The Coollapet Wiffle Play is four arms of dyed wood and beads radiating from a centre, each one finishing in a perforated plastic ball.
Key Features
- The perforated balls are the part that survives - a bird can hook a beak through the holes and swing the whole toy.
- Small pieces of millet or dried treat push through the holes, which turns the balls into foragers rather than just something to hit.
- Four arms means four places to work at once, which suits an aviary or a bird that bores quickly.
- Dyed wood blocks and beads along each arm for the chewing.
- Hangs from a single clip at the top.
Good To Know
- Perforated balls are a toe trap for the wrong size of bird. Check that your bird's foot cannot pass through a hole and jam - if it can, this is the wrong toy for 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.