Plastic Cord/Lace - Safe?

Inger · Jun 15, 2017

I bought a toy for Bumble and she loved it (in fact it's her first casualty), and it would be dead easy to make a bunch more like it. Instead of rope, chain, what have you to string the components together, they used plastic lace (like you get at the craft store to do beading projects with kids). I liked the idea that she can't get tangled in it, but I wanted to check in to see what you all think about the safety of it otherwise.

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SailBoat · Jun 15, 2017

When judging what is safe and what is not, it commonly comes down to what your Parrot does with it. Some Parrots chew everything into tiny pieces, small enough to be ingested and that is when even the safest product becomes dangerous.

Plastic cord /lace that is manufactured from 'safe' plastics (some are some are not) as noted above can become deadly when a piece or pieces begin to cut the digestive system apart. Or, its hangs from the cage top and falls to the bottom untouched. Same product is deadly with one Parrot and of no interest by the other.

What is safe for your Parrot is best determined by your observation. New toys are introduced slowly and during play observed by you as to how /what your Parrot does with it.

Follow the safe products guides and then Observe, Observe, Observe!

Dinosrawr · Jun 16, 2017

There's a type of rope called "Paulie" rope, being that it's polyethylene and not polypropylene. I think that's what you're talking about, and if it is that then it's definitely safe. It's one of my parrots' favourite things to work on, and my IRN is a notorious chewer for any type of rope. He loves to destroy coconut fibre, cotton, jute, sisal, you name it. And he destroys the Paulie rope too, but it doesn't fray and he can't get any pieces from it. So it's definitely a fan favourite over at my house and I'll pick toys with that and I'm thinking of reworking all of my boings/orbitals to be wrapped in Paulie rope too.

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