Parrot Behavior: Messiness - Family - Pets

It's important to know what you're getting into before you bring a parrot home. Parrots are smart creatures and can make fantastic pets but are not low maintenance! In this article learn a little about the parrot behavior of chewing and messiness.

Most Parrots are cavity breeders. They build their nest by hollowing out cavities in trees with their beaks. Chewing is a normal behavior that needs to be accommodated by providing your parrot lots of parrot safe things to chew. Don't expect your parrot to be able to tell the difference between your wood furniture and his toys. He won't!! This chewing though quite natural will produce mess!

Parrots are messy. They throw their food around, do a lot of pooping and love to shred things, Their cages need to have the paper changed daily and their food and water needs to be changed at least daily. Parrots also shed dander and feathers which can add to the mess and probably makes them inappropriate for those with allergies.

If mess is an issue for you a parrot may not be the pet you want.

If you've decided a parrots for you be prepared to deal with messiness. Buying a cage with seed catchers on the side may help. You can also buy net seed catchers for the bottom of a cage that doesn't have them built on the sides

You can place plastic under your parrot's cage. The plastic can then be simply picked up every couple of days and thrown away. You may want to place plastic on the walls your parrot's cage is sitting next to for wall protection against food throwing.

You must always supervise your parrot when he's out of his cage. If you fail to do this and come home to find grandmas antique table turned into splinters, don't blame your parrot.

You may want to buy newsprint from a packing company to use as cage lining material. This can be useful if you don't take a daily newspaper. Finally be sure to provide plenty of parrot safe toys for your parrot to shred and chew. Parrots are wild creatures and living in a cage is an unnatural state for them. As responsible owners we have to provide fro their needs and one of those needs is chewing.

Remember messiness isn't a behavior problem when it comes to parrots, it's just their nature. Parrots are naturally messy creatures. These behaviors are only a problem because your parrots in a living room and not a tree.

Understanding many of the behaviors you may find difficult to deal with are instinctual is the first step to a rewarding relationship with your new parrot. Insight into your parrots' behavior will go far in making your experience pleasant.

iAutoblog the premier autoblogger software