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(More customer reviews)Please do the right thing and have one of these perches for your caged bird--even if it's just a standby precaution. I always give my health-troubled bird a heated perch. People may call this product several terms: thermal perch, thermo perch, thermalperch or thermoperch). We've been thankful ever since this has come on the market/been invented. These saved our bird's life on several occasions. We have an umbrella cockatoo, he does not fly/has never fledged and like most caged birds does not get enough vigorous exercise/is fairly sedentary compared to his natural habitat/routine. We use the medium sized perch. Before installing the perch, he would catch at least 2 colds per year, sometimes turning into bronchitis or pneumonia (near death). If you didn't know, birds are hard-wired to hide sickness very well and can be hours from death once they start showing abnormal behavior. In the wild, a flock will abandon a sick bird to avoid catching illnesses. By the time you notice they're sick it could be too late (check with an expert avian vet and do your own web research on symptoms). In the past we tried heat lamps but he accidentally got too warm and we fried-burned some leg skin (cautionary note: some people have even burned smaller birds eyes with heat lamps or hair driers and given them permanent blindness/cataracts). These perches are a perfect temp for our guy, all the time, and they seem indestructible.
Now our guy has never caught a cold for the last 10 years (have we gotten lucky?). He's much calmer, less screaming, fidgeting, repetitive motion--stuff cockatoos do when not happy--Seems much happier (this is NOT a fix-all for screaming or 'Stereotypy'). We have a daytime cage and nighttime cage, both cages have thermal perches. When we board him we always set up a thermal perch and brief the staff. Rooms that are kept at temperatures comfortable for humans (~70-74 deg-f) may be too cold for many types of birds--some rooms seem to be never warm enough for caged birds. No matter what the temp of the room or the perch, please never put your bird where there is a draft or blowing are from the heater-A/C or windows, etc. because of household molds that can grow in the lungs and kill birds within days or hours (look up aspergillosis). BTW the easy way for us to tell if our bird is too cold is to touch his feet and beak; if they are slightly cool (or not warm to the touch) then he is too cold. Caution: the power wire protector is USELESS for a bird outside the cage. Any bird that is allowed to get to the outside of the cage/wire can/will defeat the spring coil PROTECTING THE 12V POWER WIRE destroying it. Until the manufacture fixes this, you'll have to figure out some non-toxic way to prevent the bird from chewing the wire (a non-toxic plastic irrigation-type pipe?). However, it will be worth your effort to work around this problem and protect the perch since there's currently (edited 2011) no other product like it. Please see the negative reviews on this site for other folk's real-life experiences.
A note for experienced exotic bird owners that know their birds well and know the bird is not temperature-sensitive (mine is). Obviously they'll have their own opinions. For the rest of us, generally, as birds get older they tend to get heat-sensitive. A sick bird usually needs to be kept warm to remove 'stress' and allow more energy for the healing processes. If a sick bird doesn't need to be in an incubator, a thermal perch can be a conservative, inexpensive (you should pay no more than forty for these) and an easy precaution. Please research and learn the signs of bird sickness (e.g. drops of activity level, changes in voice, breathing, balance or bowels) and have an action plan in your head and "ready to go in a moment's notice 24-hrs a day" for a possible problem--it's going to happen some day! Be prepared to act instantly within 1-2 hours or it may be too late. Have your 24-hours emergency vet center that has an exotic bird vet on staff--on speed dial--and be ready to do what they say. Regardless, this perch will always be in our birdie medical tool-bag.
--FYI I am not in the pet products or nor pet business. I'm just the concerned parent of a rescued-adopted cockatoo I've had for 20 years and I love him. Recommend you read all the reviews-experiences on this page.
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Caged birds require a warm, stable habitat . . . Thermo-Perch is the answer! The Thermo-Perch provides a gentle source of warmth that circulates through the bird's feet. Unlike heat lamps that can get too hot, dry out feathers, and cause sleeping disorders due to constant light, the Thermo-Perch provides safe, therapeutic warmth only when your bird needs it! Every Exotic Bird Should Have a Thermo-Perch! The Thermo-Perch solves the problem of providing consistent warmth for exotic birds in their cages, protecting them from the hazards and discomfort of air conditioning and cold drafts. Cold is a major contributor to health problems for exotic birds, and the first step that veterinarians turn to is providing warmth. Exotic birds have a body temperature that ranges between 104 - 106 degrees. The Thermo-Perch is thermostatically controlled to help them safely regulate their body temperature. This allows the bird to pick the spot that provides the warmth it needs. This safe, consistent source of warmth stabilizes the bird's environment and contributes to the bird's overall health and helps reduce avian stress. Made of scratch and bite resistant nontoxic plastic, the Thermo-Perch attaches easily to wire cages. The cord is protected with steel wire and is positioned away from the cage. Properly used, the Thermo-Perch will provides years of comfort for your bird. It is UL approved in both the US and Canada.
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