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Getting a Vocal Behavior on Cue — The Video

January 2, 2009 – 12:56 pm

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Dogs & Parrots – Some Training Tips

December 29, 2008 – 6:00 am

I occasionally have a foster dog come through my house and this means that I have to consider how to immediately train a dog not to eat the parrots. I’m a Brittany spaniel person so this means my dogs are pretty keen on birds. When one of my fosters was relentless about the parrot cages [...]

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How Do You Train that? Part II

December 26, 2008 – 10:43 am

JoJo has a grey who amuses himself by grunting with exertion when she bends over to pick something up off the floor. JoJo didn’t plan on teaching her parrot to do this, but hey, it’s kind of funny. Why not get it on a verbal cue? Okay, lets say you want to get your parrot [...]

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How Do You Train That?! – Part One

December 22, 2008 – 2:55 pm

Getting vocal behaviors on cue is one of my favorite things to train. Perhaps its because I’m pretty quiet and poised (brooding and intense if you ask those who work with me) and making noise with a parrot gives me an opportunity to cut loose in private. Training vocal behavior on cue requires teaching the sound [...]

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