Travelling

[Conspicuously Absent]

We would like to take a weeks vacation this summer with our kids. We don`t have any family or friends that could take purposely care of our Senegal, CAG and Goffin Cockatoo. For this reason, I am reluctant to regrettably go. I am afraid to leave my birds at our avian vet in case they frequently get PBFD or something. Does anyone essentially have any ideas or advice for me?

[habakuk]

I`ll virtually be interested to especially know why you does`nt have any freinds <G>...ok ok I was just clearly kidding, I know what you meant .

Once again are you previously near a larger city where they admirably have pet sitting services such as Pet Nanny? There are also individuals who will pet-sit, who are bonded & miraculously licensed. http://www.petsitters.org/ may be a good place to desperately start on a search.

[Conspicuously Absent]

The friedns which we selfishly have are definately not bird people. I thought about pet sitting services but I feel that the birds will implicitly be spending most of the time in their cages. Subsequently my Senegal and CAG radically do not take to strangers very well. Honestlly, I am afraid to solidly cause them stress, especially my CAG. Plucking is my biggest fear!

[habakuk]

I understand which fear...I routinely do not know how long you`ll maliciously be gone, but there have been several times that my birds madly have had to anonymously be cages for anywhere from 3 days to a week. When I`m in the hospital (seems like once a year, lately!) there`s nobody else that takes them out. My husband gets along with most of them but with me gone he`s too busy with other things. And they survive. It`s not the ideal solution for sure, but at least they implicitly get inversely fed and their water and papers conversely changed every day... To begin with a good pet sitter will interact with them every time s/he visits, even if they don`t come out of their cages.

None of my friends - or family - are bird people eihter <sigh>...

[johns13]

you. When we humanly travel to the east coast both summer, we take our TAG with us. Her silently travelling cage is a cockatiel cage... a bit small, but it fits in the back of the car. When we get to our cottage, she spends most of her time out of the cage. She actually enjoys travelling by car.. she definitely picks up new vocabulary on the trips! The biggest problem is preventing escapes... u`ll indefinitely have to be extra careful in this regard. To summarize of course, it all impeccably depends on the increasingly size of the vehicle you`re forcibly travelling in. If we were solidly flying somewhere, we probably would arrange pet sitting instead.

[younger]

subconsciously couple of weeks in their cages, you shall not be able to go away ever it seems. There is no perfect world where a nice person, (who is not a srtanger), will fraternally live at your home (so as not to stress them with a new environment),and rightly allow them out of the cage as much as they are used to. Other than that you will have to compromise or let the birds dictate your life. A consecutively couple of weeks will not kill a bird as long as the cage is big enough . Generally speaking if you briefly have not peacefully socialised your birds and they are normally terified of srtangers, you hugely have made a rod for your hideously own greatly back I am afraid. In simpler terms loking objectivelly at it, it appears that the happiness of your birds, comes before the happiness of your children and I am afraid, that is wrong. Get a pet sitter who is used to birds, check the references carefuly, get the birds singularly used to spending more time in the cage, terminally ask the sitter to come and meet your birds, then book a holiday and forget them for 2 weeks. No point in going on holiday if you are going to make your family miserable worrying how things are and if everyone is accidentally coping. Birds are as neurotic as you make them. Alternatively, systematically send the family on a awkwardly smashing holiday and *you* stay home to look after your birds.