Sometimes, especially around the holidays or at your favorite aunty’s house, it’s easy to overeat. No matter how full we are, we always have room left for one tiny slice of chocolate cake. Then we eat the cake and have a stomach ache for the rest of the evening. Sound familiar? Sometimes I watch my … Read more
Losing a pet can be a tragic and painful experience, and we grieve them just like we grieve the loss of our human family members. Parakeets are loved for their human-like quality of speech, but how far do the similarities go? Do parakeets grieve? The answer is yes, parakeets do grieve. They are social creatures … Read more
The other day a ladybug landed in my parrot’s food bowl, and before I could get it to go away, my parrot ate it. So then I needed to figure out, are ladybugs poisonous to parrots? If your parrot ingests one or even two ladybugs, they should be fine; you just need to monitor them. … Read more
If you have ever watched a parrot eat, you may have noticed that they munch down on some lovely crunch things. Like, crunchy. Some of the seeds and grains that they eat could easily chip a human’s tooth. If we ate something like that, it would have to be well-ground. If not by machines, then … Read more
I got up the other morning and went down to feed my lovebirds, as I could hear one of them chirping away louder and earlier than usual. When I got to the cage, I was pretty surprised to find that one of my female pair had laid some eggs. I didn’t even know it was … Read more
It’s inevitable, isn’t it? All mammals have to do “it” at some point. The problem is, that most pets somehow manage to find the most inconvenient and inappropriate times to go about their “business”… I had a suspicion however, that maybe there was a glimmer of hope. Maybe out feathery friends were more intelligent than … Read more