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The Coconut Oil Video Guide for Birds, Beards & Beings
It's rare to find a product that benefits multiple species but Coconut oil is one of them. Are all coconut oils the same? No. the coconut oil we sell Coco Loro…
Christmas Morning Foraging Ideas for Your Parrots and a Great Foraging Toy From a Dog.
It’s the holidays – I get it. You are busy. Things to do – places to go – people to see.
Your solution? Lock up the bird with lots of fresh food and water and put the cartoon channel on TV for him or her to watch until January 2nd.
Learned Helplessness: A Big Parrot Taming and Training Mistake You Don’t Want to Make
In a recent post, I mentioned learned helplessness and promised you a detailed explanation of what it means, its impacts, and how it happens so that you can avoid making…
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Why You Don’t Need a Professional to Trim Your Birds Nails
There are a lot of tough guy actors. Mickey Rourke is like a train wreck you want to look away but you just can’t.
fyi he was nominated for an Oscar , Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role The Wrestler (2008) – he’s also an animal lover
When Rourke won the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in The Wrestler, he famously gave a special shout-out to “all my dogs” in his acceptance speech: “The ones that are here, that aren’t here anymore, because sometimes when a man’s alone, that’s all you got is your dog. And they meant the world to me.”
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A Coral Billed Pionus that Thinks He’s a Turkey
Windy City Parrot was on Western Avenue and as I’ve mentioned in the past, this is the longest continuous street in the world.
During the course of any given day, thousands of vehicles passed by us on this four-lane arterial corridor. Hundreds of pedestrians walk by to and from busy bus routes and stores that can be reached on foot – take that suburbia.
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Birds, Gout, Arthritic Feet and Winter Respiratory Issues
Cooler days and colder nights ~ Forewarned is forearmed
Ready to have the whole fam damily sit in front of the fireplace for the first time this year and watch a movie on Netflix?
It would only be right to have your precious little bundle of feathers in the room to enjoy the family bonding time too. (more…)
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Finches Small, Enchanting Birds that are Easy to Keep and Care For
Put a cage full of finches in a room if you want to breathe life into it. In reality, the term "Finch" kinda-sorta describes hundreds of "passerines." You can tell…
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Why has some of my favorite bird food and care products gone missing?
First little housekeeping. Popcorn's off her eggs! Follow her adventures on Twitter This weekend marks daylight savings time where we set our clocks back one hour. My former brother-in-law who…
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Zygodactyl Footnotes from October 2015
Hello Windy City Parrot
I am visiting friends in Puerto Rico and they have a 2-year-old Moluccan Cockatoo. He is very needy.. loves to be petted and is a little neurotic.
The past few months he has been pulling the feathers out to bloody skin and pecking at it around his neck to the point where the Vet put a collar on him to stop more damage. he still tries. he eats well. (more…)