African Grey Training:

Training Your African Grey Parrot

If I had a dollar for every time someone came to me and told me that they know all about African Grey care, and that they don't need advice on African grey training...

I always have to force myself to not laugh. I don't mean to be cocky here but let me explain something to you, that I think is extremely important if you are looking to purchase, or already own an African Grey... Caring for your African Grey is VERY important, in fact it's critically important and vital to owning a happy African Grey Parrot.  Proper African Grey care means you change their water daily, feed fresh fruits and veggies, give him plenty of toys and let him play in a stimulating environment.

Again, this is all great African Grey care... but you can be an expert in caring for your African grey, and yet when his hormones start to change when he becomes of breeding age, you'll be up a creek without a paddle if you haven't bothered to learn anything about African Grey training.

Training Your African Grey Parrot training means teaching your Grey a language, and helping it discover a way to communicate with you.  It's very much like dealing with a two year old.  Parrot's have been likened to have the same mental capabilities of a 2 year old, and if you're a parrot, you know what the terrible two's means. 

In my opinion parrot's are the same as a two year old toddler, as far as the reasons they act out... because of a lack of ability to communicate their wants needs and desires.  and when a child can't express their wants, needs and desires quickly effectively, they throw a tantrum.

And that's what African Grey parrot training aims to do... give your Grey a language to communicate his needs and desires in, that you can understand, causing him to not lash out in frustration.

So Here's How To Start An African Grey Training Program...

First you'll want to click on this link and sign up for my free African Grey Parrot Training Videos where you'll learn how I took one of my clients parrots, that I'd never met, seen, or trained, and taught him how to do his first trick in three 15 minute training sessions! And how me training that parrot, transformed it's behavior!

The reason that you want to train your Grey to do tricks is simple, and I liken it to the story of Helen Keller; the woman who was born blind, deaf, and mute, and had no idea how to communicate to her family and friends, what was on her mind.

Your African Grey is like Helen Keller, in the sense that it has no idea how to communicate with you it's needs, wants, and desires.  But if you would spend some time teaching your Grey how to learn behaviors ie. tricks...

... then teaching him other things, like to not bite you, step up nicely, or to stop screaming, become a MUCH easier part of your African Grey's Training, and learning process.

All in all he'll be much less frustrated with you, and when he gets frustrated in the future with you, on a behavior that you haven't taught him to do yet, he'll be more likely to willingly have you show him how to appropriately do the behavior, versus just biting you out of frustration.