The Coollapet Groovy Clown is a clown figure nearly 70 cm long, with beaded arms and legs, a card body and rope tassels for hands and feet.

Key Features

• 68 cm of toy - it fills the height of a large cage and gives a bird several places to work at once.
• Beaded limbs swing independently, so the whole figure moves when one part is pushed.
• Card and paper body shreds easily, which suits birds that pluck or over-preen and need something else to pull apart.
• Rope tassels at hands and feet for preening.
• Hangs from a single clip at the top.

Good To Know

• At 68 cm this needs a tall cage. Hung in a small one it blocks the flight path, and the bird simply stops using that half of the cage.
• Rope and woven fibre fray. Trim loose strands as they appear and retire the toy once it goes stringy - a thread wrapped round a toe cuts off the blood supply, and a swallowed one can knot in the gut.
• 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.
• Check the toy over every few days. Retire it once parts are chewed through, frayed or splintered - worn toys are where beaks and toes get caught.
• 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.