Posts Tagged ‘bird trainer’
AI & The Future of Animal Training
AI is everywhere at the moment. It’s no longer a subtle presence starting to show up in the background of our everyday lives. It’s in your face whenever you glance at social media and it’s becoming more significant in our workplaces. It’s now even rudely accusing us of stealing chocolate bars at a supermarket checkout.…
Read MoreWhy Birds Bite
Birds bite. Understanding why birds bite, is the first step to stop biting. A close encounter with a bird’s beak at some point, is the one thing I can usually guarantee a bird’s owner. That and a close encounter with bird poop. They are the two things a bird owner should expect. That’s the bad…
Read MoreChicken Training – Chickens as pets!?!?
Chickens are highly trainable and make wonderful pets. Their quirky personalities can liven up any household. You can even teach them to dance! That’s right – chickens in tutus.
Read MoreWhy Name a Bird Training Company “Works for Birds”?!??
Bird Trainer – Melbourne might have been a better name? No I wasn’t drunk name brainstorming when I came up with “Works For Birds”. I really did try to find a name that said: bird behaviourist, bird trainer, even trains chickens, a lot of parrot training, fixes problem behaviours, stops screaming, stops biting, stops plucking.…
Read MoreSurviving A Dysfunctional Christmas
Christmas. It’s here. That wonderful time of the year when my entire extended family descend on my house in one hit. I have a big family. I also seem to attract a range of stray ring-ins. It means a lot of people, a lot of noise, weird looking decorations that might flash and worse than…
Read MoreWhat Does It Mean When My Bird Fluffs Up?
“I have adopted a male Eclectus parrot and I have a question about cuddling and petting. I have been very cautious about it so far because I have read that with their hair like feathers they don’t like to be pet like other birds. However, when he is relaxing with me he seems to want…
Read MoreWhy Not To Feed Wild Birds But How To Safely Attract Them
When you decide to spend your life enslaved to a pet bird, you’re not doing it because you like their ‘chewed-on style’ decorating help. Usually it has something to do with you actually liking birds. Not surprisingly, bird people have a tendency to not just welcome wild birds into their garden, but to actively encourage…
Read MoreStaying One Step Ahead Of An Escape Artist Bird
Have you ever sat back and thought that you had everything under control and that you’re doing pretty well with your birds? Thought that your flock is happily occupied, playing with foraging toys, enjoying their amazing diet while rattling off their extensive vocabularies at each other? Thought that while they were busy in their respective…
Read MorePsycho Branch Week – Using Foliage With Your Birds
It was like Christmas for my birds at my place last week. It was what I fondly refer to as “Psychotic branch week”. It’s usually an annual event, although sometimes it happens twice a year. It’s not planned (I wish it was) and it isn’t consistently at the same time of year. It’s not general…
Read MoreMacaw With Psittacosis
My Blue and Gold Macaw named Fid joined my flock back in February this year. He went through the standard ‘new bird’ vet consultation and was diagnosed with psittacosis and an assortment of other much more minor problems. When I last wrote about him, Fid’s was health was steadily improving and I’d finally solved the…
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