Showering with your bird

[GreenWing]

Tiki loves to take showers with her flock.

Does anyone else bathe with their birds?

[Eurycerus]

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You should totally post a picture! Also how did you introduce the shower to her? I just bought a shower perch and would like to teach my little monster that it's fun and awesome to shower.

[GreenWing]

http://theparrotforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8723

You should totally post a picture! Also how did you introduce the shower to her? I just bought a shower perch and would like to teach my little monster that it's fun and awesome to shower.

LOL, I did... check out page 3!

I introduced the shower to Tiki by bringing her in the bathroom with me as I'd shower. I'd set her on her carrying cage, and she'd watch me.

Eventually she started to fly (er, flap, her wings are growing out now and currently she can fly short distances) towards the shower to be with me. She even climbed in herself, which was hilarious!

I hold her in the shower and she also hangs out at the bottom. She LOVES it. I set her back on her carrying cage before I bust out the soap. She'll preen herself there afterwards.

I think showering with your bird is the way to go; in the wild, Senegals and other parrots are used to the rain falling on their bodies to clean them. Just make sure your bird watches you do it a few times so they know it's safe, and that they seem comfortable before taking your bird in with you

[Eurycerus]

I'd set her on her carrying cage, and she'd watch me.

Oh awesome! When I first got her I would bring her and the travel cage in with me but I stopped doing that because she got too adventurous and I was worried. I'll just do a better parrot proofing and do it again. Sounds like she'll get the idea. ^_^

[cml]

Both Stitch and Leroy loves showering, and the funny thing is that they both sing opera in the shower ^^. We got them showering by just putting them on their shower perch and that was it , Stitch loved it from the first drop, Leroy we had to work with a little.

[AlbertaAviary]

I showered with my budgies for the first time a few days ago. Cocoa hated it so I let her out. She wanted to come back in when she realized Yoshi wasn't out with her. Cocoa perched on a soap container out of the water.

Yoshi loved it. He closed his eyes and raised his head. I held him under the water so it could run on his back. He loved it. He even got a nice back massage from me.

So yes, from now on if I shower before their bedtime (they get sleep around 8:30) I will shower with them.

[marie83]

Ollie sometimes comes in with me before I get the soap out. I wait til he is done then kick him out so its completely safe. Generally he bathes in a tray though as I get worried about the shower. He will stand under the stream like a human does rather than using the spray to get wet.

[Grey_Moon]

Yup,

Jacko bathes with me everyday.
I live with some not-so-parrot-savvy people and certainly not animal people like I am, so it caused quite a stir for a bit. For me though its just status quo.

[alexandrine]

Tiki loves to take showers with her flock.

Does anyone else bathe with their birds?

i do the same with my sun conure and alexandrine , they spread their wings and close their eyes under the warm water , i think they love it