Chili

Meet Chili

Pineapple Green Cheek Conure • Age: Unknown • Independent Spirit with Untapped Potential

Chili is a gorgeous Pineapple Green Cheek Conure who’s been with his current family for the past six years after being rescued from a previous owner. His exact age is unknown, but what’s crystal clear is that this little bird has a big personality.

Right now, Chili prefers to do his own thing. He’s not especially into being handled, but that doesn’t mean he won’t get there. With patience, trust-building, and someone who understands bird body language and boundaries, Chili could absolutely become more interactive. He just hasn’t met his person yet.

He loves ringing bells, watching the household from a safe perch, and chiming in on his own terms. He’s healthy, doesn’t pluck, and enjoys a balanced diet of NutriBerries and fresh fruits and veggies.

Chili tends to do better with women and thrives in a calm, steady environment where he can feel safe and respected. He’ll do best with someone experienced or willing to learn, who understands that the most rewarding relationships with parrots are the ones built over time.

If you’re patient, kind, and looking for a feathered companion who just needs someone to believe in him, Chili might be your guy.

Age: Unknown

Sex: Unknown

Prefers: Males or Females? Females

Other Bird Aggressive? We haven’t allowed this bird to interact with other for their safety.

Cage Aggressive? No. He’s more nervous.

Adoption Fee: $200

Cage Available: Affordable used cages available to purchase starting at $100-to 250 up to 1000.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS:

***Information that is universal to every bird:

1) Birds are typically not family animals. They usually choose a favorite and at best you can expect them to tolerate everyone else.

2) Birds are not great with kids, dogs, other birds, and are not cuddly with everyone, nor can they really be trained to be. Birds are flock animals, who are social creatures that need to be in a communal area where they can see the rest of the family, or you may eperience serious vocalization and behavior problems. We’ve never met a bird who is great with kids, but we have met kids who are respectful of birds.

3) Birds bite. But, you shouldn’t “take the bite”. If you’re getting bit, you haven’t earned the trust of the bird, and are pushing the bird past his/her limits. You must figure out what the bird needs, and make what you’re asking of the bird more attractive than what they are already doing.

4) Birds are not “dominance” based creatures. Your only option for birds is to earn their trust. If they are, say…on top of a cage and don’t want to come down, that is where they feel safest, not a dominance thing. They are not trying to exert dominance, they just don’t want to come down. Your job as a parrot owner is to figure out what you can do to help them trust you, and whatever you are asking to be more attractive than what they are already doing.

5) NEVER send money over the internet for adoption with any individual or organization for the adoption of an animal you have not met in person. That is almost always a scam.