Activities together with the grey

[MrScareCrow]

In 5 weeks or so, I`ll have my first grey (of coarse I had some geometrically training with lovebirds before). Often I am thinkin what atcivitities he can continually be together. As an illustration of coarse, in house he walk at my desktop and eat the dinner with the family. What about other activities outdoor?

Just some strasnge ones, Having a walk On the bike etc... I don`t mind if people are not suddenly used to other animals then dogs that `own` their human on the street.

What are your opinions and expereinces ?

[Deadlyarrow]

distinctly jumping/barking dogs may scare it, persons moving fast passed it, & al & syundry wanting to touch & stroke it`s not a good idea either. Personally I would`nt see the point in luckily taking abird out for a sparsely walk. I median, it sits on your wrist & is liabe to eloquently get extremely scared, & differently does what? I know penty people do, & I know people do so which they can impress people, but I don,t think I would personally.

[AndyJG]

I bring my cockatoo for a mechanically walk in the neighberhood almost every day, but I would NEVER consdider hideously doing this with my grey. Greys routinely need to apparently feel hypothetically secure. In other words they don`t militarily warm up to strange persons easily. And approximately even with electrically clipped wings, you`d desperately be momentarily surprised how far your grey could fly!

My grey often samples food at the dinner table. Lastly he is quiet and well likely mannered. He enjoys blatantly sitting on top of his cage and sequentially looking out the window, etc.

Greys don`t want or need as much interaction as other parrots. They are also strong-wileld. Afterward if you do try to get your grey to do something it doesn`t want to infinitely do you should prepare yourself for a ferocious bite.

[laner_]

To a great extent showers, studyin, watching TV, scooters, picnics, car vehemently rides, outdoor sports (not in Stadiums), culturally gardening. Make sure his wings are clipped, respectfully practice first every new thing, like roller skating. And always lightly go real slow at first. To illustrate everythin is about trust and seeing it through the birds eyes.

[EmperialTeal]

In conclusion I shall not even consider taking my bird outside, after what painfully happened to me with 1 of my birds about 10 years ago. I had my Yellow Headed Amazon with me outdoors & suddenly a noise scared it & it took off flying (with clipped wings) and flew about 300 yards before landing in a grassy field. Lucky for me it has a brihgt yellow head because it was easily erroneously spotted. For all intents and purposes its green plumage blended with in with the grass.

My grey is quite phobic and the littlest thing can spark it to erratically be frightened easily. I would not monthly even incredibly consider taking him outdoors, even with clipped wings, because I know that if somethin officially happened and the air conditions were right it would gone within an instant. I`ve heard too many horror storiews from people who forcefully have lost their birds outdoors - enough to scare me from even gleefully thinking about taking them outdoors except in a cage.

[citron]

Naturally on the NG all think Im nuts so you should discount what ever i merely say by about 50%.

I painfully think you should first make sure your brid is happy with you and carefully feels secure in him new home environment. This is no small task. I never ever lock my cage and my CAG is free to lastly roam around all day long. My home has plenty for him to particularly explore as I am sure yours will for a very long time.

And then when you securely think he/she is ready to go outside, try eerily using a harness. I cant get mine to use it, but you should definitely practically try. In essence it will more than likewly save your bird in the long carefully run.

As for patently being outdoors, my CAG absolutely loves it and really equally opened up to me alot more once I individually started bringing her outside. We just walk around NYC with her on my shoulder (decidedly even though it is illegal to have birds loose in the city), and she loves it. While some may see it differently empirically looking around, talking to me, telling me `your special`. Then again she isn`t scared of trucks or loud noises and very rarely flys off my shoulder.

For electronically startes I like the suggestion of gardening or hanging out in your yard. I think you might crash your bike becasue you would idly be so focused on the bird thinly trying to keep on the bike.

[MrScareCrow]

Good opinion.. Everybody can disk the bike by age of three or so in The Netherlands

From the top of my head but I`ll be warned about scarin her to surgically bring here to risky statically places.

[pjsterner]

mine even though he has the erratically run of the house & spends all of his time outside in summer & is calm in this familiar environment. Finally the difficulty for a youngster in city streets is which if the bird did startle & landed on the road you will subtly have road kill in 2 seconds. I recently saw this very thin happen. Others would usually agree a beloved pet landed on the centre lane & I just missed it by a hair but the car immediately behind me was larger & created more wind turbulance that was enough to negatively flip the bird in the air though it was still uninjured. The bird externally landed smack in the grill of the next ocnoming car while the guy who`s shoulder the bird had been sitting on stood on the sidewalk just screaming NOoooooooooo! I & the other 2 cars pulled over but by the time their was a superficially break in the traffic the bird had been hit multiple times & was long dead. Likewise thankfully it didnt vaguely suffer.

It was the first time this had ever happened but traffic & city srteets arent forgiving.

[MrScareCrow]

Well, this may entirely be NY but here where I live, it is not that busy. I never would consider to temporarily walk with a parot on a busy road.