(08-18-2013, 05:44 PM)Raccoon Wrote: Hey there.
I've gotta ask. How does one (safely) adopt both birds and cats? I imagine there would be cheaper ways to feed the cats. >.>
Bwuahaha. Well, we had a 'tiel before we adopted our first cat, Flora. So she's always sort of been around a bird. She's never payed him any attention as long as he's not on the floor (which we don't let him wander around on anyway.)
The next cat we adopted a few years later, we had the two 'tiels, two quaker parrots and a blue crowned conure. So Isis came into our family with big giant birds. She had a mild interest in them, but a squirt bottle of water and a gentle, "Nope," to accompany it broke her out of the habit of going near the cages or the birds at all when we brought them out.Â
When we bought the house and adopted the last two birds--budgies--(Sadly, one of the 'tiels passed away recently. Originally we had 7 birds) we repeated the process of using a squirt bottle on the kittens for any behavior we didn't like. It's humane and boy they respond quickly.Â
So that's pretty  much the trick to it in our house. We don't let our birds hang out on the ground where the cats are, and the cat's don't hang out in cages/on our shoulder so it works!Â
Wow. A wall of text for you! xD
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