by other feral cats, and he was the only cat I had who posed any kind of threat to the parrot (who sometimes bullied the cats I'd had earlier). So the parrot went from free-flying most of the day to shut in his cage if the cat wasn't shut in a bedroom. But after dinner, when the parrot liked to be out to sample human food (and then fling it everywhere; parrots are so messy), I'd let the kitty out, often taking some canned food he especially liked on a saucer back to whichever bedroom he'd been shut in, and as the kitty would devour that, the parrot would scurry down my arm from my shoulder to watch more closely, then cock his head and look at me and gabble excitedly about how wonderful the cat was. At least I think that's what he was saying. He adored that cat. Who looked at him, saw a possible dinner (not that he ever went after the bird when I was carrying him), and sometimes climbed up atop the cage, just under the ceiling. And had to be retrieved since he was afraid to jump back down that far.
But they still coexisted for years. The parrot just couldn't try landing on the cat's tail, as I'd seen him doing with my other cats. Or chasing them off my bed, which he'd also sometimes do, whether running across the comforter at them, beak open, or dive bombing them.
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