- At some point in time having your bird fly out the door or window can happen to anyone. A loud noise or bang and an open door or window and there they go. This does not mean you are a bad pet owner, it happens. Here are some tips for you to follow because usually the first place the bird heads for is the trees.
- Hopefully you can retrieve your pet bird from the tree, harm free. Remember he/she is scared, and they want to come home but they are scared and in unfamiliar surroundings.
- Keep calm, and keep talking. Hearing you keeps them calm and believe me they know you are doing your best to get them home where they belong.
- Of course the next step is getting up the tree. It's best to have someone going up the ladder that the bird knows. And also someone he/she knows still talking to them on the ground. Hopefully this will keep he/she calm and not taking off into another tree, but from my experience from last night this does happen.
- If you can before climbing the tree take a treat with you and try to coach he/she over to you. Or even put her/his cage outside and leave the door open with food and water to see if he/she flies into it.
- In my case believe it or not when I lost my bird she responded to me when calling her. So if your bird gets lost in a tree, stop and listen and see if you can hear them, and then you can head in that direction.
- Another good tip, is if you have other birds try bringing that bird out in a carrier and see if your lost bird will responded.
- I have had this bird get out once before, that time was in the summer. And that was scary, so if your bird becomes missing for more than two days, hit the Internet, there are hot lines, and classifieds to post his/her picture, and other details, in case someone finds her/him.
- Also hit the neighborhood, let your neighbors know what happen and give them your phone number so they can contact you in case they see him/her. Also take a photo with you show you can give them something to compare to if seeing him/her.
- And of course, as I had not done recently, CLIP THE WINGS. But know even clipped winged birds can still get out.
- You won't believe it, but your bird can travel to another city, or even state so don't wait to long to hit the classifieds.
- 911ParrotAlert.com. is a great place to start a ad.
- Lost parrots don't get turned in to shelters, most of the time people will keep them. Hopefully you will find that one good person who is a animal lover and know how they would feel if their pet was lost.
- Best of all don't give up. As much as you love your animals is as much as they love you.
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Taking the cage out has always worked for me. Just set it outside where they can see it with the door open. Has in the past sometimes taken a couple of days but they do eventually come back. I now have warning signs on my doors, beware of escapee bird. Our own fault when he he was younger would let him sit out on the deck all the time with us, as an old bird he likes to now go on his own.
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