Parrot Food

My Parrot screams for food . people food . How do I make her stop?

My family gives her whatever they have ( with the exception of avocados ) to shut her up .

Birds are, by nature, social animals, so unless you have other birds for them to socialize with, then YOU have to do the socializing. For most of us, this is not a burden but a pleasure. After all, why else would you have a bird? If you just want something pretty to look at, then buy a picture or a statue.

To me it would be criminal to cover the bird up and isolate it from what community it has–i.e., you and your family–as some would suggest. If humans are going to accept that it is ethical to have birds as pets, we owe it to them to try and make them happy “psychologically.” Parrots are sentient animals, not feathered dolls to be casually stroked. Possessing sentience, they are endowed by their creator with certain rights.

There’s a very simple solution to the food problem: make your people food into healthy food and give the healthiest part to your bird. You and your bird will both live longer. I put frozen peas, for instance, into most things I cook, even omelets, specifically so I can fish them out for my Ziggy (or let him fish it out for himself.) Our diet is low salt and low fat, with lots of spices. The more spices you have, the less salt you need. And, contrary to the expectations of a previous answerer, hot sauce would probably make the parrot like the food even more. I put serranos or jalapeños into almost everything I cook, as well as into Ziggy’s produce bowl regularly.

I have extended discussions on the human/parrot food issue on one of my PWPs (link below.)

By the way, parrots are well known aficionados of cooked eggs. I have to admit that I try not to crack eggs in front of Ziggy, not because of the cannibalism aspect, but because I have the occasional pang of worry that he might think it’s a parrot egg. As far as eating chicken, meat is meat, and they don’t know or care where it came from. There do exist parrots that kill for meat, and they are all omnivorous. Although the term cannibalistic denotes a specific behavior, the use of the term has a moral connotation apart from the behavior, but in the case of parrots, there is no morality to be involved, so don’t worry about “kinda cannibalistic.”

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