Poor girls pac o bird!

I got this as a fun way to take my birds on walks! As I could not afford the pack o bird.. I love that it was less than fifty bucks!!! I love that the parrot can really see out! Probably don't like it will be hard to clean and may not hold up. Neptune was brave and seemed to enjoy our scooter ride!! Merry Christmas to me ( was gift to self)

'Ol Neppy looks quite comfy in his bargain pak-o-fid.. I wonder what Beebs would think?


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I think Beebs would love it too! I think it's going to add lots of enrichment to my birds lives! I also got the flight harness, but I'm afraid to start training as with all that went wrong with Ta-dah. But with this tote a bird everyone can still get out and about!!!! I love it! If it wasn't storming now I'd take out the others... I got it on the Amazon

It is lovely!

Oooh where'd you get that. It would be perfect for Apollo until I get him harness trained (and for car rides)

Amazon baby ! I don't know the real name of it , there is no brand on it, I just looked under travel cages and I had to look through many to find it. I really really like that they can see everything! But that also made Neptune scared when a buzzard was flying high overhead. I'm g hoping the more he gets out the more he will feel bold. He did really well for his first time!!
Edit : here is the name Colorday Lightweight Bird Carrier, Bird Travel Cage

Sweet!
Here ya go!
https://www.amazon.com/Colorday-Lig...ay+Lightweight+Bird+Carrier,+Bird+Travel+Cage
A few others popped up that deserve honorable mention!
https://www.amazon.com/s//www.amazo...+Bird+Carrier\c+Bird+Travel+Cage+&ajr=0&ajr=0

That looks great!! I also don’t have the Pak-o-Bird — too expensive!! I agree that taking them outside is really beneficial. When it’s warm enough, I take my birds outside in their travel cages and put them on the table to soak up some sunlight. I am also in the middle of harness training Kermit right now - it’s a slow process, but I’ve made it very positive for him and so far no setbacks. Since I live in Illinois and it’s winter right now, they’re not going outside anytime soon! (Which leaves plenty of time for harness training)

Pretty cool! And he can see 360-degrees out of it!!! Just make sure you don't leave them inside of that out in the sun or in the car, I know you know this already, but I just had to say it, because that will heat-up like an oven very quickly. Other than that it's awesome!

I'm all about DIY and cheaper alternatives, and the Pak-o-Bird things are ridiculously expensive, nice, but expensive...I made my own out of a $40 Ozark Trail Hiking-Backpack from Walmart. Looks like a Pak-o-Bird. Smells like a Pak-o-Bird. And I lied to Kane and told him it's a Pak-O-Bird...

EllenD said:

Pretty cool! And he can see 360-degrees out of it!!! Just make sure you don't leave them inside of that out in the sun or in the car, I know you know this already, but I just had to say it, because that will heat-up like an oven very quickly. Other than that it's awesome!

I'm all about DIY and cheaper alternatives, and the Pak-o-Bird things are ridiculously expensive, nice, but expensive...I made my own out of a $40 Ozark Trail Hiking-Backpack from Walmart. Looks like a Pak-o-Bird. Smells like a Pak-o-Bird. And I lied to Kane and told him it's a Pak-O-Bird...

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Lol
I want to see it!!! Post a picture!!!!

Super cute poor girl's pac o bird! It's reason to celebrate when you find a good deal on parrot products, thanks for sharing! The best part though is how adorable Neptune looks in his new adventure module.

