How to Train a Parrot : Why to Avoid Punishing Parrots

[Syphon559]

How come the only thing I can understand from them is "um" and the fact that's half the things they say

[isabelle2468100]

my parrolet was being nice then i gave her a bath now shes being mean what do i do?

[loveisthebest21]

What was the african grey doing while it was flapping its wings while staying in one spot

[MagicManSam1984]

HiI've got a 14 week old African Grey a few days ago and I'm trying some basic training, was just wondering if you could offer some advice please. For starters he won't stay on the perch i have outside of the cage, he just wants to fly off and grab hold of picture frames etc- and secondly he won't take treats, and when he does he just drops them. I'm being patient but if you have any initial advice- If you could email me on snh_6@hotmail.com I would be very grateful. Many thanks, Sam

[marius1309]

Thanx for this video :) i have a african grey jaco ;)

[audrabrowne]

To zucatsr125: if there is any question of whether or not you can devote multiple hours a day to a bird, it's probably not the pet for you. While I love all my birds, they are sometimes trying. I know I have happily devoted myself to them "until death do us part" - theirs or mine. Unless you can say that too, don't get a bird.

Sorry to be Capt. Bringdown, but do please consider the life long commitment to a bird that could become your worst nightmare without a vast commitment from you.

[shnewsman]

omg what happened to the poor thing behind you?

[Hallgren95]

My father boguht a parrot around 20 years ago, 10 years ago he gave away it because he didn't got time for it, 4 years later he got it back and the parrot was tame with him as when he bought it.

All though he changed, because the kids in the family where teasing with it, scarying it so now , it doesen't like kids, she try to bite them as soon as they are in same room , but with grown up people which she never met shes really tame on first eyecast.

[hello229824]

just because you put a blanket over the cage doesnt mean it is a harsh punishment! it just means for the bird to stop whatever it is doing!! like if it is screaming!

[CrazyCockatiel]

Okay well thanks for NO help at all. By the way, thats an ugly bird in the background. What happened to all its feathers?

[AshEbNJess]

@CrazyCockatiel . Hi, obviously, you haven't had a lot to do with animals, or how to think like them. The bird girl gave some very valid points. I spose u think how to stop a parrot screaming is to yell "shutup" @ it? (You just joined in it's noisy flock behaviour & it thinks you're wanting attention too, & learned nothing about stopping the behaviour)

[AshEbNJess]

@CrazyCockatiel The "Ugly bird in the background " is an umbrella cockatoo from Indonesia, & many (Esp Larger Parrots) "feather pluck " out of boredom, nervousness, overstimulation, or attention seeking, as most birds have the brain of a 2-5 yr old child & want interesting things happening all the time. Try learning a little before you mouth off. All you just diplayed was your ignorance.

[xraptor099]

@AshEbNJess I know how to make a parrot intersted, make it watch you play video games. Interesting thing happens!!!

[Zukatsr125]

This is just great.

I have thinking of to get a parrot/lovebird.

But i dont know. If I have time to it. I have time to it right now. But maybe not in a couple of months.

Can anybody tell me, How much work it is to have a parrot ? How hard it is to learn it to say some words ?

[KitaDyer]

@Zukatsr125 Parrots are a lot of work. Many compare them to having a 2 year old for the rest of it's life. You must clean their cages, feed them, play with them, excersize them, deal with any problems like biting, train them, clean up any messes they make like ripping apart your couch, deal with screaming, and pretty much devote your life to them. Hope that helps.

[Maryammmm]

Oi. That explains a lot from my lovebird I had when I was a kid. It was quite the biter, drew blood most of the time, and I just kept defending myself from it and never encouraging better behaviour.

[187blackwings]

i like it specially m new on this Field

[TheDarkGypsy]

Negative reinforcement is actually a good thing. For example, if you have a parrot that hates having a cat around and the parrot does a correct behavior while the cat is near, you can take the cat away as a reinforcement because the parrot was still focusing. Negative reinforcement is taking away something an animal doesn't like to increase the likelihood of a behavior. Pressing against the bird's chest to make them step up is a reflex.

[dobedoeyes]

if my macaws act up I show them the gril and barby sauce

[StopFear]

HAHAHA

[sprx25]

They will hold a grudge and strike you down

[laptopnurse]

I just adopted a cockatoo. She lived with an older woman that died and now the bird wants to sit on my mothers lap and snuggle with her. My mom is 91 and is doing remarkably well considering the situation. I don't want to leave my mother alone, but I don't want the bird nipping her accidentally. I've never delt with a bird larger than a nanday.

[BmxJackass]

wow thats cool.... 5/5

[6squared9]

For god's sake, please stop saying "Um" and take a big swallow before you start talking so you don't have to do it all the way through your presentation.

And at least explain why you seemingly have a cockatoo with AIDS (yes I know it's plucked and it did it to itself and it's not really AIDS)

Maybe another accent might be less grating to peoples ears too.

Beautiful grey's though.

[carloska1961]

6square9...for god's sake, why don't you shut up and spare us your stupid comments...this gal is doing a great job without asses like you making dumb comments

[Weefirkin]

negative reinforcement is not a bad thing. It involves removing something that will increase behavior. If one gets pinched repeatedly by a bird, avoidance of the beak (or the bird) will be increased. If one has a headache, taking aspirin will take away the pain...so in future, I will take aspirin to remove head pain.

Negative reinforcement and punishment are not necessarily inclusive at all.

[Torakoun]

Actually, I think your aspirin would be an example of positive reinforcement. Positive means you are adding something, your aspirin, and the reinforcement is the loss of your headache, something good and you liked it.

[militaryqt]

no problem. I find it really strange, though, that she would use him in the videos without stating WHY he is that way. I guess she assumes that people watching this would have a parrot they are trying to train and would have some information on pluckers. It is usually due to some type of stress in their environment, or boredom. The only plucker I have actually seen before did it when his owner was away from home or if his toys changed too drastically at once.

[Synna89]

Militaryqt:

The bird in the background is a cockatoo, and plucking feathers is MUCH more common on them than other parrots. So it doesn't mean that it's bored or anything, some do it for no reason at all.. Just like people biting nails!

[militaryqt]

I know... trust be I probably have a lot more avian handling experience than yourself. If you look about 2 comments below I said that about 3 months ago, what I am saying in the post you replied to is that it is strange they would not explain to their viewers. Good job on replying without reading all the posts though

[nakedbullwinkle]

there is a half naked parrot on that woman's head...that is the most fucked up looking parrot I ever saw and if this was not serious video, I would think it was a joke...

[militaryqt]

This bird is evidentally a plucker... it is fairly common in some birds for many different reasons.

[nakedbullwinkle]

okay...I thought the neighborhood cat had picked the lock to the cage and was making some late night visits...thanks for the info

[Benknowlton]

thanks