Suggestions, tips, advice and articles on how to keep your pet
happy and healthy

This website is dedicated to helping you, the pet owner, provide the best possible home in which to care for your pets and keep them happy.  After all, they didn't choose your home, you chose them, and they deserve the best you can provide.  Not only is it the right thing for your pet, but ultimately a happy healthy pet is better for you too.

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Purchase a Baby African Grey Parrot - The most convenient place to purchase an African Grey parrot, be it a Timneh African Grey or a Congo African Grey, is from a bird breeder near you. The African Grey is the most popular talking parrot because of its clear pronunciation and tonality. It is an extremely intelligent and sociable parrot specie too. African Greys are also smaller than Cockatoos or Green Amazons, making them an ideal parrot to keep in house... (click here to continue)

Training Your African Grey Parrot - The African Grey parrot is a popular talking parrot among enthusiasts because of its intelligence and clear pronunciation. The Timneh African Grey and the Congo African Grey are sub-species that are very popular and much sought after by parrot keepers. As a proof of its intelligence, an African Grey parrot can store 2000 words in its vocabulary. It has the intelligence equal to a 5 year old child. This, in the world of birds, is considered extremely intelligent... (click here to continue)

Teaching Your Parrot to Talk -To have a talking bird, it is preferable that you purchase a young, hand raised bird between the ages of two and six months. Older birds will not learn as fast and wild or untrained birds will be more difficult to train as they have already got used to the sounds ingrained in their heads. If you can only purchase an adult bird, you will need a lot of patience to train it to talk as it will take a much longer time, but it is not impossible... (click here to continue)

7 Foods That Are Deadly To Your Parrots - When parrots were first keep as pets, people thought they only lived a short time. This was in part because most of the soft billed wild birds only live a few years but also because the parrots they kept die within 10 years or so. This was because the diet these parrots were being fed did not supply the necessary nutrients and the birds basically starved to death very, very slowly. Some succumbed to illness but this was in large part due to the fact that they were malnourished and their bodies couldn't fight the disease... (click here to continue)

 

Websites

The Pet Bird Page - This website will help you compare find and select the right bird for you, help you find a breeder and help you raise a happy and healthy parrot.

Exotic Pet Birds - A comprehensive site about exotic pet birds, providing all the information and resources you require for better caring of your loved exotic birds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  www.fluffies.org - It's All About Parrots!

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