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homebird
Flier
Joined: 09 Apr 2006
Posts: 502
Location: Toronto, Canada |
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Just hanging out beside the cage & chatting & not looking directly at the bird all the time, will help his nervousness. Use slow and careful hand movements & stop as soon as they appear to be frightened.
fear is what you're dealing with.
~ all the advice so far is great. I hope that you will see good results soon - but sometimes these things can take a very long time. So try & prepare yourself. I've found my own homepage & diaries/journals in particular to be very helpful - when i look back i can see all the changes that have occurred - it helps on the bad days.
I was just given some amazing links on bird training & behavior - really it about human training & behavior, as we are theones who must change the way w do things around birds. They are wild animals & never will be like a cat or a dog - who in many cases have been bred for centuries to tolerate our ways.
here are the links:
http://www.naturalencounters.c.....aqs.html#1
http://www.africangreys.com/ar.....aster.html
 hope you have the time & energy to read them. I have them in my fav. links under training. |
Friday September 7, 2007 8:06 pm |
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sqwarky
Flutterer
Joined: 13 Jul 2007
Posts: 159
Location: UK, Brighton |
thanks for the links  , all the advice everyone has given has been sooooo helpful and i thank you all. with all the training i have been doing i have already seen amazing changes in squarky and myself lol, he is WAY calmer now and is less jumpy. im prepared to put all my time and energy in to squarky and it dosnt matter if it takes 10 years i'll never stop trying. i love him to much to let him down and i dont know what i'd do without him. thanks for all the help everyone it means alot to me Tiff. |
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Sunday September 9, 2007 2:59 pm |
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homebird
Flier
Joined: 09 Apr 2006
Posts: 502
Location: Toronto, Canada |
That's wonderful news! - so happy the training has gone well.
I find when my guys are driving me a bit mad - it pays to go back to the basics & ask others for help. I often forget some of the most obvious things & wonder why.
The best training aid is to just hang out with your guys & ask nothing from them. They will pester you in no time for attention.
Learning body language of your birds is eventually second nature.
Don't forget that special toy or food - it really helps get them to do what you want.
Hope you have lots of fun stories to share & photos, now things are getting better. |
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Monday September 10, 2007 6:19 pm |
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