When Chris & Holly were at the vet's last week for their annual check ups, I bought them a "foraging kit." Parrots in the wild spend a huge part of their days foraging for food. This keeps them focused and busy. Captive parrots (aka pets) don't have to forage for food so they can get very bored and become destructive to their surroundings and even to themselves (ie feather plucking). Cockatoos are particularly vulnerable to this. Consequently it is very important to provide pet parrots with lots of stimulation to keep them busy and provide them with hours of fun. The best way to do this is with loads of toys in all differest colors, shapes and materials. Chris & Holly's cages and play areas are loaded with toys. DisneyWorld Manhattan comes to mind when viewing their cages. The foraging kit we got at the vet is a bag of assorted toys and it looked like the kinds of things the boys, Chris especially, would love.
And, it just so happens that the veterinary hospital is having a contest to find the best video of one of their patients utilizing skills and information learned via the hospital. So, I thought a video of Chris playing with the items in his foraging kit would be a great idea. Chris had other ideas......below are two versions I shot, neither of which I have submitted yet. Not sure they are contest ready.
Hats off to our foraging kit
The cockatoo steals everyone's heart
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