A free-roaming parrot meets visitors on its own territory, with strong opinions, a powerful beak, and no way to know which guest is nervous, which is grabby, and which is about to open a window. Written house rules solve that uncertainty in advance. The written set that follows is the whole set, and every visitor learns the same five rules, in the same form, before the bird comes out.
Feeding Only From the Treat Pot
Visitors may offer food only from the treat pot you provide, and nothing else, however harmless a snack from their plate looks to them. Parrots are quick to beg and quicker to swallow, and a guest cannot judge which foods are safe for a bird, which are seasoned, and which are fine for people and wrong for parrots. The treat pot also controls quantity, because five visitors each offering one small treat can add up to a meal the bird never needed. If a visitor wants to interact, hand them the pot and show them how to offer a piece calmly at the perch or the stand, and let that be the interaction.
No Fingers to the Beak, and No Forced Pick-Up
Explain plainly that fingers do not go to the beak, for treats, strokes, or games. A parrot explores with its beak, tests pressure with it, and can bite a finger it was only investigating, and a guest who has been warned cannot misread that bite as the bird turning nasty. The same respect governs handling: nobody picks the parrot up unless the bird chooses to step up, and a bird that moves away, leans away, or stays put has given its answer. Chasing, toweling, or scooping up a reluctant parrot for a photograph teaches it that visitors predict being grabbed, and the next visit starts with a bird already braced to defend itself.
Door and Window Checks Before the Bird Is Out
Before the parrot leaves its cage or room, doors and windows on its flight path get checked and closed, and during the visit nobody opens an outside door without saying so first and confirming where the bird is. Escapes during visits often happen in ordinary moments: a guest arriving with bags, someone stepping out for air, a window opened because the room felt warm. The check is a habit, not a one-time inspection at the start, because a room that was safe at three o'clock may have an open window by four. Assign the checking to the household rather than to guests, since visitors cannot know which internal doors matter and which windows the bird can reach.
No Sprays or Candles Around the Bird
Visitors do not use sprays around the bird, including hair products, room sprays, and cleaning sprays, and nobody lights candles in the rooms the bird uses. Guests often apply these things without thinking, in a bathroom or hallway the bird later flies through, so the rule needs saying out loud rather than assuming it is obvious. A visitor who needs to use a spray product can step well away from the bird's rooms and let the air clear before the bird is anywhere near that space. Put the rule in the written set, not in a side conversation, because the visitor who arrives later, while you are busy, will only ever see the written version.
One Written Set for Everyone
Rules kept in the owner's head change shape with every telling, and a visitor who hears a softened version cannot be blamed for breaking the full one. Write the five rules once, keep the wording identical, and share that exact set with household members and visitors alike, in advance where you can and at the door where you cannot.
KinsLe keeps the same guidance in front of guests, since the Family Sharing copy stays visible to the whole household.