🐦 Penn-Plax Bird Life Activity Center – Ideal for Small or Juvenile Birds Review

I just bought a second one. The first was used by my yellow neck every day as its "watch me making breakfast" zone. He ended up chewing it so well I had to get another one. This went on for several years. Long enough to double the price anyway. Never trust penplax as a brand. Throw away the metal, throw away the rope, throw away the glue. Use Elmer's glue or another child-safe glue instead. This is a great item (once you eliminate the potential hazards) from a crappy brand that has proven time…

My girlfriend loves to watch me cook and also to put on make-up. I wanted her to have something small and moveable to sit on so she could do it more often. I'm demoting one star due to serious flaws that others here have also noticed: the copper bell is poison and belongs in the trash, the colored wood needs to be washed as the factory didn't, after painting and during the assembly process. was easy, I found the bottom support bar and the longer bar holding the rope needed more than glue to…

Very nice playground for my kennel. The assembly required some patience. The glue that comes with it isn't the best so I can't say it won't fall apart over time. But it's great for now. Now all I have to do is convince my bird to stick with it. 2 weeks later: beware of the dye in this playground that can harm your parrot. If it gets even a little wet, it will come off. I had a blue billed bird with red lining and red feathers because of the amount of paint on that thing. I wouldn't have bought…

Overall the product seemed good until my green cheeked kennel got heavy metal poisoning. I blindly trusted this product as it was a playground for birds, but copper turned out to be useless to birds. The vet told me my kennel was lucky I brought him in as soon as he could die. If you are thinking of buying this product, the first thing you should do is throw away the bell. I'm sure you don't want your bird to suffer and end up paying for expensive veterinary care. PS For those who don't know…

I bought a more expensive natural wood that is screwed but I bought this lighter one. I was a bit disappointed at first because it sticks together. I was afraid it wouldn't be that strong, but parrots weigh next to nothing. It's been a few weeks now and seems solid enough. We almost prefer this one because there's not much to do on the pricier one. It has two swings but the chains are not strong enough. The birds don't like that. This one also has a bridge, but once you've walked over it a few…

PetSmart has similar models for $30-40. This is a very good size for parrots and the like. Budgies have a bit of a hard time with a big yellow perch on top, but they enjoy every other aspect of it. The bell, I'm not at all sure what it's made of, I knew it came with copper, but the bell I received wasn't copper at all, I can't identify the metal, so I have it kept off the hook. Instead I have a handmade cigar made out of paper towels (made from timmothy seed/hay) which my birds love way more…

So I only went for the XL because the price for the size compared to other play pens I've researched have, was good. It's a bit big for my parrot but she still has a good time. I think they have a really old stock of these things because my box looked old like it was from the 90's. But the arena was ok. I replaced the brass bell with another toy bell from Walmart to make that work too. Overall this is a good playground for medium to small sized birds, I don't see an African Gray here but I…

I read the reviews and was warned about the nature of the product so it got 3 stars instead of 2. Definitely not a quality product - the wood is brittle and the ladder came broken in the box (see photo). Because of the price, I decided it wasn't worth dealing with a return, so I tried gluing the pieces together, which (sort of) worked. This made assembly difficult, but hopefully it will hold together. After being frozen overnight I started building a playground. As already mentioned, the paint…