» Parrot Training http://www.birdtricks.com/blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:47:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 “Old Bird New Tricks” http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/old-bird-new-tricks/ http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/old-bird-new-tricks/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:50:44 +0000 Jamieleigh http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=3737 So many people have heard the old saying, "can't teach an old dog new tricks" and assume it applies to older parrots too. But I have news for you - it doesn't! No parrot is ever "too old" to learn new tricks. In fact, old parrots is where BirdTricks.com was founded with Tiko (pictured above) a 15 year old blue and gold macaw and Linus, a 10 year old umbrella cockatoo. Tiko had been a trophy pet all his life, and never handled since the age of 2. His owners were people who ...

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So many people have heard the old saying, “can’t teach an old dog new tricks” and assume it applies to older parrots too. But I have news for you – it doesn’t!

No parrot is ever “too old” to learn new tricks.

In fact, old parrots is where BirdTricks.com was founded with Tiko (pictured above) a 15 year old blue and gold macaw and Linus, a 10 year old umbrella cockatoo. Tiko had been a trophy pet all his life, and never handled since the age of 2. His owners were people who didn’t know better… Chet and Dave’s parents, and one day when the two brothers thought about making a magic parrot video to incorporate the birds into Dave’s magic act, they found something very cool…

When they began training and mentally stimulating these birds, the birds became nicer. They began to become handle-able and social.

And that is why we here at BirdTricks.com recommend trick training SO much. We like to think we beat it into your heads to do it. And this is just one reason of many.

If you have the courses, you will find Tiko on the cover of Volume 2 and Linus on the cover of Volume 1. Along with Chet and Dave. They use those birds in all the demonstrations to show you real, untamed birds going through the same training you’re about to endure. Just to prove to you how fast and easy it can be. You see the successes, you see the failures and everything in between so you learn from everything they did.

So when you hear someone say an old bird can’t learn new tricks, think again. Our trick training courses are proof they can, not to mention the thousands of testimonials of people having success with their birds too from one year young to 87 years old (yes, a macaw that old was taught how to be “quiet” on cue).

It is NEVER too late to start training your bird.

]]> http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/old-bird-new-tricks/feed/ 0 Taming Training and Tricks – Talk On Cue! #comments Train Your Bird "Using this 'Real Speech' system for only 15 minutes a day, teaches your parrot how to speak more words, phrases and songs than you can ever imagine. Even species that can't talk will whistle your favorite tunes." Click for more »

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]]> /feed/ 0 How Fast Can Your Parrot REALLY Be Trained? http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/how-fast-can-your-parrot-really-be-trained/ http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/how-fast-can-your-parrot-really-be-trained/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:47:31 +0000 Chet http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=3758 How fast can you really train your bird? In many of my training videos I continually show examples of how to train birds to stop biting, or step up in very short periods of time. It is not uncommon for me to be able to get a bird to stop doing bad behavior within 2-3 days. Many of my clients send me comments about how implementing one of my training concepts or strategies fixed their birds problem in less then 15 minutes. On stage at our Total Parrot Transformation seminar I trained ...

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]]> http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/how-fast-can-your-parrot-really-be-trained/feed/ 11 Taming Training and Tricks – Stop Biting! Training Kit #comments Train Your Bird Watch a LIVE video demo of me taming our wild, biting Macaw, "Tiko." (See how I handle "Tiko" as he lunges at me, screaming and biting -- how I lovingly calm him down... and mesmerize him so much that he BEGS me to pet him with my BARE HANDS 5 minutes later!) Click for more »

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]]> /feed/ 0 4 Big Ways I Desensitized My Cockatoo http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/desensitizing-my-goffins-cockatoo-theo/ http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/desensitizing-my-goffins-cockatoo-theo/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:49:46 +0000 Patty http://www.birdtricks.com/blog/?p=3473 I really don't like the word "desensitizing", it sounds so...insensitive. It is an appropriate term, however, and sometimes necessary. If you've read some of my recent posts, you know that Theo, my goffins cockatoo,  is often overwhelmed by new things, sometimes by old things, and that I have been concerned about how she would handle the changes in Florida.  In no particular order, these are some of the bigger concerns I had and how she actually responded to them: 1) the chaos of packing up the house - didn't care....... 2) the actual trip to ...

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