Someone asked me to post a photo of it a long time ago when I first made it, and I forgot to do it, so I'll take one here today and post it...I actually made 3 of them; the first one was the "practice" one, although it worked out really well, it just needs to have it's sides fixed a little (I never re-did it because the other two I did the right way and I got lazy, lol)...It was a lot of trial-and-error with choosing what to use as the sides/back/front to make the bag "square" or however you want to say it, the sides/back/front not only have to be solid, and you have to then be able to cut places for the windows and the door. I already had a nice Burton hiking backpack that had a solid back to it, so I took it apart and remove the "internal frame", which is just a square/rectangular piece of flat, non-flexible plastic that is inserted down inside the internal and external fabric...So I went online and found large pieces/sheets of sturdy, flat plastic/acrylic that you can cut to size. Then I chose a material that I wanted to use to line the interior of my "pak-o-bird", and I chose a waterproof canvas type of material from Jo-Ann Fabrics, very similar to what the outside of backpacks are made out of. Then I sewed that internal-lining material onto each inside wall (front, back, left, right, top, bottom), leaving one edge on each side open...Then I cut individual pieces of the sheet-acrylic to fit into each internal "pouch" I had made between the exterior backpack and the interior lining material, and then sewed each pouch shut...I had first removed all of the external pouches/zippers/etc. from the backpack itself, and the opening was on the top, and I kept it that way, so the "door" to my pak-o-bird was on the top, but it was now a solid door and the backpack was a solid, squarish shape just like the real pak-o-birds. Then the hard part-cutting out my windows on each side/front, putting in the mesh for the windows, and sealing around the mesh...I put a window on each side and the front, and left the back (the part that rests against your back when you're wearing it), the bottom, and the top door solid. I found a very strong, see-through mesh netting with a tight weave at Lowes and bought one sheet of it, cut it to size, and then I carefully measured and cut window in first the external backpack material, then the internal liner material, and then I used my Dremel to cut-out the window in the plastic. Once I had a the window cut through, I then used Gorilla Glue Superglue-Gel to glue the plastic to the inside of both the external backpack material and the internal liner so it wasn't always slipping around inside of the liner..let that dry, then put the mesh windows inside as well, glued them in all around their borders, and then sewed some of the left-over interior liner canvas material to make a nice-looking, clean edge around each window...

I did the same thing on the top/door, secured the plastic frame inside the external and interior materials with glue so it was solid and not slipping around inside, and then used some of the interior canvas liner material to make a clean looking edge around the inside edge of the door. Then I sewed on 4 of those adjustible, plastic, interlocking clips that you see on backpacks/bracelets/etc. to the pack and the door, and then used some cool paracord in each clip to make it adjustable so that the door would shut/lock and be even...Then it was pretty much done, just had to put some nice fleece material on the inside floor of the pack, made a perch out of a 1" diameter wooden dowel and used the Dremel to make it uneven (to prevent Bumblefoot), and attached it inside with a $0.75 grommet glued to each side on the inside that the dowel ends just pop right into and can easily pop right out of for cleaning...I also attached a small-sized, plastic crock to one of the sides by using JB Weld to fuse the plastic crock holder to the internal plastic frame through the interior liner, that way the crock itself can just be pulled out for cleaning but it's holder stays permanently attached to the inside of the pak...That's pretty much it. Little details on the outside/clean-up of some edges and tightening of loose fabric...It really wasn't difficult at all to do, just a lot of trial-and-error with different materials...the hardest part by-far was making a solid, internal frame on each side/bottom/top/front that could easily be cut to insert mesh windows into...But the acrylic sheet plastic worked great, I just copied what Ozark Trail uses for their internal frames, lol...

Whole thing cost under $50, with the Ozark Trail hiking backpack costing $30 and the rest being the acrylic plastic sheets and the interior lining material, and then the $8 plastic crock.

Can't wait to see pictures!!!

Used my Christmas present again!!! Almost everyone got a turn.
Cloudy really seemed to enjoy!!!!




I hope Clear gets a chance to go for walks soon....he hasn't ever let me touch him yet.

if you want a real pac-o-bird and have a paypal just PM me....you're so awesome I'll give you the funds...(like a go fund me) but you have to buy a pak-o-bird with it! send link of what you want and paypal stuff. I'll Oprah Winfry or Ellen it to you.....

I'll expect pics in new pac-o-bird though....

the thing is...on this forum I don't even suspect anyone would be duplicitous....I love this site.



Oh it's a real offer laurasea...up to you. But what you have is ingenious.

Clark Conure, you are a sweetheart!! So very generous of you!!! But I'm actually happy with my poor girl pack bird!!!!
If you have the real deal I'd live to see pictures of your babies in it!!!!!
Once again you touched my heart!!!!! Big time!!!! What unexpected sweetness!!!!!!!