How To: Keep Your Parrot Happy While Your Gone

Hello bird lovers!
Most parrot owners have jobs and have to leave their parrot home alone all day, this can easily become very boring and monotonous for a parrot. Parrots love involvement, anything that is engaging or interesting (even if it's watching you brush your teeth) they love to observe and most importantly they love to be a part of what's going on. But your job is to somehow provide this without being there; I am going to suggest a few tips of my own that I have proven to work great. First of all buy a variety of toys, but don't barrage a parrots cage with toys, put a few in the parrots cage (depending on the size of the cage) and before the parrot gets tired of them rotate in some new ones and eject the old ones, you don’t need a huge variety of toys, just enough to have enough to keep it interesting. But be sure you position the toy so the parrot can easily reach it, a toy out of reach to a parrot is to you like an itch you can't scratch! Leaving the TV or Radio is a more common way to provide activity, if you resort to TV or Radio make sure it is something engaging like animal planet, discovery, or for radio, the ball game. Make sure the volume isn't to loud though or the bird could be startled by a peaceful program to a roaring commercial. Not all parrots take to this strategy though. Do not give the parrot a monotonous diet! Parrot's enjoy all kinds of food, feeding it just one diet is very very bad for the parrots morale, your parrot will be much happier with a wide variety of food. Stay away from junk food and caffeine though. If there is one piece of information I want you to walk away with tonight it is this, if you provide your parrot with something to be interested in he will be a happy bird. And you can be creative to; as long as it’s safe don't limit yourself. If you have any methods you have discovered that you would like to share, then please feel free to post a comment.

That's all I have for now, good luck and until next time,
Adam
The Parrot Tamer.