This month's Austin Parrot Society meeting will be hands on!
Emily Strong of From Beaks To Barks Pet Sitting will be presenting a foraging toy mini workshop!
Foraging is a hugely important part of our birds daily lives in the wild, and by providing these opportunities in our homes we can help prevent and treat not only boredom, but also behavioral and health issues.
Providing these opportunities does not have to take a lot of time or money and a lot of really fun foraging toys can be made from things found in the house that would normally go in the trash/recycling, and in just a few minutes.
Some foraging toy making supplies will be provided, but we encourage everyone to at the very least bring the following:
Scissors
Some of your bird's dry diet or treats
A bag to take home your newly made toys to your birds!
If you would like to bring supplies for you to use, or to share with others that is welcome also. Good things to bring include:
Toilet Paper/Kitchen Towel rolls
Cardboard/Boxboard Boxes
Brown Paper Bags
Popsicle Sticks
Rafia Finger Traps
Tamale Wrappers
Rafia
Bird Safe Beads/Buttons/Foot Toys
Broken down parts of toy (Please make sure these are disinfected hard plastic only if they are to share with the others... wood etc is fine to bring so long as you use it for just your own birds... this is to prevent possible spread of disease)
I expect this meeting to be a lot of fun and very educational for us all... even the most experienced foraging toy maker can learn something new from anothers ideas!
If you did not receive an evite for this event, or would like to be invited and join the mailing list then please drop me an email to austinparrotsociety@gmail.com
