Surrendering your parrot
 

If you have made the difficult decision to surrender your parrot, we urge you to please read the following information before you take the next step:

If you are feeling frustrated and regret that you brought a parrot into your life, you are not alone. Each year millions of parrot guardians are led to believe that parrots make wonderful pets, only to later discover that parrots don’t make good pets for most people.

You may believe that your only option is to surrender your parrot, for both you and your bird’s best interests. However, it’s estimated that most people who surrender their parrots are unaware of the potential and perhaps even simple solutions to modify their parrot’s behavior or change a problematic situation. And unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for some people to surrender one “problematic” parrot and replace him with another parrot, thinking that the next bird will be better behaved and less noisy, only to find themselves back in the same situation.

Parrots are highly intelligent, sensitive creatures. In many instances, a parrot’s problematic ScreamingAmazonTapedPicbehavior isn’t his problem but rather the result of his environment and how he’s being handled. By consulting with a legitimate avian behaviorist and by reading qualified educational material, you can potentially learn better behavior management skills to modify your bird’s “bad” behaviors. Attending bird clubs and having a “bird support group,” where you can listen to and share stories, may be all that’s needed to reignite the love you have for your feathered companion.

Here are just a few behavioral problems, dynamics, or environmental issues that can be potentially corrected:

  • Screaming
  • Chewing
  • Biting
  • Plucking
  • Difficult cage cleaning
  • Aggression
  • One person syndrome
  • Lack of available time

We realize that some parrot guardians may be experiencing circumstances that are out of their control and they don’t have the ability to consider these other options.  Keeping a parrot may not be in the bird’s best interest: it could even be detrimental or dangerous for a bird to stay in his present environment. In such cases, we support and encourage a surrender decision.

If this is your situation, please contact us by completed the Surrender Form on our website.