Alex, conure parrot, after having traveled the length of the room to find a pen that he did not consider inappropriate.
Alex and his inappropriate pen.

Why your parrot thinks your phone is a toy (and other misunderstandings).

Kathy LaFollett
5 min readMar 8

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“Why do birds want to play and chew on the most inappropriate things?”

A fair question posed by a kind friend. As evidence of her conundrum, she sent me photos of the bird in question. Alex, after purposely walking across the floor to retrieve a dropped thing considered inappropriate for Alex. Alex, of course, didn’t agree with his thing…

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