Stop Your Parrot From Screaming For Attention
Barbara has advice on stopping your Parrot screaming. Screaming. Somebody reinforced the heck out of that behaviour.” I said to myself. Misty, a Double-yellow headed Amazon Parrot, lived with me for only a few weeks. She was there so that I could put some of her vocal behaviours on cue…. However it quickly became apparent she […]
Harness Training Your Parrot
Barbara has advice on harness training your Parrot. For those of you who have been to my seminars and seen video clips of Parrots sitting for blood draws and perched patiently while they receive an injection, you no doubt realized those are behaviours that were trained with tiny, tiny approximations and took some time to […]
Scale Training Your Parrot By Barbara Heidenreich
Barbara Heidenreich explains how to do scale training. Ideally, you want to weigh your bird about once a week. This will give you a very good idea of what is normal for your Parrot. If your bird loses or gains a lot of weight this can be a signal to you that something may be […]
How To Address Fear In Parrots
Here is how to address fear in Parrots. Example Have you ever been really scared? Perhaps it was a moment when you did not have control. For example as a passenger on a turbulent plane ride, or you realized someone was targeting you to pick your pocket, or you were stuck in a big crowd […]
Medicating Your Parrot
Barbara Heidenreich has advice on medicating your Parrot. I have an older blue-fronted Amazon Parrot. She is at least 25 years old. Since she was an adult when she came into my life she is likely quite a bit older than that. Her body is certainly showing evidence of aging. Arthritis She was diagnosed with arthritis […]
Petting Your Parrot
Barbara Heidenreich has advice on petting your Parrot. People often warn of the dangers of petting your Parrot. Usually they are referring to the kind of touching that leads your Parrot to believe you two would make lovely children together. This might include stroking under your Parrot’s wings or near the base of his tail. This […]
Managing Mess in Parrots
Barbara Heidenreich explains how to manage mess in Parrots. Zookeeper Once a zookeeper, always a zookeeper. I admit I was trained well. When I started my career in zoos back in 1990 I worked for the best kind of boss a newbie could have….a stickler for cleanliness and exceptional animal care. The standards were high […]
Parrots Who Can’t Wait To Do As You Ask
Barbara Heidenreich explains what to do if your Parrot can’t wait to do as you ask. Joker the Yellow-naped Amazon Parrot made me proud today. As mentioned in an earlier blog, both Joker and Jackson the Blue-throated Macaw showed some hesitancy in returning to their cages after a few hours spent outside their cages training […]
Training a Parrot to Love a Towel
Barbara Heidenreich explains how to teach your Parrot to love a towel. How much do I love this behaviour? Let me count the ways. Training a Parrot to look forward to being wrapped in a towel has become one of my favourite behaviours to train. I think in part because I know most Parrots at […]
The Parrot Training Diet? by Barbara Heidenreich
Find out more about the Parrot training diet. I decided to write about this topic because people who have signed up for my mailing list automatically get sent a series of three video clips in which I demonstrate how I trained my Amazon Parrot to let me trim his nails. Questions Some of the questions I keep getting are […]