clayman
New member
- Jun 26, 2016
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- Parrots
- Female BFA's -- Ori and Tia (sisters, hatched in May '16)
Hi all,
once again I am looking up to you 'zon gurus out there for a piece of advice.
I am pretty sure most, if not all of you have come to a point where your 'zon was doing something you really did not want him to do. In my case, the older girl started some time ago (and the younger one too recently) to fly to and sit on the circuit breaker box in my flat. It's pretty high up so it is the perfect vantage point for them, it appears. It's in the hallway, though, so there isn't much to see for them, but does not seem to matter at all. There's a cable TV and doorbell cables running through the wall just above the box, which is enough of an incentive for them to start poking around. The main trouble, though, is that the box is an old design where the wires inside are visible/fairly easily accessible to their beaks, which, of course, is bad news. I have been doing my best to keep them away from that spot, but they would often fly to it immediately after I release them from their aviary. I'm afraid that I will be too slow once and they will get a shock from biting through the insulation of a wire.
I have been looking for ways to cover the top of the box to protect the wires from the beaks and vice versa, but it's not as straightforward and although it is probably necessary, that is not the solution I would prefer.
If you have ever had to deal with a similar situation, what was your approach and how did it work out?
once again I am looking up to you 'zon gurus out there for a piece of advice.
I am pretty sure most, if not all of you have come to a point where your 'zon was doing something you really did not want him to do. In my case, the older girl started some time ago (and the younger one too recently) to fly to and sit on the circuit breaker box in my flat. It's pretty high up so it is the perfect vantage point for them, it appears. It's in the hallway, though, so there isn't much to see for them, but does not seem to matter at all. There's a cable TV and doorbell cables running through the wall just above the box, which is enough of an incentive for them to start poking around. The main trouble, though, is that the box is an old design where the wires inside are visible/fairly easily accessible to their beaks, which, of course, is bad news. I have been doing my best to keep them away from that spot, but they would often fly to it immediately after I release them from their aviary. I'm afraid that I will be too slow once and they will get a shock from biting through the insulation of a wire.
I have been looking for ways to cover the top of the box to protect the wires from the beaks and vice versa, but it's not as straightforward and although it is probably necessary, that is not the solution I would prefer.
If you have ever had to deal with a similar situation, what was your approach and how did it work out?