We heard about Sweet Pea while we were still on vacation, in late November. Her owners had been tragically killed in a car crash on Thanksgiving Day. The woman had bought Sweet Pea as a baby Macaw from a breeder in central Ky. 25 years ago. When I spoke with the adult daughter of Sweet Pea's owners, naturally I asked lots of questions. I found out that Sweet Pea's owner, we'll call her Debbie, had bottle-fed Sweet Pea as a baby macaw. -Just an interesting tidbit. Sweet Pea has chronically plucked her feathers for 20 + years. Sweet Pea's first 'portrait' in our home, 4-5 days after her arrival When we found this out from Debbie's adult daughter, we were nervous. -Could we take this on? Yes, I do love birds, but the rescue has never had an exotic, large bird, and much-less one with a neurotic-plucking disorder. I ...