I hate to encourage this, but my nephew fell in love with a little chick last Fall he named "Tweet", and my sister did get bird diapers from the pet store so he could keep the baby inside and play with it. He pushed that little bird around in the back of a large plastic dump truck and chattered away at it for two months- the novelty never wore off for him...but it did eventually wear off for my sister, who sent the SUPER tame bird back to my house