks all the time. He sings and dances when he gets in the mood (to party). I keep looking into new toys for him to destroy and satisfy his urge to constantly chew. He seems to be very happy. Right now though, we are going through a stage where he likes to try and stick food into his wing feathers (unsuccessfully, hahah), though putting them through some damage! (They don't look their best now). Once in a while he manages to stick a (food) pellet in his baby feathers, though. I always find it when I snuggle him before sleep, and I laugh at him and tell him he's so funny. It's almost like he understands. Anyway, my love for him will never end, he is my real angel!

I used to have a Goffin Cockatoo named Tequila. He was a great pet and was really smart. He loved to sing and dance and was very affectionate. He would give me kisses all the time and would always answer when I talked to him. I think he knew a lot more words than he would actually say because once in a while when I was in the other room I would hear him say things that he's never said before. Unfortunately, he died about a year ago when he was only nine years old. I don't know what was wrong with him. His death was really sudden. I wasn't home at the time, but my dad said he just fell off of his perch. My dad picked him up when he fell off and Tequila died while my dad held him. He died really young but at least he had a peaceful death.

i think i have a goffin but some i know seems to think its a bare eyed corella. i have asked at a parrot breeders and he looked at him and said he believed it to be a goffin. i aquired peppy from my mum who couldn't get on with him. hes quite destructive to the wallpaper and is recently jealous of my grandaughter. he won't go to anyone except my husband but still hisses at him. he does come down if we are eating and waits for titbits but wont come directly to you. i have considered selling him due to the jealousy as it becomes quite trying.

Ritz, our goffins cockatoo is a little sweet pea. He's only loud at play time and when he wants a shower. He loves his showers. We can't imagine not having this little bundle of sunshine in our family. You need to have a lot of time with this kind of bird though. I am a stay at home Mom and let him stay out of cage most of the day. He only goes in his cage at bedtime and when I am not in the same room,otherwise you'll come back to chewed furniture. =O)

This is an update on my 4 year old Dinosaurous! He is still quite the character. Lately he got into a huge chewing mood and I am going through wood toys like crazy, but somehow I think that I have a compulsive obbsesive personality on my hands and this period will pass again much like his previous habits. Have had cage bail-outs, millet stage, plush toy stage, wing feather distraction stage, climbing on the curtains stage, and many more that I can't recall right now. I am embarrased to say, but his favorite toy is a new wrapped tampax! So, from time to time when I am taking a bath, I bring Dino in the bathroom and give him his very own tampon to destroy. He is sooo funny with it, because of its many layers and textures he loves to peel off the soft paper, then he loves the cardbord applicator, and when he gets to the string... he starts throwing it around on the mat. It's absolutely hilarious! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

I just recently got a cockatoo, the blue eyed kind. She is now 9months old. I also have a quaker, indian ring neck and two love birds. Angel my cockatoo is the sweetest bird, she had learned within days of having her how to say mommy, I love you, give kisses, and I am working on teaching her more words. She has a stand and a large cage. She is held by me, and my two 8 year old daughters. I do put her on her stand and her cage so she is not being held all day. I have learned that is bad for her and can harm her. In don't want her used to being held all day then putting her up and having her hurt herself out of depression. Angel has never bitten anyone in my family, she is so loving ans sweet, she has the funniest personality, she loves to dance and show off her feathers. She loves to go outside with me, I just got her a harness for extra protection. I just recently had to take her to the vet ER, she broke a major blood feather, so please on the young ones watch their blood feathers. they are still babies, clumsly and can die fast if their blood feather is broken. if you do not have the Styptic powder you can use flour until you can get your cockatoo to a vet. The best thing is to have the blood feather pulled, because there is a good chance they will continue to hurt it. I am so glad Angel picked me when I went to the pet store, I can't imagine my life without her and I find the cockatoo is one of the most beautiful, smart, outgoing and silliest birds out there. Just please make sure you have time for them before you buy them, they are cuddle bugs and do need extra love and attention. I am disabled and believe me the love you get in return is worth the extra time and effort, you have just found a best friend for life. Thanks, Libba

You could not ask for a more fun loving, busy little bird. I have had Chloe for 4 years now,( she was a rescue bird). And I would not trade her for the world! She is sweet, loving, happy go lucky, center of attention, spoiled lil brat. She cries for attention, but knows I will not give in to her every whim. She has tons of toys and plays with every one of them. Her favorate thing to do is string beads! She will string beads for hours, and I spend hours picking them all up and stringing them for her so she can start all over again, destring and string. She is a Blast.

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