Friday, October 9, 2009

Posted by Parrot Enthusiast on/at 11:51 PM

For most birds who STILL have a screaming habit, BOREDOM is the main reason your bird screams. And to cure a BORED bird from screaming without trying to find a strategy that focuses on eliminating boredom is like searching for a lost ball in some VERY tall weeds...

A parrot's natural pattern of activity in the wild eliminates boredom by requiring it to search for food for up to 6-8 hours a day.

So just like you don't feel the need to be active after you've been running errands for 8 hours strait, and just want to sit on the couch and relax...

You can manufacture environments in your parrot's life that keep him so busy he'll want to spend more time relaxing too.

But to do this you need to force your parrot to actually search for his food ALL day long, and STOP making it so easy for him to get at in his food bowl.

By using types of toys that you can find online that I call "Food Finding Toys", or that are coined in the industry as "Foraging toys"...

You can set up an environment in your bird's cage that *requires* him to actively search, dig and pry for his daily food for almost the entire day. They will literally be active for as many as 6 hours a day looking for food.

And you can imagine how much less demanding a bird who's been that busy all day will be for your time and attention! The change you'll see in your bird's behavior when you make him look for ALL his food is remarkable.

In fact the evidence supporting how much this benefits your bird makes NOT doing this, border line abusive (in my opinion).

A mind is a precious thing, and a mind left to an un-enriching environment will erode... maybe even become neurotic.

It takes a little more effort on your parrot to hide your birds food, but it's worth it.

So go pick up some Food Finding Toys today and start manufacturing an exciting environment for your bird today.

Note: When choosing toys, be sure to choose those that doesn't have dies or toxic ingredients.
The following site has the safest line of toys on the market, and many of their toys have lots of space to hide food in that force a parrot to have to chew through a Coconut shell to get his pellets, or shred up multiple layers of paper to get a treat inside.

You can see the range of toys and the dangers of commercial parrot toys here:

http://www.birdtricks.com/parrot-toys/

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