Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion
Autor Bonnie Munro Doaneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2001
- Hands–on advice from one of the nation′s foremost parrot authorities
- A thorough explanation of "normal" parrot behavior and the benefits of training
- Coverage of everything from gentling fledglings and basic obedience to potty training, speech, and tricks"
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780764563270
ISBN-10: 0764563270
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 161 x 228 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Howell (TP)
Colecția John Wiley &Sons
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
ISBN-10: 0764563270
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 161 x 228 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Howell (TP)
Colecția John Wiley &Sons
Locul publicării:Hoboken, United States
Descriere
Making the Most of a Good Thing
Sharing your home and life with a pet bird from the parrot family can be a joy that must be experienced to be appreciated. Whether your parrot pal is a lordly macaw, a tiny budgie or any of the beautiful Amazons, African greys, cockatoos or other beloved species in between, life can be beautiful when communication works. And that is what Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion can do for the relationship. This definitive guide discusses:
Sharing your home and life with a pet bird from the parrot family can be a joy that must be experienced to be appreciated. Whether your parrot pal is a lordly macaw, a tiny budgie or any of the beautiful Amazons, African greys, cockatoos or other beloved species in between, life can be beautiful when communication works. And that is what Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion can do for the relationship. This definitive guide discusses:
- The reasons for training a parrot
- How an owner′s behavior influences training results
- Working with baby birds and weanlings
- Three basic obedience skills
- Training techniques for adult parrots
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Making the Most of a Good Thing
Sharing your home and life with a pet bird from the parrot family can be a joy that must be experienced to be appreciated. Whether your parrot pal is a lordly macaw, a tiny budgie or any of the beautiful Amazons, African greys, cockatoos or other beloved species in between, life can be beautiful when communication works. And that is what Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion can do for the relationship. This definitive guide discusses:
Sharing your home and life with a pet bird from the parrot family can be a joy that must be experienced to be appreciated. Whether your parrot pal is a lordly macaw, a tiny budgie or any of the beautiful Amazons, African greys, cockatoos or other beloved species in between, life can be beautiful when communication works. And that is what Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion can do for the relationship. This definitive guide discusses:
- The reasons for training a parrot
- How an owner′s behavior influences training results
- Working with baby birds and weanlings
- Three basic obedience skills
- Training techniques for adult parrots
Cuprins
1. Why Train Your Parrot?
2. Normal Parrot Behavior
3. Owner Behavior and Parrot Training.
4. The Weanling.
5. The Three Basic Obedience Skills.
6. Training the Adult Parrot.
7. Bringing Up Baby.
8. Potty Training.
9. Speech Training.
10. Trick Training.
11. Playing with Your Parrot.
12. In Conclusion.
Index.
2. Normal Parrot Behavior
3. Owner Behavior and Parrot Training.
4. The Weanling.
5. The Three Basic Obedience Skills.
6. Training the Adult Parrot.
7. Bringing Up Baby.
8. Potty Training.
9. Speech Training.
10. Trick Training.
11. Playing with Your Parrot.
12. In Conclusion.
Index.
Notă biografică
BONNIE MUNRO DOANE, RN, BSN, MSN, has worked with parrots for nearly twenty years. As both pet owner and breeder, she has wide experience in the areas of parrot behavior and behavioral problems, parrot husbandry, nutrition, breeding and rearing of many species of parrot chicks. Ms. Doane has been a member of the Association of Avian Veterinarians since 1987.