Parrots, at least Umbrella’s, are extremely destructive. I have to, on a daily basis, repair old toys or make new ones to keep Lemon (Umbrella Cockatoo) busy while he is in his cage during the day. His favorite medium’s are paper and wood!

In the bottom of his cage I put in a section of newspaper which he will shred in just one day.

One day I got the idea to take scraps of heavy cardstock and make my own paper shredders.

While these were very simple to make Lemon destroyed them before the day was over!

Take heavy cardstock and cut into rectangles.
Fold in half then cut into strips leaving the top area uncut so you can punch a hole and tie it to beads and rope.

For this one I used a pillowbox template and heavy cardstock.
Punched holes in the top, sides and bottom and tied with short pieces of raffia.
Each pillowbox has a few edible goodies inside!

Our cockatoo also has a hunkering for Fred Meyer Snickerdoodle cookies. Since we want to feed him healthy stuff I found a whole wheat Snickerdoodle recipe HERE and made some over the weekend.

Hubs gave him one yesturday and reported back that Lemon didn’t like it. We will continue to give him one until they are gone hoping that over a few days he will develop a taste for them.

In the meantime I found Avian Organics (we’ve added their link to our blog) and see that they have quite a few interesting treats that I will be ordering!

Rebecca
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