Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion (Pets)

This is a useful book: it covers toilet training, diet, normal parrot behaviour etc. How to train them out of biting, screaming and so on.At the end of the book is a how-to guide to getting your parrot to do tricks such as shaking hands, playing dead etc. The emphasis is on making "tricks" fun for you and the parrot (I'd already taught mine to play dead by the time I got the book: it's hilarious)There is a large section on raising parrots from the egg, which is useful for anyone breeding.All in all, a good buy

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I have had my African Grey for about a three weeks and have been reading everything I could get my hands on before I brought her home. I really loved this book, but wanted to let folks know that this book is a reprint of the book by the same author titled "The Pleasures of Their Company: An Owner's Guide to Parrot Training [Hardcover]. Don't make the same mistake I made and order both.

As you can see in the pictures that I put here, on page 62 she says to cut the parrots swings and keep them that way, that is unacceptable!as they are birds, you're not getting a cat or a dog or something else that has no ability to fly, it seems quite unfair to get a bird that flys and make it so it can't fly!For a book or an author of a book to endorse that is just cruel... an uneducated..I'm not saying that having the wings cut is cruel per se depending on the circumstances, but to just cut them because and then keeping them cut that way just because. It is so bizarre and unfair to the bird.. why not adopt a different animal rather than getting a bird if you don't want to fly!On top of that at the bottom of the page, she says do not under any circumstances allow your parrot on the floor... well that is again rather not good of her to assume that it is unsafe for the bird and under no circumstances should be allowed on the floor..?Idk...But the last one that I read was really a killer that says don't let your parrots have seeds its high in fat and has virtually no food value and is the equivalent of letting your children grow up on soft drinks and Fries seriously irreversible liver damage and early death results from exclusive seed diet, does she not get that she wrote in the end there exclusive seed diet...??Smh..It is not bad for a bird to have seeds, it is bad for a bird to only have seeds in their diet. Two very different things!!I don't know how much knowledge she actually has, but I don't think she should have written the book just going off of those things, because she's spreading false information to new bird owners and potentially there listening to her not knowing any better, it makes me upset for their poor Birds, birds can actually get nutrition deficiency without these especially certain breeds, so for her to be so against it.. again with the wings if cut they can get muscle atrophy which means even when their wings grow back they will not be able to fly perhaps ever just going off of her advice in this book...I would not recommend this book to anyone that doesn't already know what they're doing and then only as a different view point to see.. but as a complete guide or as a new parrot owner I'd say it's a waste of time an money.. as well as bad information.I'm very disappointed and will be sending it back.

From the introduction given to this book, you get the impression that the author will spend at least some time addressing the peculiarities of the great budgerigar. I was greatly disappointed. Aside from a passing reference that budgies are hardier than some parrot species and that they can indeed learn to talk (both painfully obvious to any budgie owner), there is nothing at all. It is pretty obvious that she has never owned one. The author makes the assumption that, because budgies are parrots, they must be the same as every other kind of parrot that she has owned. And that they are not! This book is filled with misinformation that is thoroughly and completely refuted in other books written specifically for these little birds. For the budgie owner there is no reason at all to buy this book.For owners of other times of parrots, I would consider looking elsewhere. The book is filled to the brim with preachy, top-of-the-soapbox lectures that are uninteresting, redundant, and obnoxious. If you actually made it through the first few chapters, which outlined in detail what a bad person you are for wanting to own a parrot in the first place, to the chapter where training is actually addressed, you might be disappointed to learn that it consists of only getting your bird to come to your hand from the t-stand, from inside and from on top of the cage (my budgie could do that after about a day!). Want to know the secret of getting your bird to talk? Just repeat the same word to it twice a day for ten minutes.All of the essential information could be put on a simple print out of a few pages, and I would be greatly surprised if you couldn't find it after a few minutes searching on the internet.

Good information. Cant wait to finish it

Lot's of insights as to what and how parrots think and act. I believe it's never enough to read, reflect upon and work with your bird... A lifetime experience...

I recommend this book to anyone owned by a bird. Very informative.

I’m still reading this but I love how it’s been written. It uses personal experience and not just someone re writing another persons thesis.It has helped me to think in different approaches to training and to accept that if my bird doesn’t take to training then so be it.

Just what was needed for a new parrot to the household

Loved the fast delivery & packaging, great book, certainly useful and great for helping me tame my bird, thanks so much

THIS IS A VALUABLE BOOK IN MY VAST COLLECTIONPARROTS FOR DUMMIES IS A 'MUST HAVE' BUT THIS ONE REALLY IS THERE WITH YOU FOR DAILY EXPERIENCES & ACTIVITIES..I THINK THE WORD 'TRAINING' MIGHT SERVE TO LIMIT INTEREST WHILST THE SUB TITLE ( a guide to taiming & gentling your avian companion) IS MORE FITTING... SOME MAY THINK THE BOOK IS ALL ABOUT TRAINING TRICKS LOOKING AT THE MAIN TITLE.. I SEE THE BOOK AS A TOOL TO ASSIST YOU 'RAISE' YOUR BIRD, WHATEVER HIS AGE, AND HELP HIM/HER UNDERSTAND WHAT WE EXPECT FROM THEM IN ORDER TO FIT IN WITH OUR WORLDS. THAT SAID, I FIND THE BOOK VERY SYMPATHETIC TO THE NEEDS OF OUR BIRDS AND THOSE NEEDS ARE AT THE FOREFRONT.IF YOU ARE CONSIDERING GETTING A PARROT - THIS BOOK WILL GIVE YOU A REALISTIC INSIGHT INTO WHAT TO EXPECT & HOW TO DEAL WITH SITUATIONS WHILST ADDING HUMOUR WHICH SERVES TO HELP THE LESSONS STAY WITH YOU UNTIL NEEDED.IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A BIRD THE BOOK IS LIKE HAVING AN INFORMED FRIEND SHARE EXPERIENCES WHILST OFFERING SOLUTIONS... YOU'LL DEFINITELY LAUGH AT THE SITUATIONS WHICH MIRROR YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES WITH YOUR OWN LITTLE SWEETHEART (BITTLE LUGGER)REGARDING THE TRICK TRAINING..WHEN MY BIRD CAME TO ME HE WAS A RESCUE AND THE THOUGHT OF TRAINING TRICKS WAS ABHORANT TO ME.. UNTIL I REALISED HOW HE LOVES TO LEARN NEW TRICKS/BEHAVIOURS AND HOW INCORPORATING TRICKS INTO EVERY DAY ACTIVITIES CAN BE BOTH HELPFUL AND EVEN LIFESAVING. e.g. I TAUGHT HIM TO KEEP A GRIP ON MY ARM WHEN HE IS SUDDENLY PANICKED - DUE TO HIS SHEER SIZE WHEN HE TOOK FLIGHT IT WAS PANDEMONIUM - NOW ALTHOUGH HIS HUGE WINGS GO INTO FLIGHT MODE HE KEEPS GRIP ON MY ARM AND STAYS SAFE WHILE I REASSURE HIM.ENOUGH RAMBLING THE BOOK'S GOODJAN N CHEEKS

Excellent book. Helped me learn my sky monk parrot to fly to me., and have him come off the top of his cage. I know need to try something new with him..