[Appleeaters1250]

I have two pacific parrotlets named Lucy and Dezi. I also have two cats who like to hunt for birds and could mistake our birds for prey. Luckily they haven’t, but I have to separate each cat from each other and from the birds, while giving attention to all my pets, which I find so hard to do! Do you guys have any tips I could try so I can keep all pets safe while giving them all their emotional and physical needs while keeping them. One cat lives upstairs, the other cat lives in my brother’s room downstairs, while the birds live in our living room. We can’t keep them all together, because we have one very antisocial cat who is so mean to birds and other cats.

 

[Rubydoo252]

Hi and welcome to the forum!
Cats and birds are a tough mix. When Tumi was young, I briefly roomed in a house with a roommate that had two cats (there were several other roommates in the house as well). We worked it out so that the cats were always in her room during the day, with Tumi being allowed in the main living areas. At night, Tumi would go to bed in a cage in my room, and she was free to let the cats out of her room. Since parrotlets need 12 hours of sleep every night, that was a fair tradeoff. However, this really took coordination and trust between the two of us. Even though they lived in the same house, there was NEVER a single time that there wasn't a physical barrier between the two cats and Tumi. Cats should never be trusted to not hunt birds - cats hunt, and it is unfair to ask them to do anything less. The secret to success that my roommate and I found was that cats are pretty nocturnal, so they were fine with only getting the house at night. You really have to trust the people in charge of the cats, however, because your birds lives do depend on it. Tumi has never lived in a single room of the house any more than I live in a single room of my place - he is part of my flock, and go where I go (with safety always considered). But he loves sleeping in my bedroom to this day in his sleeping cage, even though we live alone.