A loving home with a good healthy diet is essential to keep your parrot happy. The first thing to do is to choose the type of parrot you want to have as a pet. When you have a parrot for a pet there are few things you will need to keep him happy and healthy. [...]

If you have not owned a parrot before, you are in for a pleasant surprise as a parrot is an entertaining pet. However you do need to do your homework on the type of parrot you want as a pet. As with any pet, the main consideration is to keep your parrot healthy. At Ideas-4-Pets [...]

Many people who are not well acquainted with owning birds and parrots may think that there is no real difference between a birdcage and a parrot cage. However, you’d be wrong in assuming that there is no difference. Parrots may be birds, but they are not suited to live in normal birdcages. Difference making factors [...]

All parrots, whether small or large will benefit from a good quality parrot cage and the larger the better !! If you are purchasing your bird from a pet shops you should be offered some advise on which type of parrot cage to buy, but it’s still better to do your own homework as well before purchasing.  Different [...]

Cockatiels are proving to be amongst the most popular of pet birds.  They are a small parrot and come in a variety of colours.   The colours on their face tend to be brighter and more vivid on the male cockatiel and the female cockatiel has bars on the underside of her tail feathers. Colour variations include albino, lutino, pied, pearl, cinnamon, and silver.  [...]

Although some bird owners would say that a bird cage cover is not an absolute necessity, cage covers do have some definite advantages for your bird. Firstly, a bird cage cover keeps out any draughts, keeping your bird warmer in the winter months.  It will help to keep out a certain amount of noise which [...]

When you decide to be a parrot owner, one of the first things you will have to do is choose your parrot’s cage.  This is very important because in the wild, a parrot would spend much of it’s day flying from tree to tree looing for his next meal or just playing with his peers. [...]

Parrots really do make wonderful pets but they certainly require plenty of your time and  attention because they are very intelligent creatures.  If you are thinking of investing in a parrot for the first time, you should make sure the parrot has been hand reared and that he is completely tame and easy to handle.  Ideas-4-pets would advise you, if at all possible, to [...]

Before you rush out to buy a parrot it’s important to understand that parrots are one of the most challenging pets to own and you need to be sure that you buy a parrot that best fits in with your lifestyle and personality. Did you know that some of the larger parrots can easily live [...]

I read the other day that a pair of orange-winged amazons had set up home in the wall of a Church near Hull and that their noisy squawking is now waking the neighbours up in the morning. Amazons are popular pets which can live to 50 or even 60 years old with the right diet [...]