Coollapet Traffic Light Bird Toy with Bell

The Coollapet Traffic Light is three wooden rings hung one below the other, each holding a brightly coloured spool, with a bell at the bottom.

Key Features

• Three separate rings, so a bird works down the toy rather than giving up on one piece.
• The spools turn inside their rings and can be pushed out, which is the puzzle.
• Bell at the base for birds that want noise as well as something to chew.
• Narrow and tall - it hangs in a corner without blocking the cage.
• Hangs from a clip that fits standard cage bars.

Good To Know

• Bells are a known hazard for smaller parrots: toes and tongues catch in the slots, and a clapper can be prised out and swallowed. Watch the first few sessions and take the bell off if your bird works at it.
• Chain, quick-links and bells are the usual route to zinc and lead poisoning in parrots. Watch for a bird that strips the coating off metal, and if you ever replace the clip, use stainless steel rather than galvanised hardware from a hardware shop.
• The colours are dye on wood. Expect them to fade, and to stain a wet beak and the cage tray - that is the dye, not blood.
• Match the toy to the bird. Hardware built for a macaw will trap a budgie's foot, and a toy built for a budgie is destroyed in minutes by a large parrot, leaving pieces small enough to swallow.
• A bird that stops playing, sits fluffed on the cage floor or goes quiet is showing the first signs of illness - birds hide sickness until they can no longer manage it. That is an urgent avian vet visit, not a wait-and-see.