Does a sitter come to my house, or does my parrot come to you?
Parrot boarding and parrot sitting in Toronto
Your parrot stays with us for the trip. Nobody visits your house, and if the drive is the hard part, our shuttle does it for you — booked well ahead with your stay.
Your parrot comes to us. We do not do in-home visits — nobody lets themselves into your house while you are away — and if driving is hard, the avian shuttle, booked well ahead with your stay, collects and returns your bird across the GTA for a fee quoted on the distance.
🏠A sitter visits your home✕ Not what we doSomebody comes in once or twice a day to feed, water and check on your bird, and it is on its own between visits.
🦜Your bird comes to us What we doIt stays in our aviary for the whole trip, with people in the building every day and other birds around it. This is what we do.
🚐We collect and return it What we doThe same stay, with the driving taken off you. The avian shuttle covers the GTA, is booked on the portal well in advance and confirmed with you ahead of the day, and is quoted separately by the distance to you.
The shuttle is booked on the client portal with your stay, well in advance, and confirmed with you ahead of the day. It is quoted separately from the stay, by the distance to you. Book the avian shuttle.
For large macaws, please contact us first. These 8 species have their own page because those are the ones we have enough of our own data on to write something true about; a bird that is not on the list above is not a bird we do not take.
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Directions4578 Gatineau Ave, Mississauga
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🛣️ Gardiner Expressway · 13.9 km🛣️ Queen Elizabeth Way · 4.3 km
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🐦Via BST to PearsonDrop your parrot off on the way+12 min
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📍From TorontoStraight to Pearson 35 min · via BST 47 min
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What every parrot's stay includes
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Daily free-flight time
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Out of the cage between 9am and 7pm — about 4–6 hours a day, depending on how your bird gets on with the others.
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Play & one-on-one time
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Supervised time in an enriched room with a playstand and play fountain. Cages sit inside the flock, never off on their own.
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Daily photos & videos
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Photos and video of your own bird every day in the BST Mobile App, with an email too. If anything changes you hear from us straight away, not at pick-up.
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Fresh food daily
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Food is changed every day, and the fresh fruit and veg you send are given daily. If you would rather not send food, our seed and pellet mix is $2 per day.
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Fresh water, all day
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Fresh filtered water, kept fresh all day — every bird here thinks pellet soup is a delicacy.
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A clean cage
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Fresh tray liners and a tidy cage, so your bird’s home away from home stays clean and comfortable.
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Fresh chop
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Fresh daily chop is an optional extra for boarding guests — add it when you book and it is served every day of the stay.
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Grooming during the stay
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Ask for a nail, wing or beak trim on the booking form and it is done during the stay, so nobody makes a separate trip.
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Watched Around the Clock
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Cameras on the birds even when we are not in the room. Temperature and humidity monitored; air HEPA-filtered.
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Parrot Owners Ask Us
Do you come to my house to look after my parrot?
No. Every stay happens here, at our house in Mississauga — nobody lets themselves into your home while you are away. If the drive is the problem rather than the arrangement, the avian shuttle will collect your parrot and bring it back; it is booked on the client portal with your stay, well in advance, confirmed with you ahead of the day, and quoted separately from the stay, by the distance to you.
Will my parrot be in with other parrots?
It has its own cage and never shares one with a bird it does not already live with at home. Out of the cage it is kept away from birds that could hurt it — a parrotlet does not share floor time with a large parrot, which is for the parrotlet's benefit rather than the other bird's. Bonded pairs stay together throughout.
My parrot only likes me, and it bites everyone else. Is that a problem?
No, and it is more common than you would think. A bird does not have to be handled to be fed, watered, cleaned for and given time out of its cage, and nobody here will force it. Tell us on the registration form so that the first person to open the cage already knows.
Will my parrot scream the whole time it is there?
Conures are the species we see most of, and they usually settle within about 48 hours, with the first day the loudest. Most parrots follow the same shape. It helps that yours is rarely the only one of its kind in the house.
Do you board the big parrots — greys, amazons, macaws?
Birds of every size, from finches and budgies up to African greys, amazons, eclectus and cockatoos. For large macaws, please contact us first.
Can I board my parrot for just one day?
Yes. There is no minimum stay and a single day is a normal booking, priced the same as any other day. If you want the details of how a day works, that is on the bird daycare page.
