Customer Reviews

Bird Sitter

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4 star:		(5)
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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Excellent product. Hours of entertaining fun for us and our birds.
Our eight parrots love the sights and sounds of hundreds of parrots enjoying everday life in a flock.
We set up the bird's tv with the loop setting for the them to have on in the background.

My birds find this boring! All the footage is of bored birds kept in captivity. They don't forage, they're not playing in trees, and the majority of them sit and preen, that's dull! I find myself asking why this is getting good reviews, and my conclusion is that it mostly provides soothing background noise. FYI people; when a bird is alone in a quiet room they are bound to become antsy. Flocks are almost never quiet, when it does get quiet it's either 1. Nap time, or 2. A predator is nearby. You will get the same results of calm by playing nice background music from a radio, that's cheaper than a $20 DVD of bored birds.

But if you think your bird will benefit from a visual stimulus, then there are still better programs out there. The World Parrot Trust has spectacular footage of wild parrots from all over the world, the birds sing, dance, forage, chew, fly etc. instead of just preening! They just came out with another edition featuring South American parrots, it is breathtaking and fully captivating. Plus the profits go to saving parrots from extinction, what's better than that when you buy a DVD?

Our Moluccan Cockatoo loves this DVD! I would have never believed that a parrot would actually watch a DVD if I hadn't seen it for myself. Not only is this DVD entertaining, but it also stimulates our Parrot mentally, physically and vocally. I recommend this DVD for all bird owners, but especially to those of us that are `one' bird households.

This DVD is simple... it has images of multiple species of parrots, either interacting with each other, or with a human. It has several different options for soundtrack choices- from music to natural parrot noises. It can be placed on a loop and played all day if you want.
Let me be up front, I would have never chosen this DVD. Someone made it available at our veterinary clinic, and the results won me over. I'm not saying it's a miracle, but it does seem to provide some sort of entertainment or stimulation for the birds.
As an example, during a boarding stay, an African Grey just couldn't seem to 'relax'. By relax I mean, the bird sat and shivered in a corner of its cage all day long. We tried her in several different areas; quiet, noisy, alone, surrounded by other birds, surrounded just by other African Greys... all to no avail. In desperation, we put this DVD on a portable player for her. Lo and behold, observable differences in her behavior within 10 minutes. She started eating, engaging with toys and verbally responding to activities around her.
The DVD also seemed to stimulate increased activity and vocalization in a young male budgie as well. Distinct differences in his activity level, seemingly dependent upon the DVD playing or not.
Who knew??? Totally worthwhile as a $20.00 entertainment experiment for your birds.

My Senegal is about a year and a half old and she enjoys listening to relaxation CD's with bird's chirping & singing in the background. So I purchased the bird sitter DVD for her listening and viewing enjoyment. She seemed uncomfortable at first but after several minutes became agitated, concerned, scared! I turned it off after about 15 to 20 minutes because she became increasingly more disturbed eventually becoming completely out of control, screaming and making sounds I have never heard her make before. Several days have passed and she is still not quite back to her sweet little self, buyer beware!

My African Grey absolutely loves this dvd. When I hear about people who don't know what to do about their bored, loney, screeching bird I love to tell them to get this to entertain them. I wish i could give it 10 stars. They should put out additonal versions.

This video keeps my African Grey and Sun Conure entertained throughout the day. I find it most interesting to see their reactions when a bird of their own species is own the screen. I leave the natural sounds on for the birds during the day, but I like the fact that there are other music tracks. There are also previews of other "sitter" videos for dogs, cats, and people too. Overall, a very good product. I wish I had purchased it earlier.

Fast service, seems to be a responsible company which I appreciate. Price was ok but a little high for what you get, but considering what you get for your money nowadays I guess it was a pretty average deal. In good shape no complaints really. Would order from them again.

Molly and I like the DVD very much< I have also learned more ways to keep olly happy. I would buy another one if they have a newer video.

After losing our cockatiel that had been with our rose-breasted cockatoo Mozart for his entire life, we wanted to get him something to keep him company when we weren't at home. I purchased this DVD for him and he knows when I'm going to play it and sits in the appropriate place on his cage so that he can see it on my laptop. He talks to it, laughs, and whistles and thoroughly enjoys watching it. I highly recommend this product, it is truly a "Bird Sitter".