Fixing the My Bird Hates Pellets but I Love Pellets – Enigma
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Fixing the My Bird Hates Pellets but I Love Pellets – Enigma

Some of you realize – many of you don’t. The majority of social media posts you read were programmed days or weeks before for “future distribution”. This means whoever is pushing the erudition out won’t be around when you’re reading their content to actually engage you in a discussion about this new important “message” from the person or brand you are following.

Water from a fire hose is fine for putting out fires, but you can’t drink water from a fire hose and you can’t water plants with a fire hose. Getting information from social media is like getting information from a fire hose.

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I Love My Bird – I Hate the Mess – A Helping Guide to Bird Mess Containment
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I Love My Bird – I Hate the Mess – A Helping Guide to Bird Mess Containment

Every parrot owner deals with the issue of messiness with seeds or pellets that get tossed out of the cage or water splashes wetting the cage liners.

No parrot parent likes to have just changed the cage liner, swept or vacuumed debris from around the cage, and provided clean water dishes only to realize that their bird has just decided to soak the entire cage floor and the food by trying to bathe in their water dish or has decided to toss out part of their food in a wide sweep that sprinkles on the newly-cleaned floor, has just taken a poop in their water dish or had poop fall into the newly-served food.

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Why Humans Don’t Use Steel Bars to Wipe Their Mouth
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Why Humans Don’t Use Steel Bars to Wipe Their Mouth

and Parrots Don’t Use Napkins on Their Beaks – Does your parrot need a napkin? Why is he wiping his beak on his perch or cage bars?

Have you noticed that sometimes your parrot wipes his beak on his perch or cage bars? Do you wonder why this behavior happens and what it means? There are two reasons a healthy parrot does this behavior, so let’s look at each reason.

why do humans use napkins, not steel bars?

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Why You Don’t Need a Professional to Trim Your Birds Nails
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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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My Bird/Your Bird – Break Up Decisions and Creating the Blended Family With Parrots
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My Bird/Your Bird – Break Up Decisions and Creating the Blended Family With Parrots

I started making my way across the earth in the middle of the last century.

I traveled terrestrially and airborne as my father Norman was a vagabond pilot – sure, I’d love to have a coffee and chat about that sometime. 

If you are a baby boomer you may remember probably what was one of the first chain stores – Woolworths 

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A Coral Billed Pionus that Thinks He’s a Turkey
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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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Ten Things to Consider Before Getting a First Bird
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Ten Things to Consider Before Getting a First Bird

or adding another parrot to your life

Taking care of a parrot is a lot of responsibility. Most of you already know this but a few may not.

Your friends that don’t own parrots probably look at yours and think they want one too, so please pass these points along to them so they can make a wise decision.

Whether you are buying your first parrot or your 10th, you need to think these things through as well.

Sharing life with a parrot is very much like living with a poorly mannered undisciplined 3 year old who will not grow up and go away to college.

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