Best gaming chair for parrot owner

[PeentPeent]

So as you know
These guys poo and chew on everything

My bf has a fabric one with mesh and it's a nightmare for cleaning poop off



Luckily our parrots don't chew furniture so it being cushioned isn't a problem


Wasn't sure if anyone had good recommendations for easy to clean comfy gaming chairs

 

[GivemeSeedsorgivemeFlesh]

I'm not sure about gaming chairs, but I cover recliner chairs with bed sheets and pillow cases on the back. I cover anything else that I don't want decorated with old t shirts and fabric scraps. The lamp shade is covered with a hat. The book case in the birdie bedroom is covered with one of those rectangular bed protectors. Juliette however has surprised me with her bathroom etiquette and so far prefers to potty in her cage or on her play stand. She will actually fly over there just to poop. Last night I was cuddling her and she got squirrely and started to bite after being perfectly happy for over an hour in my shirt sleeve. I rushed her to her cage and she immediately did a big satisfying splat.

 

[onamom]

Well, I can tell you my hubby has a Secret Lab chair. Uh... Miss Ona has definitely done some damage to the pleather arms. She likes to chew them.

 

[rheashard2]

Nameliss doesn't chew on furniture. Her preference is for bath or beach towels thrown over back/seat of computer chair. I've noticed that there's less slipping with towels. If I'm sitting in chair the towel is removed from seat. I periodically go to thrift stores and stock up on them.

 

[Vampiric_Conure]

MY sister got a faux leather one from Ikea that she gave me. It's comfortable and although the faux leather peels a bit, it's stood up well to 2 cats, a dog, and to a lesser amount, the birds.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

What's a "gaming chair"? Do they make chairs just for people who sit and play video games? How does it differ from an office chair for people who work at a computer all day?

 

[rheashard2]

Gaming chairs are geared for hard core video game especially the multi player online. Their variety is interesting. They're high back, contured, with or without sound. Some have special effects with vibration to imitate star ship drives. The biggest thing is the comfort. It is geared for individuals who will sit in place for hours. Sometimes days. Office chairs are planned knowing you will get out. Gaming chairs are planned knowing that you won't get out. The chairs attempt to make it easier to maintain proper body positioning. Players can/will get enthusiastic jumping, bending dodging as they swing sword, cast spells or any number of other things. Some of those online multiple player battles can last hours. The trend is battles are in stages. Each stage can last hours. The actual time depends on strategy, level, skill and team coordination. Your team mates can be in different states or countries. You plan and utilize the facilities, have snacks, drinks, charged batteries, sit. Nameliss will sit on gaming chair for sedate games. Otherwise she perches else so she can watch player and game. Nope I don't have one. My daughter has gone through a couple.

 

[DonnaBudgie]

Interesting. Thanks for the great explanation. I can see the need for sure. I'm one of the few people in the world who (don't faint!) has never played a video game other than the old original Angry Birds (figures). I'm old enough to have gotten through childhood pre computer and in college we still had portable electric typewriters (and great parties). There were no video games yet. I took a programming elective in undergrad to satisfy a requirement and spent many hours in the computer lab. I got an A because the professor couldn't figure out why my final exam project program wouldn't run. I hear that some universities now have whole courses of study about Gaming. I couldn't imagine telling my parents I was going to college and major in Gaming, but my sister's son majored in Film at $50k+ a year but he's now a pretty successful commercial producer. It's certainly better for career opportunities than majoring in things like Fine Art or Anthropology.

Since then I've had many home laptops for personal use and work but was never interested in playing games on my computers or my smart phones. I use my smart phone a lot to communicate, entertain myself and learn about things of interest. When I have issues with my devices I'm pretty much lost but we have a great Cell Phone Medic here in town.

I guess this makes me an out of touch dinosaur. I don't really understand how someone could let playing video games take over all their free time. I hear of men and women who feel shut out because their spouses or kids spend countless hours glued to video games instead of IRL interactions and that must be very frustrating but I guess anything can become a bad habit, like budgies. But at least budgies are living breathing creatures and some even give me kisses!

Anyway, back to birds and how we protect our stuff from their destructive beakies! I find that some fabrics are notorious for snagging birdie toenails and it really sucks when your bird is freaking out because his toes are stuck in fabric. I like to keep their toenail tips smoothly rounded but not too short or they have trouble gripping. I leave the job to the avian vet techs. Looped terrycloth towels vs the cut plush kind can be real toenail trappers. I've had to pry so many budgie toes out of terry towel loops. I've even made the mistake of picking up a budgie I needed to handle using a looped terrycloth towel and having to spend 30 minutes prying his toenails out of the fabric. Just when I get one toenail released another one grips the fabric and here we go again! I've found the best fabrics to avoid toenail snags are fleece and cut plush towels. I have five baby sized fleece blankets with a budgie print to match my budgie bedspread that I use to cover cages and pick up budgies that need to be handled or moved and aren't cooperating. They also make the blankets with other birds like cockatiels and GCCS. When Joey runs around on my bed I almost can't see her camouflaged by all the giant budgies! Other bad fabrics include finely knit stretchy polyester spandex. Budgie toes get snagged in that fabric so easily.