Does everyone else feel the new energy about Patty?! Patty still struggles with: Pulling the treat away when it's in sight and in reach of the bird Using luring over training/teaching  Backing up for flights at the wrong time (do this when the bird is about to take off, before the bird takes off or when the bird just takes off but NEVER when t...

Everyone involved needed this session to fill their souls. Morgan included. Sometimes the shorter sessions make it easier to squeeze more positivity into them, and leave the bird and person wanting more next time.  Patty's lessons:  1. Hold foot immediately when Morgan steps up (thumb immediately down on foot.) this makes Morgan feel more se...

When a bird is handicapped in some way, we tend to "baby" it. Treat it differently then we would another bird. And sometimes this is necessary (different types of perching for specific injuries, softer foods for beak deformities, etc.) but most of the time, it is not necessary and we are only making things harder on the bird to be a bird.  Such...

Reminder: Morgan is a 7 year old camelot macaw with a foot defect she was hatched with. To catch up with Morgan's story, please click here.  Lessons from this video: Always end the session on a positive note and while the enthusiasm is still high!  Crashing is part of the learning process - just like a toddler looks to its parents for how to re...

I literally use my own blog articles as a reminder and a guide to my next choices in my training with Morgan. Although Patty, her owner, is a parrot health and nutrition guru, she is not a trainer and so I will be training them both. I find this much easier to do if Patty can be part of the process, which has been part of my hope all along. This...

It feels like weeks have gone by to me, but its just been day by day... so day 12 got its own video.  There are numerous reasons to take breaks from formal training. I was just in a funk that happened to coincide with when I thought Morgan might need a physical break from working muscles that have not been worked on a consistent basis in the pas...