Bomber thank you for this post, I have been in gales of laughter.

We are taking three cats and a dog, but we do have two pocket parrots, and have decided the stress would be just too much for them and so they are going to live with friends. However in your situation I would contact Par Air on parair.co.uk or 01206 330332 they are really helpful. Best of luck.

If they are pocket parrots, you could buy them some Polly Pockets to keep them company eh!

omg, this is the funniest thread i have read in a long time on BE, sorry OP, but like someone said you do need to lighten up and take the serious with the not so serious, there have been some suggestions on here for you, good luck

Good grief! Schroedinger had a menagerie then?

Sometimes he did and sometimes he didn't.

All very quantum.

That makes me think of a fix for the OP's conundrum: all he needs to do is entangle his quantum parrot and then observe at a distance (after the flight) resulting in quantum tele transportation of said parrot.

It might all depend on whether it's strange parrot or one with charm.

Parrots flew wild around Windsor in the UK though, about 30 of them, a few got released by accident years back when the owner died and they just flourished.

Very surreal.

We used to have a large flock in Cheam _ lived in Nonsuch Park!

Pandemonium, innit?

Don't parrots come with Quark, then?

Maybe that is only Austrian and German parrots and other parrots prefer ricotta.

All things come with quarks. Or at least, quarks come with all things. Or summat.

About 23 yrs. ago a friend of mine sponsered her mother ( no other relatives left living in the UK) who wanted to bring her budgie with her. There was a lot of paper work , and the bird needed a check up by the local vet to ensure the bird was healthy before it was allowed to leave the U.K.. There was also a required cage size before she could contact an airline willing to take the bird on board, in the hold , absolutely no possibility of it being taken in the passenger compartment..The bird was taken on the same plane as my friend and her mother. They came from the N.E. of England , initially to Toronto , where they had to take the bird for inspection . Since it had all the required paper work, both from the UK and Canada and was deemed healthy, it was admitted to Canada.

From Toronto, it was placed on another plane to go to Northern Ontario, and was placed in 'quarantine' , in my friend's apartment ( a confined space), where it was visited several times by the authorities to ensure, it was still healthy.

My friend's mother died the following year, but her budgie lived for another five years.

I have taken my cats and dogs in the hold with no ill results . I see no reason for you to be apprehensive.

^ Long time no post, Madame Largo. I hope all is well. I'm afraid though that the OP isn't quite rational about the parrot. She's a particularly irrational bird.

Thank you for remembering. Unfortunately, things have not gone too well. Made a visit to Nc/le to attend my brother's funeral just before Christmas and had to deal with another unfortunate family problem,which makes it impossible for me to spend my last days in the UK as I had hoped. However, I may still consider at least part time in France, My Parisian French is very good