Easing Your Lovebird into Bathing

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m Sarah and I’m here at Extra Care Animal Hospital, and on behalf of expertvillage.com I’m going to tell you a little bit about owning a lovebird. As far as getting your bird used to bathing goes, some birds will startled the first time if try to just spray them with water or take them into the shower. Once again, birds are creatures of habit and anything new they need to be introduced to slowly. As far as doing the spray bottle goes, you can start your bird off by getting a spray bottle and just pointing it away from the cage. As far as getting them used to the spray bottle goes, if your bird startles the first time you use the spray bottle directly on them, just get the spray bottle and leave it sitting outside your bird’s cage all the time. Then once or twice a day, pick the spray bottle up and spray away from your birds cage, that way it gets them used to the spray bottle moving around and the noise of the water actually coming out of the spray bottle. Do that for 3-4 days to a week, then start spraying in the direction of the bird not directly on the bird. This will get them a little more used to it and maybe a little bit of the mist will hit them and they’ll get used to the sensation of the water. Do that for a week and then at that point they’ll probably be used to. It won’t scare them too badly and they’ll actually end up enjoying it. Once again, birds are creatures of habit and anything new they’ll sometimes be very nervous about. As far as getting them used to taking them in the shower, you can take their cage, if it’s small enough or put them in a travel cage, and take it into the bathroom with you when you shower. Do that for a few days to a week just like you did with the spray bottle, then move the cage closer to the shower. Then eventually, after doing that for a week, most likely take the bird into the shower, and put it either on the shower perch or on the towel bar. At that point, your bird should be comfortable with bathing and you have a bird that’s going to take very very good care of it’s feathers. "