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The Unnatural Life Is Natural For A Captive Parrot

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Taking your parrot for a walk is great for him and you.

 

Let me put it right out there: Owning parrots isn’t natural. What else are we supposed to do with parrots who could never survive in the wild, other than place them in loving homes that strive to meet their unique needs? That’s the best place for these amazing animals.

We owners put a lot of time into caring for our babies, and sometimes this involves making choices that would be unnatural for a ...

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Determining Where to Start with Rescued and Re-Homed Pet Birds

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Rescuing or re-homing a parrot comes with unique challenges.

 

When we first bring home a rescued or re-homed parrot, we need to be aware that it isn’t like bringing a fresh new baby bird in. Every one of these beautiful animals – even a young one – can be expected to be unsettled and nervous upon reaching a new environment, but an adopted pet is more likely to suffer from depression, potential aggression, and fear issues, including anxiety. There may also be health issues, ...

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Using Your Energy When Working with Birds

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Energy is very important to parrots and how they react to us. Our birds can sense our every mood change, reading both your body language and the way you look to them in UV. They can perceive many more colours than we can, and – as the Island Parrot Sanctuary once put it to me – because of that, they know you better than you know yourself. They can see your mood.

One of the things I try and do with new or ...

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4 Big Ways I Desensitized My Cockatoo

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I really don’t like the word “desensitizing”, it sounds so…insensitive. It is an appropriate term, however, and sometimes necessary. If you’ve read some of my recent posts, you know that Theo, my goffins cockatoo,  is often overwhelmed by new things, sometimes by old things, and that I have been concerned about how she would handle the changes in Florida.  In no particular order, these are some of the bigger concerns I had and how she actually responded to them:

1) the chaos of packing up the house – didn’t ...

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Training Parrots Tricks in 2 Minutes!

Yes, I really did train my cockatoo, Bondi, how to wave in 2 minutes! And in a hotel room in Moab, Utah while on the road! It was pretty cute and I thought I’d have a harder time with it than I did because she knows so many things (ie: she shakes with her left foot, targets with her right and rolls over plus much more!)

But she got it immediately.

The more you train your bird, the faster they will catch on to the next ...

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