Updates and Musings About Life with Parrots
Barbara Heidenreich, author of The Parrot Problem Solver and noted parrot trainer for many years, has a blog. I started this blog because there seemed to be a real dearth of high-quality blogs about parrots (that weren’t just thinly disguised fronts for peddling expensive and questionable parrot training products). Sure, lots of people mentioned their…
Read More...In the last couple of weeks Stewie has had a few flight feathers grow back in. He was clipped when I got him last summer and he’s been to the vet for a follow-up trim because one was growing in really uneven. But this time around I’ve been wrestling with the decision whether to keep…
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I found a cute little toy store in Clarendon with a completely unusable Web interface, but a great brick-and-mortar store. As soon as I walked by the Kinder Haus I knew I had to go in (and my companion knew it was for Stewie, no foolin’ him) and I found lots of great, high-quality (German-made)…
Read More...I often hear it said that a lot of parrot behavior problems stem from the bird thinking it is “dominant” to the humans, and that the way to control the parrot is to reestablish the person’s flock leader position. But research has shown that not only is it not important to establish “dominance” with birds,…
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Stewie got tired of the “put the ball in the cup trick”… not sure why, but he just doesn’t want to do it anymore. Here’s a picture of him when he was still eager to do it: We’ve been working on “put the ring on the peg” but this one has been difficult. To tell…
Read More...After a couple of failed approaches, we’re back on track with learning to retrieve. I was having trouble getting Stewie to hold on to a toy I handed him (he was just beaking it) and then we’d both get frustrated when it didn’t result in treats. What ended up working for us is for me…
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