For all of people who own parrot, the official and season holiday, although is a happiness and delight time, is an essential and vital problem. Meaning that it is with amount of stress, something like that schedule changes, variation in home temperatures, changing weather conditions, heightened activities in the home, and increased noise make disturbance for parrot. There is no doubt some activities may disrupt the parrot’s behaviour during the holidays. These are:
- Great changes in holiday: Traveling basically is regarded as a warning and a kind of danger. It is important for me to adopt myself to environment gradually. Food, lights, odors, decorations and trees and everything around me are big changes. Distinctive sights, sounds, and smells in holidays are the great indicator, even if I never go out my cage. Furthermore, all of mentioned above can be fundamentally dangerous to parrot. You have to reduce the elements of sensitivity during the holiday.
- The dark space: Almost 10-12 hours per day is required for enough rest at darkness. If you increase your activities in your family during the holiday up to 18 hours a day inside you home, this will cause a disruption your parrot’s sleep timetable. Do not change my regular schedule, even if it is to cover my cage and take it to a secure place where I have to get the suitable sleep It require.
- People in all places: The more coming and going of members of families and guests is, the more threatening is. I will respond their voices and body language, and may be emotionally profit with when came nearer. At first, it’s good to introduce me to the guests gradually for safe keeping and handle our communication for interaction safety.
- When the dinner time is? It’s natural you are so busy that preparing for traveling. The limited time will oblige you spending less time with me. You are keeping yourself busy with shopping, cooking, entertaining, decorating, but it’s essential to manage a playtime, feeding, and everyday exercise as much as possible. If not so, I might feel disregarded or even may encounter some anguish and tension and being apart.
Signs of Holiday stress in parrot
If you want to know what the signs of stress in me are, there are some types of symptoms, they are:
- Biting
- Screaming
- Feather picking
- Eating less, or not all
- Changes in the character
- Quantity of dropping
Holiday stress reducers
When I have holiday stress, it is necessary to reduce my stress level. Here are some hints that you can follow them:
- Keep feeding and hygiene ordinaries. A causal food should be given. Don’t forget during the holiday you don’t have to create great changes in my diet.
- Deliver my toys and interplay activities to pass the time, if you in particular observe any signs of feather plucking or behaviour problems.
- Providing a suitable cage cover for reducing the stress during the holidays is strongly important instrument. You can put it in exposure to light, keep away me from the guests and other pets, if you observed the signs of stress in me, please take a break to me.
- Restrict the strangers, meaning that you should replace my cage. It’s true that may be a simple change for parrot, but the fact is that you are keeping away me from stress.
- Prepare the necessary equipment for occurring an accident. Be sure you have some veterinarian contact information and you can find it easily. Try to preserve your peace. Your parrot is intelligent and can feel your emotions.
- Whatever you extremely respond, your parrot will react too.
- Pay more attention to keep parrot safe, healthy, and happy during the holiday season.
If you use just a few these hints will make sure your feathered friend is as hoppy that your place as it is for you.
Evaluate some hints to take care of your parrot keeping him safe and happy this holiday season:
Decorations
Some events astonishingly raise in a holiday period. Examine your home how to use these items:
- Electrical Wires: decoration and light on holiday usually accompany with additional ropes and wires. They must be hidden or try to use pet-proof cover to don’t become chew like toys. Because they may be chewed, so makes burn and you have to prevent any incidents of electrocution for parrot.
- Holiday plants: using poinsettia, holly, mistletoe, Christmas cactus, and some other plants for decoration in the house during the holiday season are often poisonous and harmful to your parrot. Either don’t use them absolutely, or never permit the parrot to approach them suddenly.
- Holiday Aromas: Attractiveness and beauty in the holiday season is the scene and the smells. But you must regard some holiday aromas are harmful to the parrot, watch out perfumed candles, potpourri, adhesives, spray glues, aerosol sprays, cleaning products, and Teflon can be toxic.
- Open Flames: when you use any kinds of the heating systems or flame or high heat in your home, you have to keep away your parrot from them. Candles, space heaters, hot stove or oven pots of boiling liquids and fireplaces are serious problems for parrot’s health. Don’t let him be free in the home, and put him in the cage.
- Ceiling Fans: Although we have to turn on a ceiling fans during the hot day or night to present some air relief, it can be a threat to the feathered friends. Ceiling fans are dangerous to flying parrot in the home. During these times you should hem in the cage and take care of him safety and keep away from drafts to remain healthy.
- Opening window: Whether in the hottest or coldest air, the home is usually warmed up by ovens, fireplaces, and stoves. In such situations you often open a door or window to turn the home air into fresh and relief. Under this circumstances, opening the doors or windows create the hole and your parrot finds an opportunity come out of the cage and escape to the nature. Your parrot must be away from any draft that is dangerous for his health.
The presence of other guests’ pets in the party:
When the holiday celebrations start, some people may bring their pets to holiday household parties for their holiday visit. The presence of some pets such as dogs, cats or other pets in the family party can cause worried and disturbed. At first encourage your guests not to bring their own pets into your home, if they bring, remind keeping them completely separated during the celebration. If possible, watch out for these animals even for a minute.