How To Raise A Pet Parrot

If you have ever had a child where you were responsible for the upbringing of this young person, you will know some of the responsibilities that you will need when you begin to raise a parrot.  Parrots are very similar to children.  The younger that you get them, the more trust you can build.  If you begin raising their parrot at a later age, building that trust will take more time but is very easy to do if you follow a plan.  Here are a few tips to use for raising a pet parrot.

The first thing to consider is that your parrot will need a great deal of attention early on.  Buying it a fancy cage and providing it with the most nutritious foods is nice, but the other half of the equation is spending time with your parrot and developing a relationship with it.

So many times, pet owners of any kind of animal, will purchase the animal with the intent of building a solid relationship.  But as time passes, jobs, daily life, and emergencies seem to get in the way of taking just a few minutes a day to bond with their new animal.  Parrots demand a great deal of attention.  If you are unable to provide your parrot with daily attention and instruction, this is probably not the animal for you.

Gaining the respect of your parrot is actually a very easy process.  It has to do with being consistent and providing it with enough freedom and attention early on in its life.  The first step is obviously speaking with your parrot.  Allow it to get used to your hand near the cage.  Later on, you should be able to place your hand in the cage and begin to teach it to take steps up on the perch to further build your bond.

One of the most important things to do when raising your parrot is to make sure that you are talking to it.  Whether or not you are focused upon teaching your parrot to talk or not, speaking with your parrot is a major contributor to building trust.  Speaking to your parrot is used when talking to it in general, instructing it on behavioral problems such as biting, or praising it when it does something well like taking its first step onto a perch on command.

The bottom line is that your parrot’s behavior, and its relationship with you, begins with you taking the time to bond with your parrot.  There are some parrots that are genetically born with a predisposition to screaming, biting, and being nonsocial altogether.  If this is the case, the parrot that you have purchased is probably not going to respond to any of your efforts, despite your greatest intentions.  At this point, you might want to take your parrot into a veterinarian just make sure it is not sick.  However, if it is not, more than likely your parrot simply is not designed to be a human companion.

The best tip is to make sure that your parrot comes from a hand feeder.  Parrots that are hand fed early on our typically the most calm.  The person you are purchasing the parrot from can tell you more about your parrot before you make a decision to take this parrot home with you.  Doing so will make your life easier, and more than likely make your decision a sound one before embarking on any relationship building.

Finally, you will always have times when you will be away from your parrot.  Make sure that your parrot is in a room that has high activity or place it in a room that has a television set so that it has some format of company during the times when you’re gone.  You have to remember that the parrot is in the cage, alone, and probably does not understand why you were gone.  By making sure that your parrot is comfortable and feels safe, your relationship building will blossom and your efforts to raise your pet parrot will inevitably succeed.