Does Your Bird’s Rope Perch Look Like This One?

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If it does, you need to get rid of it… literally, THROW IT AWAY!

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That’s what I did because that picture is of one that was in one of my cages.

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You see, there was this one spot on that perch that all three of my medium sized parrots loved to hang upside down from and after a while, they eventually ended up making the rope perch fray and come apart by unravelling. As I was spending time in the den, I looked inside to the bird room and saw my cockatoo, Bandit, playing in it and having a grand ‘ol time. Once I noticed how frayed the rope perch was I went running in and here’s why…

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I had a friend whose umbrella cockatoo, Abu, died from getting caught up in a frayed rope toy. He was left to hang upside down for HOURS before anyone knew he was stuck and even attempted to chew his own leg off to get out of it…

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As fun as rope perches and toys can be for our birds, they can also be deadly if you don’t pay attention to how destroyed they might be getting. It’s important to replace them once they start to fray so nothing happens to your birds.

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I was lucky I realized when I did because that rope perch went from perfect to looking like this in no time! Once that strand broke, they all broke and it unravelled like it did. When I went in with a pair of scissors to cut the excess fraying ends off in the hopes to salvage the rest of it… I was shocked to see Bandit had decided to step up on me and couldn’t free his other leg. I cut him free and easily pulled the ends off – he didn’t realize it was a big deal because of how it all had happened but I knew what could have been.

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I cut the ends and waited, sure enough, it came apart immediately again once stepped on by another bird. I HAD to take it out to keep my birds 100% safe.

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Keep your birds safe and REPLACE FRAYED ROPE TOYS AND PERCHES!