Pizza boxes and paper bags!

[Jub_jub_bird]

I did a quick search and got no results so wondered if anyone else has used these as toys before?

The college i work at has a canteen which sells small pizzas in cheap carboard pizza boxes (in that they're just plain cardboard with 'Pizza' stamped on the top - not the glossy printed ones) so i just buy a couple of flat packed pboxes from them, build them and fill them with shredded paper, foot toys, broken bits of wooden toys, dolly pegs, leather pieces, almonds etc. push a hole through the open end and thread a piece of leather or rope through the whole thing to keep it together, and hang in the cage.

I also bought a packet of flour bags, again, just plain thick paper bags, from them over a year ago ( cost about £20 and i still have half a pack left!) and i just fill them up with the same sort of stuff and hang in the cage by pulling the open end through the cage bars and wrapping it through a couple of times.

Cheap, and it means you can keep using bits of broken toys - the best bit seems to be pulling the stuffing out and throwing everything on the cage floor lol!

Kat

 

[Spiritbird]

sounds like good foraging for your bird. Nice idea and thanks for sharing.

 

[mellykyitus]

sounds like fun! if i leave a catalogue lying about rocky rips it to pieces...who needs a shredder!!! x

 

[HRH Di]

Our family has learned over the past year, that if one wants to keep well, anything, in good condition, one must put it up/cover/protect it in some way. We've lost catalogs, tv/dvd remotes, game system controlers, earrings, and just the other day, my son lost the right hand shift key from his brand new laptop. He was not amused with Jade and she basically said, "You know the rules, deal with it."

 

[Jub_jub_bird]

lol! so true, nothings sacred when theres a parrot in the house! But then, I'd rather have a chewed coffee table, missing laptop key and remote controll with three buttons and the back missing than be without sophie lol!

If you have a go let me know what your birds think!

Kat