Bother The Birds

Here are a few simple things that you can do to enrich your parrot’s life and learn more about them.

1. Set your timer for 10 minutes. Give your bird your undivided attention for that time. Give scratches, go for a walk in the house, toss a ball, dance, sit quietly. What ever your bird likes to do.
2. Eat a healthy snack and share with your bird. For Example: Blueberries, carrots, apple, pear etc.
3. Make a quick toy. Be creative but safe! Offer up a wooden tongue depressor- hold it and talk to them while they destroy it. Cut up pieces of cardboard and weave through cage bars for them to chew on.
4. Sit close to the cage and read them a children’s book. Show them the pictures!
5. Listen to the radio together or leave it on when you are not there.
6. Teach them to forage. Put a loose paper over the food dish, wrap a nut in paper towel and let them work to get the nut. It might take a little time to teach. Let the birds see you set up the foraging goody. If they don’t get it peel away the paper the first few times!
7. When you change the paper in the cage put an extra layer for playing or chewing on. Rotate the toys to different spots in the cage.
8. Having a salad with dinner? Take out some for the birds before you put the dressing on.
9. Talk to them.
10. If you can’t take them out of the cage give them scratches through the bars. It is better than nothing!

These are some things that I do for my birds. Post a comment and tell me what you and your parrots do!

Your Birdie Friend,

Christa