Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 30, 2009
Normally my female galah, Bondi, is the best at everything out of out entire flock. But man, this hula hoop flight training is not her favorite thing in the world…
She was doing really great for a while, as you can see in the video below:
But the further I got back from [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 29, 2009
I just think this video if the cutest thing ever. This is a client’s bird (John) it’s a mitred conure named Ditto playing “peek a boo” with his loving owner!
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 28, 2009
It can be pretty confusing for any bird to go from a metal cage to a plexi glass cage, even if only part of the cage is plexi glass. It is so confusing to a bird who has never been in one before and I can’t tell you how many times [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 26, 2009
Photo by Dave
Location: Orlando, FL
Eating pasta: Hyacinth “Hymie”
I had company for 10 days this month and it was sort of… crazy. Fitting in time for Hymie was harder in those ten days but I did have some great progress. I got him to eat three new foods!
They are:
Plain penne pasta
Oatmeal
Creamed corn
I was eating oatmeal one [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 25, 2009
A lot of parrot owners tend to cringe at the thought of getting their bird on some sort of “diet”. They would prefer their bird perform tricks and things on cue if they WANT to…
Well, good luck getting your bird to do much.
A training diet is neccessary if you care about results and making the [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 24, 2009
I don’t quite think people understand what it means to respect your bird, but it is so so so so SO so so… important. Honestly, if you simply show your bird some respect, he will respect you right back and start to like you.
To prove this, I am going to show you a video of [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 23, 2009
Comet, my camelot macaw, got his newest tricks down! It was only a few days later but took me a while to post this, though it has been on you tube a while. I’m slower on here…
Check him out showing off his wave and spinning skillz!
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 22, 2009
Photo by Dave
Location: Sagle, ID
In photo: African Grey “Cressi”, Galahs “Bondi” & “Bandit”
This morning I went to work and found an email from Greg Frewin, a client we trained two blue and gold macaws for (Merlin and Mika) wondering if Aves Internationl parrot website was mine because my photos were all over it. Guess what? [...]
Posted by: Jamieleigh on: June 21, 2009
Do you ever feel outsmarted by your bird?
I think it’s pretty common for us bird owners.
