How to Understand Parrot Behavior: Chewing and Messiness
Parrots are intelligent animals and can make wonderful companions.
It’s important, however, to know what you’re getting into before you bring a parrot home. Parrots are not low maintenance pets. In this article learn a little about the parrot behavior of chewing and messiness.
Understand 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. Parrots are naturally messy creatures. These behaviors are only a problem because your parrots in a living room and not a tree. Other behaviors you may encounter, only happen in captivity, such as self-plucking. Understanding your parrots behavior will go far in making your experience a positive one.
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!! Supervise your parrot when he’s out of his cage.
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 you want.
If you’ve decided a parrots for you be prepared to deal with messiness. Some of the following tips may help:
1) Buying a cage with seed catchers on the side. You can also buy net seed catchers for the bottom of a cage that doesn’t have them built on the sides
2) Placing plastic under your parrot’s cage. The plastic can then be simply picked up every couple of days and thrown away.
3) Buying a small hand vacuum so you don’t need to pull out your big vacuum for daily clean up.
4) Placing plastic on the walls your parrot’s cage is sitting next to for wall protection.
5) Supervise your parrot when he’s out of his cage.
6) Buy newsprint from a packing company to use as cage lining material. This can be useful if you don’t take a daily newspaper.
7) Providing plenty of parrot safe toys for your parrot to shred and chew.
Remember messiness isn’t a behavior problem when it comes to parrots, it’s just their nature.
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