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Should We Anesthetize Birds for Exams and Blunt Their Beaks?

Mitch Rezman
December 2, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Biting Birds / Habitats for caged birds / Keto the African ringneck / Pionus parrot / Veterinarian Related
8 Comments

The following comment is in reference to a blog post entitled “How To Stop An Indian Ringneck Parrot From Biting“

Russ commented:

FIRST OFF, Blunt Keto’s beak at the vet.

My vet is Scott McDonald, who puts all birds under gas for examination & grooming (STRESS FREEEEE).

His clinics are several per month in his Clarendon Hills home.

The best of the best.

SECOND: as with my 15y.o. Pionus, teach Ketto the difference between GOOD & BAD (or NO GOOD), by saying REPEATEDLY OVER & OVER AGAIN & AGAIN “Good Boy!”

Every single time Keto does something good.

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Can I Grab My Parakeets While In Their Cage

Mitch Rezman
November 27, 2018
Bathing and Health / Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Biting Birds / Budgies / Habitats for caged birds / Veterinarian Related
1 Comment

First of all, people who state absolute truths about bird care as in yes and no have much to learn.

To answer this question with an emphatic “no”, begs even more queries:

It’s time to take the bird to the vet, how do I get it from cage to carrier?
The bird is sick or injured in the cage, now what?
How do I get the bird to examine it?
What if I need to weigh the bird?

If you just want to let the bird out by opening the cage door have you examined your home?

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How Do We Know Parrots Enjoy Anything?

Mitch Rezman
November 16, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Enviornments / Foraging and Enrichment / Habitats for caged birds
0 Comments

Another question recently asked on Quora was “what do parrots do for fun”?

We know parrots prefer “working” for food versus simply eating from overflowing bowls of bird food blends.

We know correlation does not necessarily imply causation but can we correctly infer that work & play are one and the same for a parrot?

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How Can I Tame Two Adult Budgies at Once?

Mitch Rezman
November 16, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Budgies / Habitats for caged birds / Parakeets
0 Comments

How can I tame two adult budgies at once?

I would rather not buy two bird cages.

mitchr explains:

It’s been recently discovered that the first parrot breeders in North America existed almost 1000 years ago.

Birds on the other hand existed freely around the planet for about 99 million years prior to humans containment of them.

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Is This a Proper Budgie Cage Set Up?

Mitch Rezman
November 1, 2018
Bird & Parrot Anatomy / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Lighting / Bird Rescue / Birds & Lighting / Budgies / Habitats for caged birds / Parakeets
0 Comments

Is this a proper budgie cage set up?

First of all you do not indicate the bird’s lifestyle.

Will this be a solitary bird who spends a lot of time in the cage or will the bird be out of the cage a lot and basically used for sleeping?

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What Should You Consider Before Getting a Pet Bird?

Mitch Rezman
September 5, 2018
Bird & Parrot Care / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Exercising birds / Feeding Pet Birds / Foraging and Enrichment / Habitats for caged birds / Parakeets / Peaches the Senegal Parrot / Training Birds
0 Comments

Children are loud, messy, and time-consuming, but every family has 2.6 of them (Pew Research).

I probably spend less time cleaning up after my eight birds in three birdcages than most moms cleaning up after 2 six-year-olds

or a single toddler

To say that all birds are time-consuming is an unsupported blanket statement.

We have a Senegal parrot and an African ringneck.

Neither is very noisy.

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What Are the Absolute Worst Types of Parrots for a First-time Bird Owner?

Mitch Rezman
August 25, 2018
African grey / Amazons / Bird Behavior / Bird Cage Info / Bird Enviornments / Bird Rescue / Biting Birds / Budgies / Caique / Cockatiels / Cockatoo / Conures / Eclectus parrots / Feeding Pet Birds / Finches / Habitats for caged birds / Hormonal issues in birds / Indian Ringneck / Large macaws / Lovebirds / Parrotlet / Pigeons / Quaker parrot / Senegal parrots
2 Comments

Once again, although well-intentioned, people are breaking down your choices into the macro of species (Quora question).

One answer started with

Cockatoos
Macaws
Amazons

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I Took In A Rescue Sun Conure That’s Biting Me – Help!

Mitch Rezman
June 15, 2018
Bird Rescue / Birds & Lighting / Conures / Habitats for caged birds
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Mimi H writes,

A patient of mine highly recommended you. I’ve watched some of the biting videos but you see I took in a rescue sun conure. We believe it’s male. It humps everything right now.

His wings are not clipped mind you and I’m not against doing it if it will help.

My issue is not only is he hand shy but also a biter really bad.

We believe he is 4-5yo.

Where should I start and how?

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