What You Really Need Before Bringing Home a Parrot
Often marketed as simple to care for creatures, there’s a long list of demands for these exotic pets.
8 min readApr 1, 2020
Pet parrots have long been found as companion animals. Once kept mainly as a status symbol, parrots ranging the chipper budgie (yes, they are parrots too) to the difficult macaw family can now be found in almost any household. Granted — that isn’t always a good thing. Many people have no idea of the commitment they are taking on when bringing home a psittacine pet…
