My First Breakthrough with Rasta the Alexandrine Parakeet – Putting Happy on Cue

Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Athol, ID
Pictured with: Alexandrine parakeet “Rasta”

With our parrot stunt show ParrotFX finally ready for stage, and the photoshoot concluded for it (as well as the training) I have finally had the mental space for Rasta full-time. Today is the first day that Dave and I haven’t been completely and entirely CONSUMED with something ParrotFX-related. It feels freeing. Now, we have about 7 or less days to produce our magic show for Silverwood Theme Park and I sit in ...

 

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Rasta the Alexandrine Parakeet – Where to Start With Terrified Birds

Photo by Jamieleigh
Location: Athol, ID
Shown: Alexandrine Parakeet “Rasta” after a bath 

I’ve had Rasta since 9pm on May 8th and I have to say – he threw everything I thought was going to work with him right out the window.

I prefer working with aggressive birds over terrified birds any day. Why? All you have to do is phase out the aggressive traits and triggers, but with terrified birds you have to work on the bird itself before you can ...

 

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Rasta The Alexandrine Parakeet

In the above video I announce the super exciting news that I’ve decided to take on Rasta the Alexandrine Parakeet from one of our clients featured in one of our episodes on One Day Miracles. A new DVD series we’ve produced where we go into people’s homes to show them how to fix their birds behavioral problems in one day. We had great success with Rasta, however, when we left, they took some steps backwards and I offered to take Rasta to get him back to the point where they can work with him from ...

 

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