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Is your parrot a bather (or majority if multiple)

Yes
38
75%
No
13
25%
 
Total votes : 51

Re: Is your parrot a bather?

Postby snakesentwined » Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:18 pm

Like MandyG, Isis (Yellow crowned Amazon) doesn't bathe, but she loves to be sprayed or showered - and would happily spend all day sopping wet if she could. But then I think 'Amazon = rainforest = daily soakings' so it's not that surprising ;)

We used to take her in the shower with a hand-held perch, but we have since bought one of the shower perches and she prefers to use that instead now (it was expensive, but it's a window perch too, so we're getting lots of use from it!).

I don't really have any problems with being un-clothed in front of Isis: I don't think our nekedness could have any degenerative moral effect on our parrots, since I really don't imagine that birds have any idea of 'modesty'!

I regularly dress in front of Isis, and consider it a useful form of socialisation, since it encourages her to recognise me as 'me', regardless of what I am wearing (although she did cock a curious eye up and down the first time I was naked - and made her favourite 'ta da da dah!!!' call - although not her wolf-whistle, thank goodness ;) )

But then, I'm comfortable in my skin and don't really have a problem being naked in front of our cats either - or our snakes, my partner, chiropractor, tattooist... I'm a pagan, and so view flesh as our natural state - and beautiful no matter what bulges and wrinkles it may include :D
"every man and woman is a star, governing their own orbit"

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Re: Is your parrot a bather?

Postby rones » Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:55 am

we ve got a small incage bathtub and my budgie liakos seems to enjoy it!!! :D
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