Are Remote Controls Poisonous to Birds ?
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Are Remote Controls Poisonous to Birds ?

If you have a small bird like a cockatiel, all you have to do is flip your remotes over and they can’t get to the buttons.
For larger birds, you need to get them out of the bird site. We all get a lot of chuckles telling stories about how I birds nibbled on the remote buttons. Generally speaking, they like the buttons because they see you play with the buttons so they want to play with “your” toys.

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Have a Bird? Will You Accept My Challenge?
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Have a Bird? Will You Accept My Challenge?

Windy City Parrot use to be located in the geographical center of the City of Chicago in the neighborhood known as Ukrainian Village (about 3 miles from downtown Chicago). Catherine and I live about 2000 feet from the Birdie Boutique so one of us walks to work every day (usually her).

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 Because I am the late riser I’m the one who usually takes Popcorn to work in a backpack bird carrier, quite handy for walking with a bird. Dogs are an integral part of families and it’s apparent in our neighborhood. Also apparent is the lack of training many dogs have. 

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Need Cage Cleaning Help? Read this
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Need Cage Cleaning Help? Read this

What’s the single most asked question at Windy City Parrot? “Why is my bird so messy”? It’s not that “your” bird is messy.
Birds are messy by natural design. For us old folks, the talk you had with your folks was called the “birds and the bees” talk for a reason.
Bees spread pollen by going from flower to flower, thus we have more flowers.

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