Hamsters enjoy making friends with you and being handled. But gentleness is essential as they are easily frightened by sudden movements and noises. Parrot-like birds like to play with a variety of toys. Toys to avoid include chains with small links that could catch a bird's toes as well as rubber and soft plastic objects. Better toys include bells, swings, ladders, hard wood, bark covered tree branches, rawhide, coconut shells, dried gourds and raw vegetables.
Toys are especially important for parrots that spend many hours alone.
When buying your bird, look for one with clean, tight feathers and clear, sparkling eyes. Healthy birds, except parrots, constantly move to and fro and are alert to their surroundings. If you are buying a young parrot and it squawks or screams continuously as you approach it, it is probably unsuitable. Water Conditioner from Kordon Quality Aquarium Products provides a protective colloidal coating on your fish's body during injury. As the fish recovers, the natural slime layer is replaced and the synthetic coat is sloughed off the fish's body.