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Originally Posted by red13413
I think if I do decide this is something I'd like to do, that I will go the African Grey route. I'm still concerned and am reading and doing A LOT of research. I'm lucky enough to be retired and can be home with the dogs and any bird I choose.
Do any of you travel with your birds? We have a motor home and travel fairly frequently...
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We used to travel all the time with our cockatiel. We had two smaller cages. One was about a one-foot cube that could sit behind the driver's seat on the floor (dog taking up entire backseat). Once at the hotel, we would let him out to crawl all over his cage or hang out on my shoulder. this travel cage was in order to get from FL home to MI home & back. Each home had its own big cage.
The other cage was about 16 x 18 x 20 and would fit in the back of my husband's car. We used this cage when we traveled somewhere for a vacation and there was no cage on the other end.
We found the bird traveled best in the car when the cage was covered and he couldn't see all the movement around him. He would natter away and talk to us a lot. Another thing was that since they love heat, you could get away with leaving him in the car while stopping for lunch--IF it wasn't above 80. Can't do that with the dog, though. So most of the time we packed a lunch and stopped at a rest stop with picnic tables. We looked like the Beverly Hillbillies, but hey... at our age, who cares!