
Simmer Down Suzie!!

I don't know if you are like us, but we love our pets and we also like a good smelling house. Sometimes with dogs, cats, birds, fish and the gamut of other pets inside the home, we go a bit nose blind. Prior to owning parrots I had no idea that amounts of chemicals that are in scented.... well anything. Plug ins, candles, spray air fresheners, those adorable little gel things that look like cones. Yep, we had them everywhere in our house. However, when Dexter the Timneh African Grey came along, I had thankfully done my research and figured out they weren't good for our animals, and to be quite frank, we were ingesting and enjoying the synthetic fragrances, and not too mention all of those delicious chemicals along with it.
Cutting the chord was not easy, and trust me, I looked into everything I could. Not to say our house smelled, I simply wanted something out of the norm from time to time, or that smell that brought back memories. However finding something that was questionable and might do damage to our birds, was absolutely not on the table. What was I going to do? I got creative, that's what.
