Lifestyle

Not all dogs run fences because of fear, or aggression. Angus Lee runs his fence to get the attention of the human on the other side.

We give companion parrots many materials not native, natural, or occurring to their wild cousins. Parrot folk shop with maximum effort. So, a list of safe woods is helpful for the humans spending the money to keep their parrot busy, happy, and healthy. Let's stick with what is safe. Let's keep parrot lists simple. Safe trees for parrots (listed in alphabetical order).

Parrot proofing a home is tricky business. Flying beings are tricky business. We don’t fly, so we can’t think like a flyer. If you don’t have the superpower of flight, you can’t know what it’s like to use it. Take that fantastical superpower, put it in a brain filled with densely packed neurons ready to fire, and release them in a house. 

Your life will change when you bring home a parrot. Some of those changes may give you pause. You can’t successfully live with a fully mobile, choice driven toddler using divided attention. You can’t build a good relationship either. Your life will change if you’re doing right by your parrot. Do or do not. There is no try. Parrots know this already.

Like a human, every parrot is an individual. Each relationship and flock have their own abiding truth for themselves. There are a few absolutes that must exist in all. Empathy is first.

The magic superpower of routines is they are adjustable gears that fine-tune our lifestyle for even more success. Do yourself, your family, your companion animals, and your dreams a favor. Define your needs to create the actions that become routine. Because routines are the way to success in your parrot lifestyle.

Relationships require time. Great relationships require unconditional time investment with reasonable expectations. Like a bonsai tree, live in the moment while working for the future. You can’t shortchange the process. This journey with a parrot, large or small, is best enjoyed in the now. 

Parrot expectations are meant for their world, not ours. That’s the nugget at the center of the truth of expectations for both parrot and human. We’ve invited a flying being to live in a non-flying lifestyle. It is the parrot’s expectations that get pushed aside when human life presses in.

Forget behavior modification for your parrots and consider that for yourself first. I do. The best part of creating a great parrot life is the side effects. How to Create a Great Parrot Lifestyle - Nothing Less Than Our Sincerity.

We’re going to inventory our money, our choices, and our friends. This is where we find our true self. We rationalize ourselves into thinking differently about what we are doing. Explaining away our tendencies in excuse format as to why we aren’t who we think we should be. All along, we’re being who we really are every day. Actions speak louder than words.

If you are considering adding a new companion to your current flock, this type of lifestyle review is important. Do not romanticize what “it would be like” because it never is. It will be what it is and what you are right now, but with a parrot.

Birds, exotic and local, bath for enjoyment as well as hygiene. They splash, and spread water over their heads, down their backs and over and through their wings in a prescribed way through instinct. Birds bathe.  It's familiar right down to their DNA. It's up to us to introduce and prove our bathing ideas are good.