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Parrots Going Back To School: Parrot Training

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CHRISTIE  WAGNER-STARLEY

CHRISTIE WAGNER-STARLEY

Never let a Bird out of his cage until you have established a rapport with him. Without rapport he is in danger because if something pops up in your environment that’s dangerous for him, you can’t even rescue him because he’ll be flying away in fright from you. Establishing trust in a Bird is not an overnight situation. You should first, several times a day, sit beside your caged Bird and speak to him in a soft voice. Don’t sit too close as that will scare him. Get closer day by day. Watch his body language to see how he tolerates it. Then after a few days of speaking to him, drop a treat through the bars into his food cup (organic only; you don’t want carcinogenic pesticides on it as they’ll harm the Bird more and faster even than it will harm you). It could be a bit of banana, apple, apricot, etc. Do NOT include the seed as he could choke on it. After a few days of this, the Bird will associate you with a pleasant experience. Next try to pet him once or twice—head scratch, for example—through the bars then STOP. Don’t rush him. Repeat it the next few days. A good sign will be if the Bird will come close to you in his cage and offer his head to be scratched. The next few days open the cage and don’t touch the Bird, but place a favorite treat into his bowl. After a few days of that open the cage door and directly offer him a treat from your hand. After a few days of that when you can tell he’s comfortable with that, put your finger in front of his little chest and wait for him to step onto it. That’s how you do it. Slowly, carefully. And PLEASE, always monitor your Bird when he’s out of the cage. Never let him be unsupervised. Tragedies take but a second to happen. Don’t let him out if you’re cooking or if the stovetop is still hot. Make sure the windows aren’t open if there’s no screen on them. Make sure to NEVER EVER have a fan on. Rotating blades, like airplane propellers, can be invisible. Need I say more/ And make sure people don’t come rushing in and out of the front door as Birds can fly away. Likewise always check on the floor to make sure the Bird is not somewhere on the floor where he can be stepped on. And don’t allow children or anyone to run around slamming doors inside the house—there have been horrible mutilations and deaths because of that. Just think ahead. Guard you Bird as if he were a human infant.

Never let a Bird out of his cage until you have established a rapport with him. Without rapport he is in danger because if something pops up in your environment that’s dangerous for him, you can’t even rescue him because he’ll be flying away in fright from you. Establishing trust in a Bird is not an overnight situation. You should first, several times a day, sit beside your caged Bird and speak to him in a soft voice. Don’t sit too close as that will scare him. Get closer day by day. Watch his body language to see how he tolerates it. Then after a few days of speaking to him, drop a treat through the bars into his food cup (organic only; you don’t want carcinogenic pesticides on it as they’ll harm the Bird more and faster even than it will harm you). It could be a bit of banana, apple, apricot, etc. Do NOT include the seed as he could choke on it. After a few days of this, the Bird will associate you with a pleasant experience. Next try to pet him once or twice—head scratch, for example—through the bars then STOP. Don’t rush him. Repeat it the next few days. A good sign will be if the Bird will come close to you in his cage and offer his head to be scratched. The next few days open the cage and don’t touch the Bird, but place a favorite treat into his bowl. After a few days of that open the cage door and directly offer him a treat from your hand. After a few days of that when you can tell he’s comfortable with that, put your finger in front of his little chest and wait for him to step onto it. That’s how you do it. Slowly, carefully. And PLEASE, always monitor your Bird when he’s out of the cage. Never let him be unsupervised. Tragedies take but a second to happen. Don’t let him out if you’re cooking or if the stovetop is still hot. Make sure the windows aren’t open if there’s no screen on them. Make sure to NEVER EVER have a fan on. Rotating blades, like airplane propellers, can be invisible. Need I say more/ And make sure people don’t come rushing in and out of the front door as Birds can fly away. Likewise always check on the floor to make sure the Bird is not somewhere on the floor where he can be stepped on. And don’t allow children or anyone to run around slamming doors inside the house—there have been horrible mutilations and deaths because of that. Just think ahead. Guard you Bird as if he were a human infant.

Anna Jo Draper

Anna Jo Draper

We adopted a Peach face lovebird and found out he loves to chew. Not just his toys but any lose paper, cords and even the Curtains. We cant pick him up, he is hand shy. the only time he is on us is if he jumps/fly’s on to our head. If we try to pick him up he fly’s away or try’s to bite. Is there anything I can do to correct his behavior but also build up a relationship with him to the point where he trusts us and lets up hold him?

We adopted a Peach face lovebird and found out he loves to chew. Not just his toys but any lose paper, cords and even the Curtains. We cant pick him up, he is hand shy. the only time he is on us is if he jumps/fly’s on to our head. If we try to pick him up he fly’s away or try’s to bite. Is there anything I can do to correct his behavior but also build up a relationship with him to the point where he trusts us and lets up hold him?

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