1. You might kill your parrot using only your home.

• many common household products are dangerous for birds

• flighted birds can be killed by fans, drowned in toilets, burned in the kitchen, or escape

• self cleaning ovens, teflon pans, and secondhand smoke can be deadly

• parrots that chew on electrical cords usually become dead birdies

• many house plants are poisonous to birds

• older houses may have lead paint on the wood trim parrots love to chew

• human medications - unattended or dropped on the floor - are very dangerous to birds

• a sunny window can cause a bird to die of heat exposure

2.  You might kill your parrot by not knowing any better

• parrots die because nobody noticed the water bottle was plugged or the dish was empty

• parrots die because someone forgot to feed them

• parrots die from dangerous toys and cage parts

• parrots die from being fed the wrong foods

3. Parrots get hurt easily

• previously friendly dogs and cats often kill birds when instinct kicks in​

• parrots on the floor are often stepped on my accident

• parrots allowed to sleep in bed with people sometimes suffocate

4. Bad parrot-human partnerships usually end poorly for the parrot

• unhappy parrots can create intolerable levels of noise and destruction

• punishment never works

• problems can be hard to solve