Lories are all natural clowns. Everything is a possible lory toy. They do use leather. Lories have a reputation for being messy because their nectar-based diet causes a liquid feces. Tex feels that lory areas are actually easier to clean, because their waste stays soft and can be mopped up or wiped off, rather than hardening and having to be scraped off.
Lories love baths.
If you provide a bath, they will usually bathe every day. They soak to the skin, and look like drowned rats after they bathe. If you provide a large enough bath container, they will actually swim across the container. Tex and Kathy feed a lory nectar mix, along with a fruit and vegetable mix, in the morning. The vegetables used are of corn, peas, carrots, and string beans, all steamed.