Other Animals

Webinar: Avian Vet Insider: Most Common Cases Your Avian Vet Treats Date: Friday, June 11, 2021 Time: 12:00 pm PDT (double-check your local time with this time zone converter) Join us for a FREE, live, interactive webinar hosted by Laura Doering, former editor of Bird Talk magazine and Birds USA magazine. Our special guest, Dr.

Since the beginning of understanding, humankind has written–in many ways–about the complexities of life within their sphere. Whether those were etchings and paintings on cave walls, interpreted poems and stories that speak of hardships, movies with messages, books with concerns, and even music of blues, rock, jazz, or folk, life, and its hardships were being

Image by Oldiefan from Pixabay Birds are everywhere. You find them in your backyard, in the trees, and flying within your field of vision while driving or walking. You hear them sing their songs and make their otherwise friendly bird sounds as they go from one place to another. There’s really little you can do

Chameleons are absolutely incredible lizards. Perhaps none are more amazing than the Jackson’s chameleon (Chamaeleo jacksonii, Trioceros jacksonii, or the googly-eyed mitten-handed tree-ceratops). Clint takes a closer look at these amazing lizards to help you determine if this is the best pet lizard for you. ==== Mesh Enclosure: https://amzn.to/2Lq5CiE Real Plants: Pathos = https://amzn.to/2KFq68a Collection

What is the best pet lizard? This is a question that we have been attempting to answer since we started Clint’s Reptiles. Well, at this point, the emerald tree skink is, in my opinion, the best pet lizard that you could possibly get. I want to show you the new enclosure that we have built

Snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises and other reptiles can make incredible pets, but is a reptile the right pet for you? Should you get a crested gecko, a ball python, a blue tongue skink, a corn snake, a leopard gecko, a tegu, a hognose snake, a bearded dragon, or a monitor? What else is out there?

African grey parrots released back into the wild, photo courtesy World Parrot Trust Africa is the native land to several old-world parrot species. This month we will look at the ongoing work to protect the Congo African grey in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These parrots are quite beloved and famed in

A Very Merry (Un-)Hatchday in CovidLand…. A little photoshop magic shows what we would have LIKED our party to look like. I felt that the title was appropriate, given that (a) everyone I know feels as though they have dropped down a “rabbit hole” this year, into a place as confusing as Alice’s Wonderland, and

Webinar: The Picky Parrot: Teach Your Pet Bird to Eat a Healthy Diet Date: Friday, May 14, 2021 Time: 12:00 pm PDT (double-check your local time with this time zone converter) Help! My bird refuses to eat anything healthy! My bird isn’t going to touch that food! My parrot only wants to eat junk food!

Webinar: The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill: Where Are They Now? Date: Friday, May 7, 2021 Time: 12:00 pm PDT (double-check your local time with this time zone converter) Parrot lovers were captivated by the wild, feathered cast of the 2003 documentary by Judy Irving, as well as by their co-star, Mark Bittner. Join us

Nature! You’re something else. Not only are you gifted with a wide array of tools for creation, but you’re also plenty handy with colors and imagination. It doesn’t take too long to glance around us and see just how diverse the world is with its many forms of life. Shapes, functions, kind, various orientations that

photo by John Klavitter of the US Fish and Wildlife Service. If you were to ask yourself—or a wider range of people—what is the one thing you’d like in your life, it’s probably a long and healthy life. You’d probably add to that a strong and positive outlook going forward. No one would disagree with

Webinar: Avian Medicine: What it Takes to be an Avian Veterinarian Date: Friday, April 23, 2021 Time: 12:00 pm PDT (double-check your local time with this time zone converter) We have all seen the terms Board Certified or Avian Specialist or noticed extra credentials behind the DVM after a Veterinarian’s name. What do these mean

Webinar: The Grey Way: Adoption – A New Start with Lisa Bono, CPBC Date: Friday, April 9, 2021 Time: 12:00 pm PDT (double-check your local time with this time zone converter) Join us for a free, live interactive webinar! Lisa Bono, CPBC, owner and operator of The Platinum Parrot and a certified parrot behavior consultant

Millipedes, unlike their cousins the centipedes, do not have venom, and are generally very peaceful little arthropods. But do the giant millipedes make good pets, and are they the best pet invertebrates for you? ==== Substrate: https://amzn.to/2TEPr6n Cuttlebone: https://amzn.to/2HTeC4j Enclosure: https://amzn.to/31U0RsX Cork Bark: https://amzn.to/2KDCs0f Malaysian Driftwood: https://amzn.to/2rmiX3I Heat Pad: http://amzn.to/2gXqog6 Thermostat: http://amzn.to/2jiLLJr Water Bowl: https://amzn.to/31KO2B2

