"Hi! I have an emergency request"
- Okay
"We are driving to Belfast this evening and need something to transport our Amazon parrot in."
- Oh, well, I'm not sure if we ha...
"And it needs to be very small. Our car is absolutely full of luggage already. We need something very compact. Like a small nest-box or something."
An Amazon parrot is about the size of the popular African Grey, a good twelves inches long or more. A small nest box would not be remotely suitable even for ten seconds.
- Hmm. I don't think we really have anything suitable for that.
"It needs to be very small."
She looks at a parakeet nest box. The parrot would barely fit in there, never mind have space to move.
- That's not really big enough for an Amazon
"Well, something about that size. How about a little budgie cage?"
An Amazon would chew its way through the bars within seconds. And, again, it simply would not be big enough.
- We don't have anything at all suitable.
"Well. What on earth do people use to transport a parrot?"
- They often use a dog-crate or large pet-carrier, similar to something you would use to take a cat to the vets. But bigger.
"Oh. Well. This visit has been pointless."
And off they went.
And I then watched as, before they got in the car, they talked to each other outside - presumably trying to work out some way to vacuum-pack their poor parrot.