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Unfortunately, I have not had good luck with a corgi and a parrot... I had a maximillion pionus parrot who was used to being out of his cage a few hours a day, minimally. I got Dillon as a puppy, and while he was fine with my cats ( likes to chase them but they were large enough to not be hurt by him - and since then he listens to me when i ask him to stop). However, the bird was a different story, he was completely obsessed with "catching" the bird... He would leap up and snap towards the bird when he was out of his cage and he was constantly trying to get at the bird , even when he was in his cage. I feared for the birds life and while I did spend 8 months working with the two of them to get them to coexist, i couldnt make it happen, and i didnt trust the corgi near the bird. I had to move the bird cage to a separate room that the dog couldnt go into , and i had the most miserable parrot, he HATED the new spot, he would pout on top of his cage for hours. I would try to go into the room as often as possible but he was no longer in the family room where we lived 80% of the time..so he was miserable.. I spent a lot of time and effort working with them... and I finally had to rehome the bird to a woman who he loved! she was a friend of mine and the only other person that my bird loved and she had no dogs, no cats, and was a bird person who could give him the kind of attention and time he wanted and needed... In the end we know we made the right decision ( nothing made that more clear than when i went to see how he was doing with his new family and he was talking away and dancing and having such a fun time, not pouting on his perch as he was doing at my house!
I think in MOST cases, it comes down to training of the dog. my biggest issue was that dillon wanted to play with him by snapping at him, and i was worried that one bite and he could have killed the bird and that was the determining factor for why we didnt keep on working on it. Dillon loves kids of all ages, he is fine with other dogs, cats, but i just wouldn't ever trust him with birds, as he has some fascination/obsession with them... he has never bitten anyone or any other animals so i dont understand where this snapping behavior came from ...
Gus ( my other corgi) on the other hand has never shown any obsessive behaviors towards cats, birds or anything else...he loves everyone and every thing - I just think different dogs have different personalities - some will be fine with birds, some might not be...
Emilie
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