Hello,
You may have read my introduction post on the Welcome page.
If not, here is a brief summary. I'm an experienced parrot owner and have owned several of parrots from Sun Concures, B&G Macaws, Cockatoos and Amazon, most of which we're reared and hand-fed by me. Life came along with marriage, children, divorce and well, life it self, I found myself having to find new homes for my feather babies. I have a heart for animals and it's actually the taking care of them that I enjoy most. My son says, I have an insatiable need to be nurturing and feeding something. LOL
I find myself soon to be an empty nester and will be living my with little four legged friend, a little dachshund, name Frank. I have found a lady nearby who is selling her 3 yr female Eclectus and was looking for someone who had experience with parrots. I went to see her and I and her beautiful baby girl bonded immediately. She actually come more to me than her owner.
Here is my question - Yes, I do work. My job takes me out of the house about 8-10 hours a day. I often times can work from home and there is even a possibility that I may be working from home permanently in the near future. Once home though, I don't generally have to many outside activities. Weekends are the same, except for the usual errands and church and an occasional social event.
Here's the question I'm sure if you could have a $1 for every time you heard this. How much time should your parrot be alone. This wasn't a problem back when I had several parrots because they would keep each other company. But now it does concern me. So do parrot owners not work??? Do only work from home people and retirees get to own birds? Surely, there must be people that own parrots and still get out there and earn an income to be able to feed themselves and their parrots?
If there is a thread out there on this subject that I should go to, please direct me.
Thank you,
Yoli
You may have read my introduction post on the Welcome page.
If not, here is a brief summary. I'm an experienced parrot owner and have owned several of parrots from Sun Concures, B&G Macaws, Cockatoos and Amazon, most of which we're reared and hand-fed by me. Life came along with marriage, children, divorce and well, life it self, I found myself having to find new homes for my feather babies. I have a heart for animals and it's actually the taking care of them that I enjoy most. My son says, I have an insatiable need to be nurturing and feeding something. LOL
I find myself soon to be an empty nester and will be living my with little four legged friend, a little dachshund, name Frank. I have found a lady nearby who is selling her 3 yr female Eclectus and was looking for someone who had experience with parrots. I went to see her and I and her beautiful baby girl bonded immediately. She actually come more to me than her owner.
Here is my question - Yes, I do work. My job takes me out of the house about 8-10 hours a day. I often times can work from home and there is even a possibility that I may be working from home permanently in the near future. Once home though, I don't generally have to many outside activities. Weekends are the same, except for the usual errands and church and an occasional social event.
Here's the question I'm sure if you could have a $1 for every time you heard this. How much time should your parrot be alone. This wasn't a problem back when I had several parrots because they would keep each other company. But now it does concern me. So do parrot owners not work??? Do only work from home people and retirees get to own birds? Surely, there must be people that own parrots and still get out there and earn an income to be able to feed themselves and their parrots?
If there is a thread out there on this subject that I should go to, please direct me.
Thank you,
Yoli