by Pajarita » Mon Feb 19, 2018 10:51 am
Welcome to the forum! I don't know what to tell you... Personally, I never take my birds out of my house unless they have to go to the vet and, on the infrequent occasions when I am not going to be home, either my husband stays behind or I get somebody to come over because I feel that the birds are much less stressed out when they remain in their familiar cages AND environment. Parrots are not 'explorers', they are born, live their entire lives and die in the same and rather small territory so, as for a captive bird, its territory is its home and I always try to make their lives as close to what nature evolved them to have, I choose to keep them at home. BUT, if you can't find anybody to come over, I would say to bring their own cages to your friend's house because, it's going to be hard enough for them to be under the care of a stranger and in a strange house without not having their own cage...
Isn't there a way that you can, say, transport their cages to your friend's house one evening when it's already dark, set them up and move the birds the following morning and make them sleep that night in the carrier you use to take them to their vet? Because they won't mind sleeping in their own home, with you, under the same routine/schedule they always do in a smaller but familiar enclosure as much as they would if they had to live for an entire week in completely strange circumstances and in a strange housing.