Griffin eyes his breakfast somewhat suspiciously while Athena looks on. I’ve discussed personality differences in parrots to some extent in previous entries but think that it is an important enough topic to revisit in some depth. To be perfectly clear, each bird has his or her specific personality. Like humans, some birds share certain traits

Tree frogs are great, but what if you want something even smaller? Reed frogs might be just what you are looking for! The starry night reed frog is small, beautiful, and fun, but is it the best pet frog for you? Use coupon code CLINTSREPTILES at joshsfrogs.com. It’s good for 15% off anything from our

A Moluccan cockatoo pair perch together in their native Indonesia. Photo courtesy of the Indonesian Parrot Project Wild parrots need our attention and help, not just to thrive but often simply to survive. Many worthy research and conservation organizations are working hard to protect a wide diversity of parrot species. Lafeber is committed to helping.

A wild parrot was found in Brazil with a devastating injury to its beak. For many years, the technological ability to help repair damages to nature has been on the uptick. One of the most satisfying trends has been 3D printing of damaged and essential parts of creatures in our animal kingdom and their appendages.

photo courtesy Jayde Parrey Nature has a funny way of evolving sometimes. One of its quirks is the mutation. Mutations can come in the way of color changes, and it can also slam up against the wall with a dual-sided male/female combination. We’ve seen this dual oddity in several birds, including the Northern Cardinal. Other

Webinar: Where do Baby Parrots Come From? A Veterinary View of Avian Reproduction Date: Friday, March 12, 2021 Whether you breed birds or have pet birds, it’s important to understand how a bird’s reproductive system works and to be aware of possible health concerns. In this webinar, Dr. Stephanie Lamb will discuss avian reproductive anatomy

Webinar: Grey Parrot Anatomy Project: An Update & Relevance to all Parrot Species Date: Friday, March 19, 2021 Time: 12:00 p.m. PST (double-check your local time with this time zone converter) Scott Echols, DVM, DABVP(Avian Practice) is the founder of the Grey Parrot Anatomy Project and will give updates on the comprehensive study. The information

Parrots are special not only because they are vocal learners, but also because they are open-ended vocal learners, able to learn new utterances their entire lives. Of the approximately 10,000 species of birds that have been identified, a bit fewer than half, less than 5,000, learn their vocalizations. Most of these are the 4,000 songbirds—called

Blue-and-gold macawsphoto by CLB/ José Antonio Díaz Luque Wild parrots need our attention and help, not only to thrive but often simply to survive. Many worthy research and conservation organizations are working hard to protect a wide diversity of parrot species. Lafeber is committed to helping. We hope you will be inspired as well. This

Webinar: The Grey Way—African Grey Behavior Date: Friday, February 19, 2021 Time: 12:00 pm PST (double-check your local time with this time zone converter) Lisa Bono, CPBC, owner and operator of The Platinum Parrot and a certified parrot behavior consultant specializing in African grey parrots, presents Episode 2 of The Grey Way, a Lafeber Pet

Image by sipa from Pixabay One hundred years is a lot of change for Earth. From technological advances, environmental changes, prevalent thought, and evolutionary movement, a hundred years can be defining in its historical containment. As the stress of Covid isolation rages on, the interests of birdwatchers, especially those who look for rare appearances, have

Building beautiful planted vivaria can be so much fun, but picking the wrong plants can mean that your beautiful enclosure doesn’t last. Clint reviews some of the best plants that you can use for your planted terrarium that will maximize both its beauty and longevity. Picking the right plants can be almost as important as

Photo by Forest Simon on Unsplash Let’s face it. We love our birds. We love them in the wild where we can watch them being completely themselves uninterrupted by anything other than being aware of preying species. And we certainly wouldn’t be here if we didn’t love exotic birds in our care. Every color, every

Webinar: Love is in the Air: Am I Sending My Parrot the Wrong Signals? Date: Friday, February 5, 2021 Time: 11:30 am PST (double-check your local time with this time zone converter) Dr. Stephanie Lamb will discuss the signals we send to our birds that can actually be hormonal triggers. This can include body language,

African greys often take a while to accept novelty. Introducing novelty early and, in later life, giving them plenty of time to adapt to new items may help. Photo by Hannah Dickens/Unsplash Photo by Hannah Dickens/Unsplash Nonhumans run the gamut in terms of where they land on a scale of neophobia (dislike of novelty) and