Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Shown: Baby sun conure   Through the whole process of losing CJ and trying to deal with the guilt, grief and overall loss of her presence... the breeder, Katherine, has really been there for me fully. She was there to listen to me scream and cry in hysterics seconds after I found CJ lifeless and she ...

It's a pet peeve of mine for people to cue their birds verbally for things like "stepping up" and telling their bird "no". Sometimes, because it's just instinctive to us, even I will end up saying no to my bird about something. But, I try REALLY hard never ever ever to tell my birds "no!" because I feel like since it's almost always said in a ...

Photo by Dave Location: Orlando, FL Sun conure babies "Lily" & "CJ" This is by far the hardest blog entry I've ever had to write, and I hope that it will always be the hardest because I don't know that I could take more than this. God never gives us more than we can handle though, right? He sure pushes that fringe of fear,  as we often call...

Back on tour I less than half-heartedly worked on teaching my galah Bandit to "give kisses". Read and see video of where it was at here.   Photo by Jamieleigh Location: On tour Shown: Galah "Bandit"  Well, since being home and in between creating the BirdTricks Cookbook, I decided I'd give it a go at REALLY teaching this trick. So I spent a day...

Photo by Jamieleigh Location: Orlando, FL Shown: Toco Toucan "Rocko" During the in home January consults it became apparent to talk about how every trainer has a training fault; a weakness. Something they are prone to doing that sabotages their own success. For my husband Dave it's definitely over training. He pushes a bird's threshold which ga...

I've gotta be honest, when the breeder sent us the photos of our baby sun conures we thought it was an old picture... assumed they were much older.  So since caring for feather-less birds is way over my head - I haven't been playing a huge role in their care and have left it up to the those who know what they're doing - like my hubby! However, I...