Diapers for birds
The FlightSuit is a lycra diaper for your bird, designed not to impede flight while capturing those pesky feces and hold them at a safe distance from the little feller. Use raw, or with disposable liners.
Bird Diaper (via Red Ferret)
See also: A product only my cleaning girl will love: Bird Diapers
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How has the world survived without this, I'm buying one, then I'll buy a bird.
This is one great idea... for me to poop on!
never lived with a bird, eh?
psh, its only digested seed. the japanese have been rubbing it on their faces for centuries. :P
a.) Jack @#2 wins.
b.) Was that a bird diaper designed to look like the stars and stripes? I don't want to seem all hyper-sensitive about my patriotism here, but something that is made to look *very* similar to the American flag which is meant solely as something to be shit on/in? Astoundingly disrespectful.
I have a Senegalese parrot and even though she is just a little 12 oz can of evil I have to honestly tell you that getting a bird into a diaper is NOT as easy as it sounds.
They can twist and wriggle like greased cats and when they sink that beak in your finger it's coming out the other side in a fountain of blood and swear words and next thing you know the birds loose...pooping on the oriental rug while laughing hysterically at you and you've just spent $20.00 on a colorful stylish Lycra band aide.
And that was just my first try at it...bet ya can't wait to hear what happened the other ten times before I finally gave up. I'll give you a hint, it involves screaming (me) dive bombing and Ariel attacks (the evil parrot)and loud screaming for help that woke every neighbor in a five mile radius (also the evil parrot, great idea to teach her to say "help" huh Jason?)
The moral is buy a steam cleaner or a cat, not a diaper.
"Also in 1983, during a trial about his refusal to disclose the source of the John DeLorean surveillance tapes potentially embarrassing to the FBI, he wore an American flag as a diaper and was subsequently jailed for six months for desecration of the flag.[22][23] In the videos, when arresting DeLorean, the FBI is shown threatening him by in effect asking him whether he would rather defend himself or have "his daughter's head smashed in."[24]"
Shouldn't that be defecation of the flag?
Isn't the correct term "droppings" rather than "feces"?
And yes, there is a difference between the two, owing to the fact that birds do not have an anus, but a cloaca instead.
Bon appêtit!
That is without a doubt one of the funniest things I have ever seen! It's too good to be true!
of course, there was that batty woman who designed a way for her cat to hold a spoon while eating, too.
Yet another instance of 'just because it's been invented doesn't make it a good idea'.
I had a friend who trained his parakeet/budgie to do his business in a bowl while free-flying around the house (it was a crystal bowl, no less...dedicated to that single use, by the way)
FYI nobody should ever have a bird as a pet, at least not anything bigger than a cockatiel. They're wild animals, and unless you're willing to devote your whole life to them they'll probably be unhappy and develop a behavioral problem like aggression, screaming, or feather-plucking that will make you miserable too. IRl no bird would ever actually put up with this bullshit device.
My neighbor's aunt keeps chickens as helper birds for autistic children, and as a result they are "house chickens" instead of cooped up in the back yard. So she diapers up her chickens, thought not with an American Flag. Google Chicken Diaper: http://is.gd/fGGQ and see how many people dress up those little chicken tushies.
Hey somebody should tell Brownlee about this.
Changing diapers is one task I've successfully avoided for the various babies in my life. I'll be damned if I start doing it for a bird.
Funny things are always funnier when there's ragtime music playing.
I wonder if Larry Flynt got the American flag diaper for his bird.
I haven't had birds for 9 years and I STILL find odd bits of bird poop on my stuff. Considering the scars that they gave me just for the hell of it, I definitely wouldn't give them a reason like diapering.
Unless maybe the GOP had a flag.
how are the duckies?
the city of fullerton needs to buy these in bulk to solve our pigeon problem once and for all!
Seems like a hot area - there are quite a few patents in the field: http://www.google.com/patents?id=T0wPAAAAEBAJ&dq=2882858
@ TAKUAN:
I went back to the animal rescue facility once after we turned over the ducklings. They don't allow people in the areas with the animals but they took a picture for me. I've added it to Charlie and Daphne's Flickr photoset here:
Charlie and Daphne at the Howell Nature Center animal rescue facility.
Looks like they could use some diapers in there.
The ducks were doing well and were to be released into the wild on schedule when they were old enough.
This holiday season we expanded the charities budget to include another donation for the Howell Nature Center.
well done Ross, well done.
Dare I inquire as to the grand steampunk amp of Bankruptian proportions?
You didn't hear the explosion? I guess most people took it for a stray artillery round. I'll have a longer explanation later on Untitled.