). Birds are popular and don't have fur, but they can produce lots of feather dust, so probably not the best choice if you are allergic?
) These are all possible ideas but as with anything, I have to research and consider and then, there are THE PARENTS! TO get through
Sadly almost every pet has to be locked up, but I think many birds suffer less from it than for example tortoises. Of course they shouldn't live in a small cage, but if you let them fly free in a room... Big parrots would need more space, but my budgies are pleased with that.
They do stink though - at least the ones a colleague had in school did!
I had a pet sparrow for 7 years. It was one of 3 I reared when their nest was knocked down in work. They were less than a day old and brought to me because I had an incubator on the go for hatching chicks. 2 were strong and were released in my garden so they were around quite a lot until they flew further away (at least that's what I like to think happened to them), but the runt stayed with me and miraculously survived! It had an open cage so plenty of room to fly around indoors. It didn't know it was a bird though and when I returned home from work it would come and nestle in the crook of my arm or sit on my shoulder under my hair.
Tom. How do you train your birds to fly around the room. We have 2 budgies, we leave the cage open and they are just not bothered about coming out. I got them out once, they flew around the room in a panic, landed back on the cage and went straight back inside. How do I go about training them to come out? Also I didn't realise how much they love to eat greens, we give them a piece of romaine from time to time. The other week I moved one of my large indoor palm trees too close to their cage, they ate every bit that was within reach.
I used to leave some food on top of my sparrow's cage as well as in it, so he would often just sit on the top.
We have tried that, we even put millet around the room for them to get, but no.
That's why I wouldn't put any animal into a (customary) cage.
).Do you have enough landing places outside? Put something close to the cage and connect it to the door (for example with a rope), so they don't have to fly, but can start to explore the room slowly step by step. You can also move the food bowl a little closer to the door every day until it's outside, so they HAVE to come out.
Do you have any red furnishings around the room?
There is places to land, but I will try the rope trick. We've only had one of them for about 6wks.That's why I wouldn't put any animal into a (customary) cage.
But especially birds can be kept in an open cage without problems, they don't have to be supervised. I don't even know anyone who's ever kept a bird locked in a cage, that seems to be unusual here (since they can see my budgies at the window, everyone tends to tell me their budgiestories
Do you have enough landing places outside? Put something close to the cage and connect it to the door (for example with a rope), so they don't have to fly, but can start to explore the room slowly step by step. You can also move the food bowl a little closer to the door every day until it's outside, so they HAVE to come out.
Nothing red, except torts. Lol.
