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Parrot Training: A Guide to Taming and Gentling Your Avian Companion (Pets)
by: Bonnie Munro Doane |
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- ISBN13: 9780764563270
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Published: 2001-03-13
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Editorial review:
bIn paperback at last — the definitive guide to parrot training./b p Originally published as iThe Pleasure of Their Company: An Owner's Guide to Parrot Training/i, this amply illustrated book is just what parrot owners need to bring up happy, well-behaved pets. You get:ulliHands-on advice from one of the nation's foremost parrot authoritiesliA thorough explanation of "normal" parrot behavior and the benefits of trainingliCoverage of everything from gentling fledglings and basic obedience to potty training, speech, and tricks"/ul
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4 stars. Parrots
The only comment I have is to point out that this title is exactly the same book as the following:
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br /The Pleasures of Their Company: An Owner's Guide to Parrot Training
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br /Different title, different ISBN ... exact same text...
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5 stars. Parrot Training
This is a great book with lots of new ideas. I haven't finished it yet, but I am real excited about teaching my Cockatoo and Sun Conure more manners and ways to be happy in the human world.
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2 stars. Name is Misleading
This book is a very general parrot ownership book. More than HALF of this book is dedicated, not to training, but to generic parrot ownership. Finally, on page 109, you get to the Step Up chapter. PAGE ONE-OH-NINE! In fact, I would say that only 4 chapters out of 12 are actually devoted to training. NONE of this book is as devoted to training, or as in depth, as I would like and never once talks about the recall trick I want to learn.
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br /I do have some very serious issues with this book:
br /The entire chapter on hand feeding is horrible. Hand feeding is a technique that should be taught in person by a trained professional and never attempted by a novice. It can lead to life long emotional problems, malnutrition, burns, and bacterial infections. Most times it ends in tragedy with a dead baby. How this woman could dare put an entire chapter in a book supposedly about TRAINING! makes me angry.
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br /On top of that, whether to clip the wings is a highly contested subject. There's no consensus. So why she keeps insisting, very rudely, that you have to clip is beyond me. She should tell the pros and cons and WHAT THE HECK DOES IT HAVE TO DO IN A BOOK ABOUT TRAINING.
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br /Sure, if you've never owned a parrot, never read a book about parrots, and are ready to give this woman and her cute little drawings a chance... well... don't. There are better books out there.
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5 stars. One of the best
Of all the books on parrots and their behavior I've read, this is one of the best. This book does not waste chapter upon chapter on information specific to one individual species like many "behavior and training" books out there.
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br /I enjoyed reading the real life stories of parrots in this book, which are peppered in among the useful information and training techniques. I read this book before I became a parrot owner and have referred back to it often over the years now that I do have parrots.
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2 stars. Budgie owners beware!
From the introduction given to this book, you get the impression that the author will spend at least some time addressing the peculiarities of the great budgerigar. I was greatly disappointed. Aside from a passing reference that budgies are hardier than some parrot species and that they can indeed learn to talk (both painfully obvious to any budgie owner), there is nothing at all. It is pretty obvious that she has never owned one. The author makes the assumption that, because budgies are parrots, they must be the same as every other kind of parrot that she has owned. And that they are not! This book is filled with misinformation that is thoroughly and completely refuted in other books written specifically for these little birds. For the budgie owner there is no reason at all to buy this book.
br /For owners of other times of parrots, I would consider looking elsewhere. The book is filled to the brim with preachy, top-of-the-soapbox lectures that are uninteresting, redundant, and obnoxious. If you actually made it through the first few chapters, which outlined in detail what a bad person you are for wanting to own a parrot in the first place, to the chapter where training is actually addressed, you might be disappointed to learn that it consists of only getting your bird to come to your hand from the t-stand, from inside and from on top of the cage (my budgie could do that after about a day!). Want to know the secret of getting your bird to talk? Just repeat the same word to it twice a day for ten minutes.
br /All of the essential information could be put on a simple print out of a few pages, and I would be greatly surprised if you couldn't find it after a few minutes searching on the internet.
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